As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent post entries on the main page, unless you set a fixed page as the main page.
In a separate article, we also discussed how to create a blog page to display your most recent published entries.
Whether you choose to make your blog posts on your front page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of published post entries to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’7’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your site contains more posts than the number set to display …
Being able to set the number of blog post items display on your WordPress site has a number of practical uses.
For example, you can display only the latest single blog post that you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you want to send your readers to a different limited-time offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a monthly team page for updates and announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts that you want to display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to specify how many posts to show on your WordPress blog.
Changing The Number Of Blog Posts Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many published blog posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your web site.
How many blog posts you would like to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: We suggest that you choose 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 posts displayed.
To set how many published posts you would like to have displaying on your website’s blog page web site, select Settings > Reading from your WP admin menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
How To Modify The Number Of Posts On Your Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page displays your most recent published blog entries, 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 post items that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished…
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your most recent blog posts display on a separate blog page, then set your options 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 posts that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see blog posts displayed either on your home 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 set the amount of blog posts you want displayed on the blog page of your website.
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