As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest blog posts on the main page, unless you fix a page as your home page.
In a previous tutorial, we also address how to create a blog page to display your latest blog post entries.
Regardless of your choice to have your most recent published articles on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of blog posts to appear on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’6’, ’10’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your WP site contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
The ability to specify the number of posts display on your WordPress site has a number of uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post you have published. This can be handy for example, if you are promoting a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a weekly community page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts that you want to display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily change the number of blog post entries will show on your site’s blog page.
Setting The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many published posts you want to display on the blog page of your website.
How many blog posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Pick 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 items displayed.
To set the number of blog post entries you want to have showing on the blog page of your web site, go to the WordPress dashboard menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts Showing On The Front Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your latest 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 post items you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your most recent published entries display 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 blog post items that you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog post entries displayed either on your main 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 displayed on the blog page.
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