As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest blog posts on the front page, unless you specify a page as the front page.
In another tutorial, we’ve also shown you how to create a blog page to show your most recent published articles.
Regardless of your choice to have recently published posts display on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of published blog posts to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’5’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your WP website contains more posts than the number of items set to display …
Being able to specify how many posts display on your web site can be very useful.
For example, you can display only the most recent blog post item that you have published. This is useful for example, if you want to promote a different expiring offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a monthly team page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to change the number of blog posts that you want to display on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify the number of blog post entries to show up on your blog.
How To Specify The Number Of Post Entries To Display On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many published blog post entries you want displayed on your site’s blog page.
How many blog posts you would like 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 entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set the number of published posts you want to display on the blog page web site, go to your WP navigation menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings panel as shown in the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Main Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page shows your most recent posts, 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 that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done…
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the front page displays a fixed page and your most recent published blog post entries show up 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 entries that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see blog post entries showing 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 amount of posts you would like listed on your site’s blog page.
Related Posts
If you are a WordPress newbie, you may also find the following related posts useful:
- How To Set Any Page In WordPress As The Static Home Page
- How To Create A Blog In Your WordPress Site
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