As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest posts on the front page, unless you specify a page as your main page.
In a previously published article, we also discuss how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent published entries.
Whether you choose to make recently published post entries appear on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of items to display on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’7’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your website contains more posts than the number of posts set to display …
The ability to set how many post items display on your blog page has a number of uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single post you have published. This is useful, if, for example, you promote a different limited-time offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a weekly community page for updates and announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this 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 change the number of blog posts that will display on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to change how many posts you want to display on your blog page.
How To Set The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog
WordPress allows you to specify how many blog post entries you want to display on the blog page of your website.
How many entries you want to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of items displayed on your blog page.
To set how many published blog post entries you want displayed on the blog page site, choose Settings > Reading from your WordPress navigation menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts Showing On The Main Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your most recent 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 items that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your newest published blog posts display 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 you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see posts showing 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 set the amount of published posts you want to have showing on your WordPress website’s blog page.
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