As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest posts on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as the front page.
In a previous tutorial, we’ve also covered how to create a blog page to display your most recent published entries.
Regardless of your choice to make recently published post entries display on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of published posts to show up on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’7’, ’12’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your website contains more blog posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of posts display on your WordPress site can be very useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent post you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you promote a different time-sensitive offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate page for updates and announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts that you want to show on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to set the number of blog post entries you want to show up on your WordPress blog.
Changing The Number Of Post Entries To Display On Your Blog Page
WordPress allows you to specify how many published blog post entries you want displayed on your site’s blog page.
How many entries you would like displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed.
To set how many published blog post entries you want to have showing on the blog page of your WordPress web site, click on Settings > Reading from the WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings panel as per the screenshot below:
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing 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 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 blog posts you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished…
Modifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your most recent blog posts show up on a separate blog page, then edit your settings as described 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 showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see blog posts displayed 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 number of blog posts you would like to show on the blog page of your WordPress site.
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