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I have a good reason for this, I’m not trying to be difficult:)

I would like to display the entry number next to each post (this number will be different than the entry_id).

So let’s say I have a weblog called ‘jokes’ and I have 20 entries in that weblog. I’d like to display the number 20 next to the latest entry and 1 next to the oldest. I’d like to do this on single entry pages as well as multi-entry pages.

Ideally, I’d also like to number all entries across all weblogs in certain situations (again, this number would be different than the entry_id).

Any thoughts on how I could do this?

Quick answer - you can use the {total_entries} and {count} variables to create these….

Wouldn’t {count} always return 1 on a single entry page?

Why don’t you just create a new custom field and put the value in there? It obviously won’t auto increment and you’ll have to manually insert the number, but it’s the easiest way I can think of to retrieve a number on a single page.

I was hoping to avoid that:) I’ll do it if I have to, but I’d have to go back through almost a thousand entries and add the value.

I’ll do it if that’s what it takes, I was just hoping there was another way to go about it.