Change Pagination of Images and Posts

Alkaline lets you paginate images and posts however you choose, regardless of the theme you’re using. Let’s take a look at the page() method of the Find classes, the method works the same for both images and posts.

Let’s open index.php, you should see a line like this:

$image_ids->page(null, 12, 1);

This tells the Find object to automatically determine the page (null), display 12 images per page (12), and to display 1 image on the first page (1). You can change these values and save/upload the file to observe the changes to your Web site. Here are a few examples:

Images

Auto-determine the page number with 25 images on every page:

$image_ids->page(null, 25);

Show page one with all the images (here, 0 is infinity):

$image_ids->page(1, 0);

Posts

Auto-determine the page number, show 25 posts on the first page, and 10 on each subsequent page:

$post_ids->page(null, 25);

Force to show the second page (maybe as a widget of “recent posts on the next page” on your home page) with 10 posts:

$post_ids->page(2, 10);