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Hi,

So I’m outputting a list of articles from a channel, but on page 1 I want to show 9 articles with a unique style on the first article. Then on all following pages I want to show only 8 articles.  Anyone know f this is possible?

Cheers

George

The only solution that leaps to mind, without getting into PHP is something like this:

{if segment_1 == "blog"}
<!-- this is just an example - just wrap a conditional around this one that would have it only display on the main list view page -->
{exp:channel:entries channel="your_channel" limit="1" disable="member_data" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="no"}
<!-- your code here -->
{/exp:channel:entries}
{/if}

{exp:channel:entries channel="your_channel" offset="1" limit="8" disable="member_data" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="yes"}
<!-- your code here -->

<!-- your pagination code here -->
{/exp:channel:entries}

Not sure that’s the best way to handle it, but I couldn’t think of a way to have 9 on the first page and only 8 on the second page within the same entries loop.  But perhaps someone else will chime in with another option.

Thanks John, I think that has done the trick, all though it was the conditional on that first loop that was throwing me. Ended up using the following…

{if segment_2 == "" OR segment_2 == "P0" }
<!—first loop with limit=“1” here—>
{/if}

The reason for this was that if you hit the previous button after going to page 2 it was adding P0 into the URL after blog/

Cheers

George

Ah, yes I hadn’t thought about the user backing up - you’re right. Glad to hear you have it sorted.