As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest blog posts on the main page, unless you fix a page as your home page.
In another tutorial, we have also shown you how to create a blog page to show your latest blog post entries.
Regardless of your choice to make blog posts on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of blog posts to show up on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’4’, ’10’ etc.)
Your WP site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your website or blog contains more blog posts than the number of posts set to display …
Being able to specify the number of blog posts can display on your blog page has a number of practical uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post item that you have published. This is 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 quarterly corporate page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to set the number of blog posts that you want to show on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily specify how many posts to show on your blog page.
How To Set The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog
WordPress lets you specify how many posts you would like to have displaying on your blog page.
How many blog posts you would like displayed 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 raise or lower the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set how many published blog posts you want to show on the blog page of your WP website, select Settings > Reading from the WordPress admin menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
Editing 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 main page displays your most recent post 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 blog post entries you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished…
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your most recent published items 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 items that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see your 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 change the number of blog posts you want to have showing on your WP website’s blog page.
Related Posts
If you are a WordPress newbie, you may also find the following related posts useful:
- How To Set Any Page As Your Website’s Home Page In WordPress
- How To Create A Blog Section 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