As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest posts on the home page, unless you fix a page as your front page.
In a separate article, we also explain how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog posts.
Whether you choose to make blog posts on your home page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of published post entries to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’5’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website will then display your blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your WordPress website or blog contains more posts than the number of items you have set to display …
Having the ability to set how many posts display on your web site can be very useful.
For example, you can display only the latest blog post that you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you want to promote a different expiring offer each week, 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 community page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is 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.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily change how many blog post entries to display on your blog page.
How To Specify The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many published posts you want to have displaying on your website’s blog page.
The number of blog posts you would like displayed is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: We recommend selecting 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 posts displayed.
To set how many published posts you would like to display on your site’s blog page website, select Settings > Reading from your WP dashboard menu …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts On The Home Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page displays your most recent post entries, 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 entries that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished…
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 shows a fixed page and your latest blog posts show up 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 entries that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see blog posts 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 set the amount of published blog post entries you want to have displaying on the blog page of your WordPress site.
Related Posts
If you are new to WordPress, you may also find the following posts useful:
- How To Set A Page In WordPress As A Static Home Page
- How To Create A Blog Section In Your WordPress Site
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