As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent posts on the front page, unless you set a specific page as the home page.
In another article, we’ve also addressed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent published posts.
Whether you choose to make blog post entries on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of blog post entries to display on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’5’, ’12’ etc.)
Your WP site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your web site contains more posts than the number of items set to display …
Being able to specify how many entries will display on your WordPress site has a number of practical applications.
For example, you can display only the latest single post you have published. This can be useful for example, if you promote a different limited-time offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a quarterly team page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts to display on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily set the number of posts will display on your WordPress blog.
How To Change The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog
WordPress allows you to specify how many published posts you want to display on the blog page of your website.
How many posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of posts displayed.
To set the number of blog posts you want to show on your site’s blog page web site, go to the WP navigation menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings panel as shown below:
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Main Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your most recent posts, 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 posts that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
Modifying The Number Of Posts On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the home page is a fixed page and your newest blog posts 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 post items you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see 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 number of blog post entries you want to have showing on the blog page of your site.
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