As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent published content on the main page, unless you specify a page as the front page.
In another tutorial, we’ve also addressed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent published articles.
Regardless of your choice to make posts on your main page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to show on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’6’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your website contains more posts than the number set to display …
The ability to specify how many blog posts can display on your blog page can be useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest post item that you have published. This is handy for example, if you want to send your readers to a different expiring offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a monthly team page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page 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 to display on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to specify the number of blog posts to show on your WordPress blog.
How To Change The Number Of Blog Posts Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many blog posts you would like to display on the blog page of your website.
How many posts you would like to display is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: We suggest that you select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of posts displayed.
To specify how many published posts you would like to have showing on the blog page of your WordPress site, click on Settings > Reading from your WP admin menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings panel as per the screenshot below:
Modifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your most recent posts, 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 blog posts that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
Editing The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your newest post entries display 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 posts you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see posts 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 published blog post entries you want to have displaying on your website’s blog page.
Related Posts
If you are a new WordPress user, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:
- How To Make Any Page Of Your Choice Become Your Website’s Home Page In WordPress
- How To Create A Blog In WordPress
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