As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent blog posts on the front page, unless you fix a page as the home page.
In a separate article, we also cover how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published entries.
Whether you choose to have your blog posts on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of items to show on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’4’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your WordPress web site contains more blog posts than the number of items you have set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of post items can display on your web site has a number of uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single blog post item you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of blog posts that will show on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to set how many posts you want to show up on your blog page.
Changing The Number Of Blog Posts Displayed On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many published blog post entries you want listed on the blog page of your web site.
The number of posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Pick 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 how many blog post entries you want to show on your website’s blog page web site, select Settings > Reading from the WordPress admin menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the front page shows your most recent post entries, then set your options 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 post items you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Specifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your newest post entries display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings as shown 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 posts you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog post entries showing either on your main 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 set the amount of published blog post entries you would like to display on your site’s blog page.
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