Why there are no pagers of the Summary block?

Hello,

I am using v7.1. We have about 135 news items that I am collecting in blog format. On the News page I am using a Summary block to display the first 10 news items out of the 135. The problem is, there's no pager associated with the Summary block so it's not possible to page through the entire news releases. Why not?

To make things even worse, the Summary block can only display a list of max 30 items. WHY!? Ever come across a blog that has more than 30 entries?

How can I overcome the shortcomings of the Summary block (eg displaying more than 30 items and using a pager)? Is there another solution you recommend for a lot of blog/news posts?

Thanks.

Summary blocks go on a page but are not pages themselves so pagination. But there is a work-a-round. Let me address the 30-item limit first. 

You can chain summary blocks together on the same page. You can have as many items as you want by setting the blocks to 30 items and filtering by category. It takes a bit of time to set up and then becomes simple to add a post to. Give your first 30 posts a cat or tag name or number that you can keep up with like"First 30" then give posts 31-60 "Second 30" and so on. Or you can be more specific and group your posts by news subject. The blocks don't have to have 30 entries and still put them on one page.  You can hide the cats if you wish. The actual blog where the posts reside will go into the unlinked section of your site. The summary block page will now act as your front-facing blog page.  You will need to swap the URL slugs.

Pagination:

You can have pagination if you use a second blog full of summary blocks as opposed to a standard page or section.  I have over 80 posts on one long scrolling page on my site. I also have some photography lessons grouped in their own block tied to the Nav bar but they are still part of the main page. Summary blocks are very versatile, and when combined in a second blog can be accessed by a menu.

 You can see my layout here. Click on any group title to see the pagination. Click on an individual item to go to the actual post of course. Check out the pull-down subject menu as well.  This design works for both 7.0 and 7.1.  I used Custom CSS to give the summary blocks a unique look that ties in with my picture galleries and my home page.  

https://myrandomviews.com/blogsummary

my random views Home page. 

Hey thanks for the input Derrick! I see what you mean. Unfortunately this will not work, I'd say. I am migrating a site for a client from 7.0 to 7.1. That's in itself is a huge pain already! They used to have all the press releases in a huge, single textbox. I figured I'll make it nicer using the blogs, hooked up to a summary block with a pager. But that sounds way too complicated for them to use. Press releases are constantly being added and they don't want any complicated solutions. They don't have an in-house person so they do everything by themselves. But between running the company and posting news they simply cannot start chaining blocks together and figuring out how all that works.

I told them years ago WP is the way to go, but they didn't listen... Well, bummer. I'll just dump all the press releases as they were before. Just into a single text box that you can scroll for 10 minutes. At least that'll keep clients busy 🙂

Google "lazy load summary" and find Squarewebsites.com plugin and instructions for loading.

They also have a nice filter. And they are helpful with troubleshooting too.