As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent published content on the main page, unless you specify a page as your home page.
In a separate tutorial, we’ve also addressed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog post entries.
Whether you choose to make your most recent published articles on your main page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your 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 WordPress web site contains more posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Being able to set the number of post items display on your web site is useful.
For example, you can display only the latest single post you have published. This is useful for example, if you promote 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 quarterly office page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts to display on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify the number of blog posts to show on your site’s blog page.
Specifying The Number Of Blog Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many blog posts you would like displayed on the blog page.
How many blog posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: We recommend selecting 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 posts displayed on your blog page.
To set how many blog post entries you would like displayed on your site’s blog page site, select Settings > Reading from your WP navigation menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings section as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts On The Home Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your newest posts, 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 items that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings…
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page displays a fixed page and your newest post entries show up on a separate blog page, then edit your settings 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 blog posts you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see blog post entries displayed either on your main 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 number of published blog post entries you would like displayed on the blog page of your WordPress web site.
Related Posts
If you are a WordPress newbie, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:
- How To Set A Page In WordPress As A Static Home Page
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Blog Post Entries In WordPress
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