Blog + Pagination?

Question

Still new to EE, and am quickly losing my hair trying to get a blog going, and getting it paginated correctly.

The problem I'm having is that the pagination links move in increments of 6, /news/P6, /news/12 etc....

I've tried removing all the code except for the Title and the "Read More..." link, and pagination still has the same issue.

* EDIT *

I'm also looking to have only 6 entries per page, so that the next page will have the next six entries etc... 6 entries are currently showing on the /news page - which is good. The site has something like 40 entries, but I just want to paginate so only six entries show at a time.

* /EDIT *

Any help would be appreciated!

Here is my code:

<ul class="news">
                {exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="6" dynamic="no" orderby="date" sort="desc" paginate="bottom"}
                  {paginate}

                      <p id="pagination">Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}</p>
                    {/paginate}


                            <li>
                                <div class="pic">
                                    {if image !=""}<a href="{url_title_path='news'}"><img src="{image}" alt="{title}" /></a>{/if}
                                </div>
                                <div class="details">
                                    <h5>{title}</h5>
                                    <p>{if "{content:has_excerpt}"}{content:excerpt}{if:else}{content}{/if} 
                                    </p> 
                                    {if video_embed != ""}{video_embed}{/if}
                                     {if slideshow} 
                                    {slideshow limit="10"}<a href="{comment_url_title_auto_path}" style="float:left;">{exp:ce_img:pair src="{url}" max="100" crop="yes"}<img src="{made}" alt="{title}" />{/exp:ce_img:pair}</a>{/slideshow}
                               {/if}
                                    <a href="{comment_url_title_auto_path}" style="clear:all;">Read More...</a>
                                </div>
                            </li>
                {/exp:channel:entries}

                        </ul>

Answer 1

The code you posted is correct for what you're wanting to achieve.

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" limit="6" dynamic="no" orderby="date" sort="desc" paginate="bottom"}

This code will get you 6 entries per pagination page and your pagination URLs will increment by 6 because you have limit="6" set. If you change that to limit="10", you still see 10 entries per page and URLs that increment by 10.

Answer 2

You have a limit="6" so your paginated urls will be in increments of 6. What you have working correctly.

The P6 in the url is basically an offset count so EE knows which entry in the count/order to begin with. P6 will start with entry 7 in your determined order.