As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest posts on the main page, unless you set a specific page as a main page.
In a previously published article, we also discussed how to create a WordPress blog page to show your most recent published content.
Regardless of your choice to make your most recent published articles on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog posts to show on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’6’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display recently published content on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your WordPress website or blog contains more blog posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
The ability to specify how many posts display on your blog page is useful.
For example, you can display only the most recent post you have published. This can be useful for example, if you promote 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 office page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of posts to display on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily set how many blog post entries to show up on your blog page.
How To Set The Number Of Post Entries To Display On Your Blog
WordPress lets you specify how many posts you want to show on the blog page.
How many entries you would like displayed 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 number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of published blog posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your WP web site, select Settings > Reading from the WordPress admin menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings panel as per the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts On Your Main Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the front page shows your newest blog posts, then set your options 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 post entries that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Editing The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your newest blog posts 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 blog post entries that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see blog posts displayed 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 posts you want listed on the blog page of your website.
Related Posts
If you are learning how to use WordPress, you may also find the following related posts useful:
- How To Make Any Page Be Your Website’s Home Page In WordPress
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Blog Post Entries
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