Limiting the home page to one (most recent) post

cbmrj777 · #1 Jul 28, 2009, 01:40 PM

URL: http://hoguesandkisses.com/

I want to display only one post on the home page and all other pages (archives, etc.) display 5 posts (or whatever amount I want - just more than 1).

I made a home.php using the index.php file and added this code that I found in the Wordpress.org forums like this:

Code:

<!-- Limit the home page to display only one (the latest) post -->
	<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>

above this:

Code:

<?php /* If there are any posts: */
if (have_posts()) : $bfa_ata['postcount'] == 0; /* Postcount needed for option "XX first posts full posts, rest excerpts" */ ?>

And under Wordpress admin Reading Settings I have it set "Blog pages show at most" 5 posts.

It does exactly what I want: display 1 post on the home page BUT

when I click on the "older entries" link, I see the same 1 (most recent) post. And only 1 post. I want those pages to go to the 5 posts per page display. The archives pages do show 5 posts, though.

I am unsure how to do this...

Thanks for any help!