As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent posts on the front page, unless you set a specific page as a static home page.
In a previously published tutorial, we’ve also addressed how to create a blog page to show your latest published posts.
Regardless of your choice to have recently published post entries appear on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of posts to show on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website will then display your most recent published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your website contains more blog posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Being able to set how many posts can display on your blog page has a number of practical uses.
For example, you can display only the latest blog post you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each month, a ‘deal of the day’ 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 feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts to show on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify how many posts will show up on your blog.
Changing The Number Of Posts To Display On Your Blog
WordPress lets you specify how many published posts you want to display on your blog page.
How many entries you want to display is completely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: 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 specify how many published blog post entries you want to show on the blog page of your site, choose Settings > Reading from your WP dashboard menu …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your most recent 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 items you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done to update your settings…
To Modify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the home page is a fixed page and your latest blog posts 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 that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see your most recent published articles displayed either on your home 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 would like to have displaying on the blog page of your site.
Related Posts
If you are a new WordPress user, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:
- How To Show Any WordPress Page As The Home Page Of Your Web Site
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Post Entries In WordPress
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