As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest post entries on the home page, unless you set a specific page as your home page.
In a separate post, we have also covered how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog post entries.
Regardless of your choice to have blog posts on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of blog posts to show up on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display recently published blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your WP web site contains more blog posts than the number of items set to display …
Having the ability to set how many blog posts display on your WordPress site is useful.
For example, you can display only the most recent blog post you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you want to send your readers to a different expiring offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a weekly team page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great 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 specify the number of blog posts to display on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to set how many blog post entries will show on your WordPress blog.
How To Specify The Number Of Blog Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many published blog post entries you would like listed on the blog page of your site.
How many blog posts you want displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed.
To specify how many published blog post entries you want listed on your blog page web site, choose Settings > Reading from your WP dashboard menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts Showing On The Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the home page shows your latest 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 blog post entries that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
Changing The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your newest post entries 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 items that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog post entries displayed 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 change the amount of blog posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page.
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