As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent post entries on the front page, unless you specify a page as your home page.
In a previously published tutorial, we’ve also covered how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent blog post entries.
Regardless of your choice to make your most recently published content show up on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of published blog posts to show up on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’5’, ’15’ etc.)
Your WordPress website will then display your newest blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your web site contains more posts than the number of items set to display …
Being able to set the number of posts can display on your blog page can be useful.
For example, you can display only the latest post item you have published. This is useful for example, if you want to send your readers to a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly team page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts that you want to display on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify the number of blog post entries to show on your blog page.
Specifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your WordPress Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many blog post entries you would like to show on your site’s blog page.
The number of entries you want to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: We recommend that you select a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of items displayed.
To set how many blog posts you want to have displaying on your website’s blog page site, select Settings > Reading from your WP navigation menu …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Home Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your newest post entries, then edit your settings 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 entries you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished…
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your most recent published post items 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 post entries that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see posts showing 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 change the number of published blog posts you want to have showing on the blog page.
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