Custom Posts Per Page
One problem I recently ran into with Above The Fold, was that for category pages, I wanted to display ALL items in that category on the category page – but on the home page – I wanted to display just the last 8 added items.
I was going to start writing a hack or plugin to do this – but as it turns out – there's already one that does it:
Custom Posts Per Page
[thanks to Sam for the link]
I've been finding that A LOT of things I can ever think of to do with WordPress – 99.9% of the time – someone has already written a plugin or a hack to do it. It's really quite awesome 