As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest post entries on the front page, unless you specify a page as a static front page.
In another tutorial, we also cover how to create a blog page to show your most recent post.
Regardless of your choice to make display blog posts on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of items to show up on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’5’, ’15’ etc.)
Your WP site will then display your latest blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your WordPress web site contains more posts than the number set to display …
The ability to specify the number of entries can display on your site can be very useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest post item that you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you are promoting a different limited-time 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 corporate page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to change the number of blog posts to show on your blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how easy it is to change how many blog posts you want to show on your blog page.
Specifying The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you specify how many blog posts you want to have displaying on the blog page of your website.
How many blog posts you want to display is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of posts displayed.
To specify how many published blog posts you would like to have displaying on your blog page site, click on Settings > Reading from the WP navigation menu …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On The Front Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your latest blog posts, then edit your settings 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 blog post entries that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done…
To Specify The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your latest blog posts display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings 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 entries that you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see posts showing either on your front 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 posts you would like to have showing on your site’s blog page.
Related Posts
If you are a new WordPress user, you may also find the following related posts useful:
- How To Set Any WordPress Page As The Home Page Of Your Site
- How To Create A Blog Section In Your WordPress Site
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