As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent posts on the home page, unless you fix a page as a main page.
In a separate tutorial, we’ve also covered how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent post.
Regardless of your choice to have your most recent published articles on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of items to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have specified, even if your site contains more blog posts than the number of items you have set to display …
Having the ability to set how many posts can display on your site is useful.
For example, you can display only the most recent entry that you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you want to send your readers to a different limited-time offer each month, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly office page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can 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, With WordPress you have the flexibility to set the number of posts that will display on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to change how many blog posts to show on your WordPress blog.
How To Specify The Number Of Blog Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many published blog posts you would like to have showing on the blog page of your website.
The number of entries you want displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of blog post entries you want to show on your site’s blog page site, go to your WordPress navigation menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Main Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page displays your latest blog 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 posts that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished…
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your most recent post 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 items that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see posts showing either on your front 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 change the amount of blog post entries you want to show on your site’s blog page.
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