As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent post entries on the main page, unless you specify a page as the home page.
In a previous post, we have also covered how to create a blog page to display your most recent published entries.
Regardless of your choice to make recently published post entries appear on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog posts to show on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ‘3’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website will then display your newest blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have set, even if your WP website or blog contains more blog posts than the number of posts set to display …
The ability to set the number of entries display on your web site is useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest single blog post that you have published. This can be handy, if, for example, you want to send your readers to 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 an upcoming event, set up a monthly office page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to change the number of blog posts that you want to display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to set the number of blog post entries will show on your site’s blog page.
Changing The Number Of Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many published blog post entries you would like displayed on the blog page of your site.
How many blog posts you want displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: We recommend selecting a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of blog posts you would like to display on your site’s blog page web site, go to the WP navigation menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the home page shows your newest 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 posts that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your latest blog posts display 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 that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see posts displayed 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 set the number of published blog post entries you want to show on the blog page of your WP website.
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