As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest blog posts on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as your main page.
In a previous post, we’ve also addressed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog posts.
Whether you choose to make your most recently published blog post entries show up on your main page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of blog post entries to show up on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’6’, ’15’ 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 WP site contains more blog posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Having the ability to specify how many blog posts display on your blog page can be useful.
For example, you can display only the latest single blog post item you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different expiring offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a monthly community 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, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts to show on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to change how many posts you want to display on your blog page.
Specifying The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many posts you want to have showing on your blog page.
How many posts you want displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of published posts you would like to have displaying on your blog page web site, go to the WP dashboard menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts On Your Front Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your most recent published content, then set your options as described 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 displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
Specifying The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page displays a fixed page and your latest published content show up on a separate blog page, then set your options as described 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 you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see your most recently published content 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 change the amount of published posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your site.
Related Posts
If you are a new WordPress user, you may also find the following posts useful:
- How To Create A Static Homepage In WordPress
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your WordPress Posts
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