As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent published posts on the main page, unless you set a fixed page as your main page.
In a previously published tutorial, we’ve also covered how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent published content.
Whether you choose to make blog posts on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of items to show up on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’7’, ’12’ etc.)
Your WordPress website will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your website or blog contains more posts than the number set to display …
The ability to specify how many posts display on your site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the latest single blog post that you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you want to send your readers to a different time-sensitive offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly social page for updates and announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of posts to show on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to set how many blog post entries you want to show on your site’s blog page.
How To Change The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many published posts you would like listed on the blog page of your site.
How many entries you want to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set how many published blog posts you want to have showing on your site’s blog page web site, go to your WP dashboard menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts On The Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page shows your most recent blog posts, then edit your settings 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 posts that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings…
Specifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page displays a fixed page and your latest post entries show up on a separate blog page, then set your options as described 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 that you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see blog post entries showing either on your front 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 posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your website.
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