13th major release of WordPress hit the blogosphere today christened as “Thelonious”. The innumerous features offered would take an entire bible to print and devour. 218 contributors worldwide worked for nearly half a year to accomplish this major feat which is gonna push WordPress to sky high as the best blogging platform ever.
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Pagination is hard to achieve and it’s a well worth time spent to enable this feature on WordPress blogs. At times, we may need to show a set of posts which belong to a particular Category in a single page. This is easy to achieve as we create a new page and embed the following code to display all the posts within a particular category.

<?php query_posts('cat=7&&showposts=10'); ?><br />
<ul><br /><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?><br />
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>
</a></li><br /><?php endwhile;?>

The above code displays 10 recent posts from the Category with an id=7.

Now, what if this particular Category had 30 posts and we wish to display these 30 posts in a count of 10 each on one page each. That is, these 30 pages would come on Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 with first 10 posts on Page 1 and Second set of 10 posts in Page 2 and finally the third set of 10 posts in the Page 3.

Let’s try to achieve it now.

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