As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest posts on the front page, unless you fix a page as your home page.
In a previously published article, we also explain how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest published entries.
Regardless of your choice to have display blog posts on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of blog post entries to show on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’4’, ’15’ etc.)
Your website will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your website or blog contains more posts than the number of items set to display …
Being able to set how many posts will display on your site can be very useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post that you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you want to promote a weekly special, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a weekly corporate page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty 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 will display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to specify the number of blog posts to display on your blog page.
Changing The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your website.
How many entries you want to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of published blog post entries you want listed on the blog page of your WordPress website, go to your WordPress navigation menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Front Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page displays your newest post entries, 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 post entries you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done…
Changing The Number Of Posts On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your most recent post entries show up on a separate blog page, then edit your settings 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 you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see recently published 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 set the amount of published posts you would like to display on the blog page.
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