As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent published content on the main page, unless you specify a page as a home page.

In a separate post, we also show you how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog post entries.

Regardless of your choice to have recently published articles display on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of posts to display on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’12’ etc.)

Your WordPress site will then display your most recent published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your WP website contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …

Having the ability to specify the number of post items can display on your web site is useful.

For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent entry that you have published. This can be useful for example, if you want to promote a different limited-time offer each month, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate page for 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 set the number of posts that will show on main blog page.

Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to specify the number of blog post entries to show up on your blog.

How To Change The Number Of Blog Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog Page

Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many published blog post entries you want to display on your website’s blog page.

The number of posts you want to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …

Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of items displayed.

To set how many published blog post entries you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your WordPress website, go to your WordPress dashboard menu and choose Settings > Reading …

Configure the settings in the Reading Settings section as shown below:

Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Home Page

If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your newest posts, then edit your settings as shown below:

1. Front page displays: Set this to Your latest posts
2. Blog pages show at most: X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of blog post items you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
3. Click the ‘Save’ button when finished…

Changing The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page

If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page displays a fixed page and your most recent post entries display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings as described below:

1. Front page displays: Set this to A static page, then select Posts page: > your Blog Page from the drop down menu
2. Blog pages show at most: X posts X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of items that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
3. Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings …

Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see blog posts showing either on your home 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:

• How To Use WordPress Post Excerpts And Post Previews

Congratulations! Now you know how to change the number of blog post entries you would like to have showing on the blog page of your web site.

Related Posts

If you are new to WordPress, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:

• How To Display Any WordPress Page Of Your Choice As The Home Page Of Your Web Site
• How To Create A Blog Section In Your WordPress Site

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