As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent blog posts on the home page, unless you fix a page as the main page.
In another tutorial, we also explain how to create a blog page to display your most recent published content.
Regardless of your choice to make posts on your front page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of published post entries to show up on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’7’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have specified, even if your WordPress web site contains more blog posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of blog post items display on your site has a number of practical applications.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post item you have published. This is useful for example, if you 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 weekly community page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of blog posts to display on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to specify how many blog posts you want to display on your blog.
How To Change The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your Blog
WordPress allows you to choose how many published posts you would like to display on your site’s blog page.
The number of blog posts you want displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set the number of posts you want to have displaying on your site’s blog page site, go to the WordPress admin menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts On Your Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page displays your most recent 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 entries that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished…
Modifying The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the front page displays a fixed page and your newest posts show up 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 to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your most recently published post entries displayed 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 posts you would like displayed on the blog page.
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