As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest posts on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as your home page.
In a previously published article, we also discussed how to create a blog page to show your latest published entries.
Regardless of your choice to have posts on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of blog posts to display on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’5’, ’10’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your web site contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of blog post items will display on your site is useful.
For example, you can display only the latest blog post item that you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different limited-time offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a monthly office page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of posts that you want to display on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to set how many posts will show on your blog page.
How To Change The Number Of Post Entries To Display On Your Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many blog post entries you would like to have showing on the blog page of your website.
How many posts you would like to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed.
To specify how many published posts you want to display on the blog page site, select Settings > Reading from the WP admin menu …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Home Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the front page shows your newest 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 entries that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
Specifying The Number Of Posts 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 blog items show up 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 post entries you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your blog 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 set the amount of published posts you would like to have showing on the blog page of your website.
Related Posts
If you are a new WordPress user, you may also find the following posts useful:
- How To Make A Specific Page Be The Home Page Of Your WP Site
- How To Create A Blog Section In WordPress
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