Limit number of articles shown in block

jakec · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:57 am

Is it possible to limit the number of articles shown in a block.

The feed I am currently showing has about 20 articles in it, but I would like to limit it to the first 5 only.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jakec

kguske · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 4624

Already requested, but this would require changes to block administration. Don't expect that anytime soon. Smile

fkelly · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:18 am

If you are comfortable modding mainfile you can make the following modification down in the headlines function:

Code:

$start = 0;
$end = 10;
foreach($feed->get_items($start,$end) as $item) {

This is around line 1255 in the 2.20.01 distribution. The $end variable will be the maximum number of items read for ALL your feed blocks. This is just a temporary hack until we can modify blocks.php to allow for a separate maximum number of items to be specified for each block as Kguske says.

jakec · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:56 am

Thanks, a simple hack will do, I don't want more than 5 feeds in any of the blocks so that is OK. Very Happy

jakec · Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:26 pm

Cheers that worked a treat. Very Happy