As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest posts on the main page, unless you fix a page as a home page.
In a separate article, we also discuss how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent blog post entries.
Whether you choose to make your blog posts on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of items to appear on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’7’, ’10’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your website contains more posts than the number of items set to display …
Having the ability to specify the number of blog post items can display on your web site can be useful.
For example, you can display only the latest single entry that you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you want to promote a different limited-time offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts to show on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to specify how many blog posts will show on your blog page.
Setting The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many posts you would like to have showing on your blog page.
How many blog posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of items displayed on your blog page.
To set how many published posts you want listed on the blog page of your web site, click on Settings > Reading from the WP admin menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
How To Modify The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Front Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page shows your newest posts, then set your options as shown below:
- Front page displays: Set this to Your latest posts
- Blog pages show at most: X posts (where ‘X’ is the number of blog post entries that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished to update your settings…
To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your most recent blog posts 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 post items that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see blog posts 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 blog post entries you would like to have displaying on your WP website’s blog page.
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