As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent posts on the main page, unless you fix a page as a static main page.

In a previously published article, we have also covered how to create a blog page to show your most recent blog posts.

Regardless of your choice to make display your newest blog posts on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of blog post entries to appear on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’6’, ’12’ etc.)

Your WP website will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your WP website or blog contains more posts than the number you have set to display …

The ability to set how many posts can display on your web site is useful.

For example, you can display only the latest single post you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you want to send your readers to a different limited-time offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a weekly office page for announcements, etc.

You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …

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

In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify the number of blog post entries will display on your blog page.

How To Set The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog Page

WordPress allows you to specify how many published posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your site.

How many entries you want to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …

Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed on your blog page.

To specify how many blog posts you would like to have showing on your website’s blog page site, go to the WordPress admin menu and choose Settings > Reading …

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

Specifying The Number Of Posts On The Front Page

If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the home page displays your newest post entries, then edit your settings as described 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 items that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
3. Click the Save Changes button when done to update your settings…

Modifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page

If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your newest blog posts display on a separate blog page, then set your options as shown 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 blog post items you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
3. Click the Save Changes button when finished …

Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog post entries 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 number of blog posts you would like to have showing on your site’s blog page.

Related Posts

If you are a new WordPress user, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:

• How To Create A Static Home Page In WordPress
• How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Blog Posts In WordPress

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