As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent post entries on the home page, unless you set a specific page as your main page.
In a previously published article, we have also covered how to create a blog page to display your most recent post.
Regardless of your choice to have posts on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of posts to show up on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’4’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WP site contains more blog posts than the number of posts set to display …
Being able to specify how many post items can display on your WordPress site has a number of uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post item that you have published. This can be handy for example, if you are promoting 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 monthly community page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs 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 your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to set how many posts you want to show on your blog page.
Changing The Number Of Blog Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many posts you want to have displaying on the blog page.
The number of blog posts you would like displayed is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
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 amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify how many published posts you want to have displaying on the blog page of your WordPress website, go to your WP navigation menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Front Page
If you are using your WP 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 post items you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished to update your settings…
To Modify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the front page is a fixed page and your latest post 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 blog posts that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see posts 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 posts you want to have showing on the blog page of your website.
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