As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest post entries on the front page, unless you specify a page as the main page.
In a separate post, we also explain how to create a blog page to show your most recent published content.
Whether you choose to have blog posts on your front page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of published blog post entries to show on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’7’, ’12’ etc.)
Your site will then display your most recently published content on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your site contains more posts than the number of items you have set to display …
Being able to specify the number of posts can display on your web site can be useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent post you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a monthly team page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of blog posts to display on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify the number of blog post entries to display on your blog page.
Changing The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog
WordPress lets you specify how many published blog posts you would like to display on the blog page of your web site.
How many blog posts you want displayed is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of published blog post entries you would like to have showing on the blog page of your WP website, choose Settings > Reading from your WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings page as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Home Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your latest published blog post items, 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 you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished…
Specifying The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your most recent post entries display 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 post items you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see posts showing either on your home page or blog page, as per the settings you have specified …
To learn how to change the length of your post excerpts, see the tutorial below:
Congratulations! Now you know how to set the amount of published blog post entries you would like listed on the blog page of your website.
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