As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest published entries on the home page, unless you set a specific page as the home page.
In a separate article, we’ve also explained how to create a blog page to show your latest published posts.
Whether you choose to have your most recent published articles on your main page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of blog posts to display on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’15’ etc.)
Your WP website will then display recently published post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your web site contains more blog posts than the number of items set to display …
Being able to set the number of blog post items can display on your web site 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 can be handy for example, if you promote a weekly special, 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 corporate page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great 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 posts that will show on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to set how many blog posts to display on your WordPress blog.
Changing The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many blog posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your site.
How many entries you would like displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of items displayed on your blog page.
To set the number of posts you would like to show on your website’s blog page web site, choose Settings > Reading from the WordPress navigation menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings page as shown below:
Modifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your latest 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 blog post entries that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished…
Specifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the front page displays a fixed page and your newest blog posts show up 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 posts that you want displayed – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your most recently published articles displayed either on your home 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 set the number of published blog post entries you want to have showing on the blog page of your WP site.
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