As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest blog posts on the front page, unless you specify a page as a home page.
In a previously published article, we also show you how to create a WordPress blog page to show your most recent post.
Whether you choose to have your blog posts on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of blog posts to show up on these pages (i.e. ’2’, ’6’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your WordPress website contains more posts than the number you have set to display …
The ability to set how many blog post items display on your WordPress site has a number of practical applications.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single entry that you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you want to send your readers to a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a monthly team page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of posts that will display on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to specify the number of posts will show on your site’s blog page.
How To Set The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to specify how many blog post entries you would like listed on your blog page.
How many posts 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 overload 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 specify how many blog posts you want displayed on your site’s blog page site, select Settings > Reading from the WP dashboard menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts On Your Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page displays your latest published blog post items, 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 showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done…
Modifying The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the front page shows a fixed page and your latest post entries show up on a separate blog page, then set your options 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 items you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see blog posts showing either on your home 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 change the amount of published blog posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your WP site.
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