As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent posts on the front page, unless you fix a page as a static main page.
In a previous tutorial, we also address how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest post.
Whether you choose to make blog posts on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of blog posts to appear on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’5’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have specified, even if your site contains more posts than the number you have set to display …
Being able to set the number of blog post items display on your site has a number of practical applications.
For example, you can display only the most recent post you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you want to promote a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly community page for updates and announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog page 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 that you want to display on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to set the number of posts will display on your site’s blog page.
How To Change The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many posts you want displayed on the blog page of your site.
How many blog posts you would like displayed is completely 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 increase or decrease the number of items displayed on your blog page.
To set how many blog post entries you want to show on the blog page of your WordPress web site, click on Settings > Reading from the WordPress navigation menu …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings section as shown below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Showing On The Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your most recent blog posts, then set your options as shown below:
- Front page displays: Set this to Your latest posts
- Blog pages show at most: X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of blog posts that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Editing The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page displays a fixed page and your newest published 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 entries you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your most recently published articles 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 number of published blog posts you want displayed on the blog page of your site.
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