As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent posts on the home page, unless you set a specific page as the main page.
In a separate post, we’ve also shown you how to create a blog page to display your most recent published posts.
Whether you choose to have your most recent published articles on your front page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to show up on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’15’ etc.)
Your website will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your website contains more posts than the number of items you have set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of posts will display on your WordPress site can be useful.
For example, you can display only the latest entry that you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you are promoting a different expiring offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a quarterly community page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of posts that you want to display on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily change how many posts to show up on your WordPress blog.
Setting The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many blog posts you want to have showing on the blog page of your web site.
How many entries you want to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: We suggest selecting a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed.
To set how many blog posts you want to have displaying on your site’s blog page web site, go to the WP admin menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings panel as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Home Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page shows your newest 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 post items you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your most recent published blog 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 posts that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your most recently published articles displayed either on your main 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 blog posts you want listed on the blog page.
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