As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest blog posts on the front page, unless you specify a page as a home page.
In another article, we have also shown you how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published content.
Whether you choose to make recently published posts display on your front page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of blog posts to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’5’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WP site will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have set, even if your WP site contains more posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Having the ability to set how many entries can display on your WordPress site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the latest post you have published. This can be useful for example, if you are promoting a different expiring offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a monthly community page for 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, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts to show on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily set how many blog posts you want to show on your blog page.
How To Specify The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress allows you to specify how many published blog post entries you would like listed on your site’s blog page.
The number of entries you would like to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: We suggest 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 items displayed on your blog page.
To set how many blog post entries you want displayed on your blog page website, go to your WordPress navigation menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts On Your Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page shows your newest blog posts, 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 posts that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings…
How To Specify The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the front page is a fixed page and your latest blog posts display 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 to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see your latest blog posts displayed 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 posts you want displayed on the blog page of your WordPress website.
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