As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent post entries on the front page, unless you specify a page as your main page.
In a separate article, we also discussed how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest blog posts.
Regardless of your choice to have blog post entries on your main page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to show on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’4’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your web site contains more posts than the number of posts set to display …
The ability to set the number of blog posts will display on your site is useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent post item you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you promote a weekly special, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a weekly office page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of posts that you want to show on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to set how many blog posts you want to show up on your site’s blog page.
Specifying The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you choose how many posts you would like to display on the blog page of your web site.
How many posts you want to display is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Select 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 items displayed.
To specify the number of posts you would like to show on the blog page of your web site, click on Settings > Reading from the WP dashboard menu …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts On The Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the front page displays your most recent posts, then set your options as shown 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’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Editing The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the front page is a fixed page and your newest blog posts display 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 displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see your most recently published articles displayed either on your main 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 change the amount of published blog post entries you want displayed on your website’s blog page.
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