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 