As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest post entries on the home page, unless you set a specific page as a static main page.
In a previously published tutorial, we also discussed how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest published articles.
Whether you choose to have recently published post entries display on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of blog post entries to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ’10’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your WordPress site contains more posts than the number of posts set to display …
Being able to specify how many blog posts can display on your site has a number of uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post that you have published. This is useful for example, if you are promoting a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a weekly social 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, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts that will display on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify how many posts to show on your blog.
How To Change The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many published blog post entries you want to display on the blog page of your website.
How many entries you want displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
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 items displayed.
To set the number of blog post entries you would like to have displaying on your blog page website, go to your WP navigation menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings panel as per the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page shows your most recent post entries, 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 that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
To Modify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your latest post entries 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 blog post entries that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your most recently published content showing 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 amount of published blog post entries you want to display on the blog page of your WP site.
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