As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest blog posts on the main page, unless you set a fixed page as a home page.
In a separate tutorial, we’ve also addressed how to create a blog page to display your most recent post.
Regardless of your choice to have your most recently published posts display on your front page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of items to show up on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’6’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have set, even if your WP web site contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
Being able to specify the number of post items can display on your WordPress site can be useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest post item that you have published. This can be useful for example, if you promote a different expiring offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly social page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts that will display on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to change how many posts to display on your blog page.
How To Specify The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many blog posts you would like to show on your site’s blog page.
The number of posts you want displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set how many published blog posts you want to display on the blog page of your site, go to your WordPress dashboard menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings panel as shown below:
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On The Home Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page shows your newest post entries, 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 posts that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your newest published content 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 post items that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see posts displayed 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 change the amount of blog posts you would like to have displaying on your WordPress website’s blog page.
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