As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent posts on the home page, unless you set a specific page as a static home page.
In a previously published post, we have also explained how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest published posts.
Regardless of your choice to make display your most recent published articles on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of posts to appear on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’6’, ’10’ etc.)
Your WordPress site will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your website contains more blog posts than the number of posts set to display …
The ability to set the number of entries display on your WordPress site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the most recent post you have published. This is useful, if, for example, you promote a different limited-time offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly community page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to specify the number of posts to show on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to change how many blog posts will show up on your site’s blog page.
Specifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress allows you to choose how many blog post entries you would like to have showing on the blog page of your website.
How many entries you would like to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of items displayed on your blog page.
To specify the number of published posts you want to display on the blog page of your web site, go to your WP dashboard menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings page as shown in the screenshot below:
Editing The Number Of Posts On Your Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your most recent blog posts, 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 blog posts that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished…
Modifying The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your newest published blog content show up 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 entries that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see your most recently published articles showing 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 set the amount of posts you would like to display on the blog page of your site.
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