As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest posts on the home page, unless you set a specific page as the main page.
In a previously published tutorial, we have also explained how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog post entries.
Regardless of your choice to have display blog post entries on your front page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of posts to show on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’4’, ’10’ etc.)
Your WP site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WordPress 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 blog page has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the latest post item that you have published. This can be useful, 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 your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly office page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to set the number of blog posts to display on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to set the number of blog posts to show on your site’s blog page.
Setting The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog Page
WordPress lets you choose how many blog posts you want displayed on the blog page of your website.
The number of blog posts you want to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
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 items displayed.
To specify the number of published blog posts you would like to have displaying on your blog page site, go to your WP navigation menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page displays your latest post 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 entries that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Editing The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page shows a fixed page and your newest blog posts show up 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 posts you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your latest blog posts showing either on your main 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 amount of blog post entries you want to have showing on your WP website’s blog page.
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