As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent posts on the main page, unless you specify a page as a static home page.
In another article, we also discuss how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent blog posts.
Whether you choose to have your blog posts on your home page or your blog page, WordPress lets you set a specific number of published blog posts to appear on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’4’, ’15’ etc.)
Your WP website will then display recently published post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your website contains more blog posts than the number set to display …
The ability to set the number of posts will display on your site is useful.
For example, you can display only the latest blog post you have published. This is useful for example, if you want to promote a weekly special, a ‘deal of the day’ 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.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts to display on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to specify how many blog post entries you want to show on your site’s blog page.
How To Set The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress allows you to specify how many posts you would like to have displaying on the blog page.
How many blog posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Select 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 items displayed on your blog page.
To set how many blog post entries you want listed on your site’s blog page website, click on Settings > Reading from the WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings screen as shown below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Displayed 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 most recent published 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 items that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done to update your settings…
To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the home page displays 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 post items that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your latest blog posts displayed 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 change the amount of blog post entries you would like to have displaying on your WordPress website’s blog page.
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