As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest posts on the front page, unless you set a fixed page as a front page.
In another tutorial, we have also explained how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest published posts.
Regardless of your choice to have recently published blog post entries show up on your main page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of published posts to display on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ‘3’, ’10’ etc.)
Your website will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have specified, even if your WP website or blog contains more blog posts than the number of items set to display …
Having the ability to specify the number of blog post items can display on your web site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the most recent blog post item you have published. This can be handy for example, if you 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 weekly team page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty 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 display on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily set how many blog posts to show up on your blog.
How To Change The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many blog post entries you want listed on the blog page of your site.
How many posts you would like displayed is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: We recommend that you select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify how many blog posts you want displayed on the blog page of your WordPress site, click on Settings > Reading from your WordPress navigation menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings section as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Front Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page displays your latest 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 post items that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done…
Specifying The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your most recent published blog entries 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 entries you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see your most recent published articles 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 number of blog post entries you would like to show on the blog page of your WordPress website.
Related Posts
If you are new to WordPress, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:
- How To Make A Page Of Your Choice Be The Home Page Of Your WP Site
- How To Create A Blog Section In WordPress
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