As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest post entries on the front page, unless you set a specific page as your home page.

In a previously published post, we also discuss how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published articles.

Whether you choose to have your blog posts on your main page or your blog page, you can specify the number of items to show on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’4’, ’12’ etc.)

Your WordPress website will then display your most recent published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your WP web site contains more blog posts than the number of items you have set to display …

The ability to set the number of blog post items can display on your site can be useful.

For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single blog post you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different limited-time offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a quarterly team page for updates and announcements, etc.

Or, you can use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …

Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of posts that will display on main blog page.

Let’s show you, then, how to easily set how many blog post entries to show up on your WordPress blog.

Changing The Number Of Posts To Display On Your Blog Page

Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many published blog post entries you want to display on the blog page of your site.

The number of blog posts you want displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …

Note: We recommend that you choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of items displayed.

To set the number of blog posts you want displayed on your website’s blog page web site, go to the WordPress dashboard menu and choose Settings > Reading …

Configure your settings in the Reading Settings panel as shown in the screenshot below:

How To Specify The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Front Page

If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the front page shows your newest post entries, then set your options as shown below:

1. Front page displays: Set this to Your latest posts
2. Blog pages show at most: X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of post entries you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
3. Click the ‘Save’ button when done to update your settings…

To Specify The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page

If you are using your site as a website, where the home page is a fixed page and your latest posts display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings as described below:

1. Front page displays: Set this to A static page, then select Posts page: > your Blog Page from the drop down menu
2. Blog pages show at most: X posts X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of items you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
3. Click on Save Changes when finished …

Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see your most recently published articles showing either on your front 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:

• How To Use WordPress Post Excerpts And Post Previews

Congratulations! Now you know how to change the amount of blog post entries you would like to have showing on the blog page of your website.

Related Posts

If you are learning how to use WordPress, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:

• How To Make Any WordPress Page Be The Home Page Of Your Website
• How To Create A Blog In Your WordPress Site

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