As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest posts on the main page, unless you set a fixed page as a home page.
In a previously published tutorial, we also explain how to create a blog page to display your latest published content.
Regardless of your choice to make your most recent published articles on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of blog post entries to show up on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’7’, ’10’ etc.)
Your site will then display your most recent published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have specified, even if your WP website or blog contains more posts than the number of items you have set to display …
Having the ability to specify the number of posts will display on your WordPress site can be useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent post item that you have published. This can be 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 upcoming events, set up a monthly social page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of posts to show on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to set the number of posts you want to show on your WordPress blog.
How To Change The Number Of Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many blog posts you want to have showing on your website’s blog page.
How many entries you want to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of posts displayed.
To specify how many published blog post entries you want to show on your website’s blog page website, go to your WordPress dashboard menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings panel as shown in the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page shows your newest 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 blog posts that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings…
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your newest 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 you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your newest blog posts showing either on your main 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 number of published blog posts you would like to display on your WP website’s blog page.
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