Code Sample: Changing the number of posts on the Story Budget

We received a question from Quint Randle about how to customize the number of posts displayed in the Story Budget view of Edit Flow (which is 10 by default), so I thought I’d write up a quick tutorial here. It’s simple, and enabled in Edit Flow by this bit of code.

To increase (or decrease) the number of posts from the default of 10, just add a small code snippet to the functions.php file in your theme. For instance, the following would increase the number of stories shown per category to 20:
[code lang=”php” title=”Change the number of posts displayed on the Story Budget” light=”true”]
add_filter( ‘ef_story_budget_query_limit’, create_function( ”, ‘return 20;’ ) );
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Just modify the ’20’ above to whatever number of posts you’d like to see in the Story Budget view. And voilà!

Of course you could split out the create_function call above to actually use a function that you’ve defined elsewhere in your functions.php file, but unless you’re going to have complicated logic to decide how many posts to display, I don’t see the need for anything beyond that one-liner.

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