As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest published entries on the home page, unless you set a specific page as a front page.
In a separate tutorial, we’ve also addressed how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest published posts.
Whether you choose to make your most recent published articles on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of blog post entries to show up on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WP web site contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
Being able to set the number of posts will display on your WordPress site can be very useful.
For example, you can display only the latest single post item you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you promote a weekly special, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a quarterly team page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to change the number of blog posts that you want to display on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify how many blog post entries to show on your blog.
How To Set The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many published posts you want to display on your site’s blog page.
How many posts you would like to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Pick 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 posts displayed.
To specify how many blog posts you would like to have showing on the blog page of your WordPress website, go to your WP admin menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings panel as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts Showing On The Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page displays your latest posts, then edit your settings 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 post items that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done…
Specifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your newest blog posts display on a separate blog page, then set your options 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 posts that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see blog post entries displayed 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 set the number of published posts you would like listed on the blog page of your website.
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