As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest published entries on the front page, unless you fix a page as a front page.
In a separate tutorial, we’ve also shown you how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent post.
Regardless of your choice to have posts on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of blog posts to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’6’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display your most recent published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your WP site contains more posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Being able to set how many post items display on your web site has a number of uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single blog post that you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you promote a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a weekly office 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 change the number of blog posts that you want to display on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to set how many blog posts to display on your site’s blog page.
How To Specify The Number Of Posts To Display On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many blog post entries you want to show on the blog page.
How many posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: We suggest selecting a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of items displayed.
To set the number of posts you want to show on your site’s blog page site, go to the WP navigation menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings screen as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Home Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your most recent blog posts, then set your options 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 items you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings…
Editing The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your latest post entries 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 items that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see posts showing 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 change the amount of posts you want displayed on your site’s blog page.
Related Posts
If you are new to WordPress, you may also find the following posts useful:
- How To Make A Specific Page Become The Home Page Of Your WP Site
- How To Create A Blog Page In WordPress
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"Wow! I never knew there's so much to learn about WordPress! I bought one of the WordPress for Dummies three years ago, such authors need to be on this course!" - Rich Law, Create A Blog Now