As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest published content on the main page, unless you fix a page as your front page.
In a separate post, we also show you how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog posts.
Regardless of your choice to have display posts on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog posts to show on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’6’, ’12’ etc.)
Your WordPress website will then display your most recently published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your website or blog contains more blog posts than the number set to display …
The ability to set the number of blog post items display on your blog page is useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent post that you have published. This is handy for example, if you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, 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 is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of posts that you want to display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to change the number of blog post entries will display on your blog.
Specifying The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many blog post entries you would like displayed on your site’s blog page.
The number of posts you would like displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: We suggest that you choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set how many published posts you would like to show on the blog page of your website, choose Settings > Reading from the WordPress admin menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings section as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Home Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home 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 items that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished…
Editing The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the front page displays a fixed page and your newest posts show up 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 post items you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see recently published post entries displayed either on your main 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 want to have displaying on your website’s blog page.
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