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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
2:57 AM
Screw you.
I was mad furious when I found out that I couldn't view my entire January posts from the archive menu at the sidebar. I became even more furious when I realized that some of my other months' posts were missing too, including the ones from December. So say, when I click on 'January 2011' in my archive menu, only the recent posts from that particular month would pop out. If you scroll down to the end, you'll realise that my birthday post, past selling post and other January 2011 posts do not appear. What's the use of an archive sorted by month, if what you see each month are just recent posts of that particular month, and not full posts of that month? AAAHHHH. Freaking pissed off!
I tried editing EVERY single component found in my settings, including the publishing and formatting sections. I tried setting the number of posts per page to 500, but I still couldn't see anything beyond what was intially on my screen; i.e no change. Mish encouraged me to Google on this matter and guess what I found?
AUTO-PAGINATION.
Yes, the root, the cause, the mastermind of this problem. Here's a detailed explanation offered by anonymous from a forum I read online:
"The term "pagination" literally refers to page numbering. The controversial "Auto Pagination" feature refers to a server stabilisation process, which decreases peak load on the servers by limiting the amount of blog content that is served in one blog page (archive retrieval, label retrieval, or main page). AP segments large display pages, and requires the readers to use "Older Posts" / "Newer Posts" links, to view multiple segments of one logical page. No content is lost, and the viewers simply make one click to traverse segment to segment."
In other words, if my page is excessively large (may be due to many reasons, one of which includes the insertion of very large photo sizes in multiple posts in the same month. My stupid birthday post has lots of these 'very large photos'. Damn), segmentation will occur. So, what I CAN do to solve this problem is to include an 'older posts' link at the bottom of my blog page so that the next time I click on the 'January 2011' tab in my archive menu, I can see all the published posts in that month. Only thing is, all the posts will not appear in a single page but rather, in multiple pages or segments, connected by the link at the bottom of the page called 'older posts'.
I spent so much time googling and writing up on this. I think I'll work on the 'older posts' link tomorrow. Goodnight.
