As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest post entries on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as the main page.
In another article, we also discussed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published posts.
Regardless of your choice to make display your most recently published articles on your front page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of items to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ‘3’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your web site contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
Being able to specify how many posts display on your site can be useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single blog post item that you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you promote a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a weekly team page for updates and 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 may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of posts to display on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily specify how many blog posts you want to show up on your WordPress blog.
Setting The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your Blog
WordPress allows you to choose how many published blog post entries you want to display on your blog page.
How many entries you would like to display is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set how many blog posts you want to show on your site’s blog page website, go to your WP dashboard menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts On The Home Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page shows your latest blog posts, 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 posts that you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done…
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your newest published blog post entries show up on a separate blog page, then edit your settings 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 posts that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your latest blog 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 amount of published blog post entries you want listed on the blog page of your WP site.
Related Posts
If you are a WordPress newbie, you may also find the following related posts useful:
- How To Make A WordPress Page Your Static Front Page
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Blog Posts
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