As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent post entries on the front page, unless you fix a page as your home page.
In a separate post, we also address how to create a WordPress blog page to show your most recent blog post entries.
Whether you choose to have blog posts on your front page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to show on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have set, even if your WordPress website or blog contains more posts than the number of items set to display …
The ability to set how many blog posts display on your blog page has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the most recent entry you have published. This is useful for example, if you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a monthly social page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of blog posts that you want to show on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to set the number of posts to display on your site’s blog page.
Setting The Number Of Post Entries To Display On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many published blog posts you want to have showing on the blog page of your website.
How many blog posts you want to display 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 increase or decrease the amount of items displayed on your blog page.
To set the number of published blog posts you want listed on your website’s blog page web site, go to your WordPress navigation menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings screen as shown in the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed 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 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 post entries that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done…
Editing The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your latest blog posts 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 items you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog post entries displayed either on your home 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 number of blog post entries you would like to display on the blog page of your WordPress website.
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