As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent published content on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as the home page.
In another post, we’ve also covered how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published content.
Regardless of your choice to make posts on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of published posts to show up on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’4’, ’15’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your WordPress web site contains more posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Having the ability to specify the number of entries will display on your WordPress site can be useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest post item you have published. This can be useful for example, if you promote a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to specify the number of posts to display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily set how many blog post entries to show up on your blog.
Changing The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your Blog
WordPress lets you specify how many blog post entries you would like displayed on your website’s blog page.
How many blog posts you would like displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of items displayed.
To specify how many published blog post entries you want to display on the blog page website, go to your WP navigation menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts Showing 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 most recent blog posts, then set your options 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 blog posts you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Modifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page displays a fixed page and your latest posts display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings as described 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 showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your most recent 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 amount of published posts you would like to show on your site’s blog page.
Related Posts
If you are a WordPress newbie, you may also find the following posts useful:
- How To Make Any Page Be The Site’s Home Page In WordPress
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Posts
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