As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest published posts on the front page, unless you specify a page as a main page.
In a previously published post, we also explain how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent post.
Regardless of your choice to have blog posts on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of published blog posts to show on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’4’, ’10’ etc.)
Your WP website will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have set, even if your site contains more posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
The ability to set the number of posts will display on your web site has a number of practical applications.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent post item you have published. This is useful for example, if you are promoting a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a quarterly 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 is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of posts that you want to display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to easily set how many blog post entries you want to display on your WordPress blog.
Setting The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog
WordPress allows you to choose how many posts you want to have showing on the blog page of your website.
The number of posts you would like to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Choose 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.
To set the number of posts you want to display on your blog page website, go to the WP admin menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Modifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Main Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the front page shows your most recent blog posts, then edit your settings 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 items you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings…
Changing The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your latest published post items 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 blog post entries that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see 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 published posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page of your WordPress web site.
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