As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest posts on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as the home page.
In a previously published tutorial, we also cover how to create a blog page to display your latest published entries.
Whether you choose to make posts on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of items to display on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’6’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display your most recently published blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your website contains more blog posts than the number of posts set to display …
Being able to set the number of blog posts display on your site is useful.
For example, you can display only the latest single post you have published. This can be handy for example, if you promote a different limited-time offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate 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 set the number of blog posts that will show on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily set how many posts will display on your blog.
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your WordPress Blog
WordPress lets you choose how many blog posts you would like to have showing on the blog page of your site.
How many blog posts you want displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: We recommend selecting a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of posts you want listed on the blog page of your web site, select Settings > Reading from your WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings section as shown below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Home Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your most recent posts, then edit your settings as described 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 that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
Modifying The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your 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 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 blog post entries that you want displayed – i.e. ‘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 post entries 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 change the amount of published blog posts you want displayed on the blog page of your WordPress web site.
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