Modify the front page view of arthemia to show most recent (newest) post as 'headline', next four older posts as 'featured' and the subsequent posts continuing below.
Arthemia normally shows in the Headline section posts assigned to the category Headlines. Featured section shows posts from the category featured. All other posts follow below. So older posts of of the two sections above will disappear as soon there is a new entry.
I modified the index.php of arthemia free version to show your last post in Headline section, the next for older posts are shown in Featured section and even older posts follow below and on subsequent pages.
As with this mod you show 10 posts on the frontpage, you should set the Reading Settings in your Wordpress dashboard to "Blog pages show at most 10 posts"
With this setting pagination is working as it should.
The only modifications in the following code are in lines:
10-12, 23, 30, 76-82
index.php code for normal flow of posts regardless any category:
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php if(!is_paged()) { ?>
<div id="top" class="clearfloat">
<div id="headline">
<img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/headline.png" width="75px" height="21px" alt="" />
<?php $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=1'); //modified
foreach($lastposts as $post) : //modified
setup_postdata($post); $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; //modified ?>
<div class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
<div class="meta">[<?php the_time('j M Y') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comment', 'One Comment', '% Comments');?> | <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>]</div>
<?php $values = get_post_custom_values("Headline");?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/<?php
$values = get_post_custom_values("Image"); echo $values[0]; ?>&w=300&h=275&zc=1&q=100"
alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="left" width="300px" height="275px" /></a>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">Read the full story »</a>
<?php endforeach; //modified ?>
</div>
<div id="featured">
<img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/featured.png" width="72px" height="17px" alt="" />
<?php query_posts("showposts=4&offset=1"); $i = 1; //modified ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="clearfloat">
<?php $values = get_post_custom_values("Image");
if (isset($values[0])) { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/<?php
$values = get_post_custom_values("Image"); echo $values[0]; ?>&w=100&h=65&zc=1&q=100"
alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="left" width="100px" height="65px" /></a>
<?php } ?>
<div class="info"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" class="title"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<div class="meta">[<?php the_time('j M Y') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comment', 'One Comment', '% Comments');?> | <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>]</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</div>
</div>
<div id="middle" class="clearfloat">
<img src="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/wp-content/themes/arthemia/images/category.png" class="clearfloat" alt="" />
<?php $display_categories = array(5,6,7,8,11); $i = 1;
foreach ($display_categories as $category) { ?>
<div id="cat-<?php echo $i; ?>" class="category">
<?php query_posts("showposts=1&cat=$category")?>
<span class="cat_title"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($category);?>"><?php single_cat_title(); ?></a></span>
<a href="<?php echo get_category_link($category);?>"><?php echo category_description($category); ?></a>
</div>
<?php $i++; ?>
<?php } ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<div id="bottom" class="clearfloat">
<div id="front-list">
<?php
$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; // checks the page you are on
$num_of_posts = get_option('posts_per_page'); // gets settings of posts per page in admin - Reading Settings, first page shows 10 posts, so set to 10 in admin - Reading Settings
if ( !is_paged()){
query_posts("paged=$page&offset=5&posts_per_page=5"); // if it is NOT paged show 5 posts with offset of 5 in headline and featured
} else {
query_posts("paged=$page&posts_per_page=$num_of_posts"); } // if it is paged gets pagenumber and settings of posts per page in admin, 10 posts would be best ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div class="clearfloat">
<h3 class=cat_title><?php the_category(', '); ?> »</h3>
<div class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></div>
<div class="meta">[<?php the_time('j M Y') ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('No Comment', 'One Comment', '% Comments');?> | <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?>]</div>
<div class="spoiler">
<?php $values = get_post_custom_values("Image");
if (isset($values[0])) { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
<img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/<?php
$values = get_post_custom_values("Image"); echo $values[0]; ?>&w=150&h=150&zc=1&q=100"
alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="left" width="150px" height="150px" /></a>
<?php } ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<div class="navigation">
<?php if(function_exists('wp_pagenavi')) { wp_pagenavi(); }
else { ?>
<div class="right"><?php next_posts_link('Next Page »') ?></div>
<div class="left"><?php previous_posts_link('« Previous Page') ?></div>
<?php } ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>