As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent published content on the front page, unless you fix a page as a static front page.

In another post, we also cover how to create a WordPress blog page to show your most recent post.

Whether you choose to have your most recent published articles on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of posts to show on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’5’, ’10’ etc.)

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

The ability to specify how many blog posts display on your WordPress site can be very useful.

For example, you can display only the latest post item you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate page for updates and announcements, etc.

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

Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts that you want to show on main blog page.

In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily change how many posts will display on your site’s blog page.

How To Change The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your Blog Page

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

How many entries you would like to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …

Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of items displayed on your blog page.

To specify the number of posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your WP site, click on Settings > Reading from your WordPress navigation menu …

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

How To Modify The Number Of Posts On The Home Page

If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your latest published 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 blog post entries that you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
3. Click the Save Changes button when done…

How To Edit The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page

If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page displays a fixed page and your most recent post entries show up on a separate blog page, then edit your settings 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 entries you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
3. Click on Save Changes when finished …

Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your most recent published articles displayed either on your front 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:

• How To Use WordPress Post Excerpts And Post Previews

Congratulations! Now you know how to set the number of published blog post entries you would like displayed on the blog page of your WordPress web site.

Related Posts

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

• How To Make Any Page Of Your Choice Become The Home Page Of Your WordPress Site
• How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Posts In WordPress

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