As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent post entries on the home page, unless you specify a page as the main page.
In a previous tutorial, we have also covered how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest blog post entries.
Whether you choose to have blog posts on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to appear on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’4’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress website will then display your newest blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your website contains more posts than the number set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of blog posts will display on your blog page can be useful.
For example, you can display only the latest entry you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you promote a different expiring 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 weekly social page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of posts to show on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to change the number of posts you want to show on your blog page.
How To Set The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many blog post entries you would like to have displaying on the blog page.
How many entries you want displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of items displayed on your blog page.
To set the number of published blog post entries you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your website, go to your WordPress admin menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts On Your Main Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the home page shows your latest published blog items, 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 entries you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done…
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the home page is a fixed page and your newest blog posts 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 items that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see your most recent published articles showing either on your home 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 to display on the blog page of your WordPress web site.
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