As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest blog posts on the main page, unless you specify a page as a static home page.
In a previously published article, we’ve also explained how to create a WordPress blog page to show your most recent published articles.
Regardless of your choice to have your most recently published articles appear on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of blog post entries to show up on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’7’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website will then display your most recently published articles on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WP web site contains more blog posts than the number of items set to display …
The ability to specify how many blog post items can display on your WordPress site can be useful.
For example, you can display only the most recent blog post item that you have published. This is handy for example, if you are promoting a different time-sensitive 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 weekly corporate 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 set the number of posts to show on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to change the number of posts will display on your WordPress blog.
How To Specify The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many published posts you would like listed on the blog page of your website.
The number of entries you would like to display is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of items displayed on your blog page.
To set how many blog post entries you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your website, go to the WordPress navigation menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Modifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page displays your latest published blog entries, 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 post items that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Changing The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the home page is a fixed page and your most recent published post items 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 blog post entries that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
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:
Congratulations! Now you know how to set the number of published posts you want to have displaying on the blog page.
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