As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest blog posts on the home page, unless you fix a page as a static home page.
In another tutorial, we also discussed how to create a blog page to display your most recent published content.
Regardless of your choice to have display blog posts on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of items to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’5’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WP site will then display recently published post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your site contains more blog posts than the number of posts set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of entries will display on your site can be very useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent post you have published. This is handy for example, if you want to send your readers to a weekly special, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a weekly social page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of posts that you want to display on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to set the number of blog posts you want to show up on your WordPress blog.
Changing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many published blog posts you want to display on your website’s blog page.
How many entries you want displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: We recommend choosing 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.
To specify how many blog posts you would like to have showing on the blog page of your WordPress web site, go to your WP navigation menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings section as shown in the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your latest published 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 items that you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished…
Editing The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your newest posts show up on a separate blog page, then set your options 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 items that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see posts showing either on your front 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 posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your WP website.
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