As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest post entries on the main page, unless you specify a page as your home page.
In a previously published tutorial, we also address how to create a blog page to show your latest post.
Regardless of your choice to have recently published blog post entries appear on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to appear on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’6’, ’15’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of 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 set how many entries display on your WordPress site is useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single blog post 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 a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a monthly social page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to set the number of blog posts that will show on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily specify how many posts to show on your site’s blog page.
Changing The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog Page
WordPress allows you to specify how many blog post entries you want to have displaying on the blog page of your website.
How many entries you want displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of items displayed.
To set how many posts you would like displayed on the blog page web site, select Settings > Reading from your WP navigation menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings section as shown below:
Editing 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 shows 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 items that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings…
To Modify 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 newest post entries show up on a separate blog page, then set your options 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 you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see your most recently published articles 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 amount of published blog post entries you would like to have showing on the blog page of your WordPress web site.
Related Posts
If you are new to WordPress, you may also find the following posts useful:
- How To Set A WordPress Page You Want As The Home Page Of Your Website
- How To Create A Blog Section In Your WP Site
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