As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent posts on the home page, unless you fix a page as a static front page.
In a separate post, we also explain how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published posts.
Whether you choose to make blog post entries on your front page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of items to show up on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ’12’ etc.)
Your site will then display your most recently published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your web site contains more posts than the number of posts set to display …
Being able to set how many entries can display on your site has a number of practical uses.
For example, you can display only the latest blog post item you have published. This is handy for example, if you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a weekly office page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of posts that will display on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to change how many blog posts you want to show up on your WordPress blog.
How To Specify The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many published blog post entries you would like to have showing on your site’s blog page.
How many entries you would like displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed.
To set how many published blog post entries you would like to show on the blog page of your website, choose Settings > Reading from your WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings panel as shown below:
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your newest posts, then set your options as described below:
- Front page displays: Set this to Your latest posts
- Blog pages show at most: X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of blog post items that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done…
Specifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your newest blog posts show up on a separate blog page, then edit your settings as shown below:
- Front page displays: Set this to A static page, then select Posts page: > your Blog Page from the drop down menu
- Blog pages show at most: X posts X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of blog post items you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your most recently published content displayed either on your main page or blog page, up to the maximum number of posts you have specified …
To learn how to change the length of your post excerpts, see the tutorial below:
Congratulations! Now you know how to change the amount of published blog posts you want to have displaying on the blog page.
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