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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At times the readers of a blog or website may need to take a print out of the content for offline reading or for providing the same to their parents and elders. At times, it’s a far fetched idea of an independent blogger or a web master to think that the user would go to File ->Print option and take a printout.

It’s an easy one line solution to be added to a wordpress blog to make every post of it arrive with a ‘Print’ option. Let’s see how…
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