As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest published entries on the front page, unless you fix a page as the home page.
In a separate tutorial, we also address how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest post.
Regardless of your choice to make blog posts on your front page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of posts to show on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WP website contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
The ability to specify how many posts display on your blog page has a number of practical applications.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single blog post you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, 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 weekly office page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts to display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily specify how many posts you want to display on your site’s blog page.
Changing The Number Of Blog Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many published blog post entries you want to display on your website’s blog page.
The number of entries you would like to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed.
To specify the number of published posts you would like to have showing on the blog page of your WP site, choose Settings > Reading from your WordPress navigation menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts On Your Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your latest 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 blog post items that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done…
Changing The Number Of Posts On Your 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 display 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 items that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see posts displayed either on your home 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 change the amount of blog posts you want to display on your website’s blog page.
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