As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest published content on the front page, unless you specify a page as the home page.
In a previously published tutorial, we also discuss how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent published articles.
Regardless of your choice to have your blog posts on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of posts to show on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WordPress website or blog contains more posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
The ability to specify the number of post items can display on your web site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the latest blog post item 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 an upcoming event, set up a monthly office page for 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, With WordPress you have the flexibility to change the number of blog posts to show on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to change how many blog posts will show on your blog page.
How To Change The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress allows you to choose how many posts you would like listed on the blog page of your web site.
How many posts you would like to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of items displayed.
To set how many posts you want to display on the blog page of your WP website, click on Settings > Reading from the WP navigation menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings page as shown in the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your most recent post entries, 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 items you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings…
To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your latest published content 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 that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see your latest blog posts displayed 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 set the number of published blog post entries you would like listed on the blog page of your WordPress web site.
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