As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest published entries on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as your front page.
In a previously published post, we also show you how to create a blog page to show your most recent post.
Whether you choose to make blog post entries on your home page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of published blog post entries to show on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’5’, ’15’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display your most recently published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your WordPress website or blog contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of post items will display on your site is useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post that you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you want to send your readers to a different limited-time offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a monthly corporate page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to set the number of posts to show on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify how many blog post entries to show on your WordPress blog.
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog
WordPress lets you specify how many published posts you want to display on your blog page.
How many posts you want displayed is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify how many blog post entries you want to have displaying on your site’s blog page site, go to the WP dashboard menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings screen as shown in the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Front Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page shows your most recent blog posts, 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 post items that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ 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 front page is a fixed page and your newest blog posts display 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 blog post items that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see posts 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 change the amount of posts you want to have displaying on the blog page of your web site.
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