As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest posts on the front page, unless you fix a page as a static main page.
In a separate tutorial, we also discussed how to create a blog page to show your latest published articles.
Regardless of your choice to make posts on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of blog post entries to display on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’15’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your WordPress website contains more blog posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Being able to specify how many entries can display on your web site has a number of uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single post that you have published. This is useful for example, if you want to promote a different limited-time offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a weekly community page for updates and 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, With WordPress you have the flexibility to change the number of posts that will display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily set how many posts will show up on your site’s blog page.
Changing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many blog posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your website.
How many blog posts you want displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: We suggest selecting a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of published blog post entries you would like to show on your site’s blog page site, click on Settings > Reading from the WP navigation menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings panel as per the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts Showing On The Main Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the home page shows your latest 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 post items that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished to update your settings…
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your most recent blog posts display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings 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 Changes button when done …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see blog post entries displayed either on your front 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 posts you want listed on the blog page of your WordPress web site.
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