As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest posts on the main page, unless you fix a page as a home page.
In a previous post, we also discuss how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest post.
Regardless of your choice to make recently published post entries appear on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of posts to appear on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ‘3’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress website will then display your most recently published 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 posts than the number of posts set to display …
The ability to set how many post items will display on your WordPress site can be very useful.
For example, you can display only the latest entry you have published. This is useful for example, if you want to promote a weekly special, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a quarterly team page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to specify the number of posts to display on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to set how many posts will show up on your blog.
Specifying The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you choose how many published posts you would like to have displaying on your website’s blog page.
How many blog posts you want to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: 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 items displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of published blog posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your WordPress web site, select Settings > Reading from your WP admin menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings page as shown below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts 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 newest 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 posts that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done to update your settings…
Modifying The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your latest post entries display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings as shown 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 you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your blog posts showing either on your front 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 change the amount of published posts you would like to show on the blog page.
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