As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent published entries on the front page, unless you specify a page as a static front page.
In a previously published post, we also show you how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog post entries.
Regardless of your choice to have blog posts on your main page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of blog posts to appear on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’7’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WP website or blog contains more posts than the number set to display …
Being able to specify how many blog posts will display on your site has a number of practical uses.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest blog post that you have published. This can be handy 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 upcoming events, set up a weekly corporate page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts to display on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to specify the number of posts you want to display on your blog page.
Changing The Number Of Posts To Display On Your Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many published blog posts you would like listed on your blog page.
How many blog posts you would like displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to 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 set the number of blog posts you would like to show on the blog page site, go to your WP navigation menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings screen as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Change The Number Of Posts On Your Home Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the front page displays your latest 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 post items that you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Displayed 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 items 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 you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog post entries 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 number of 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 posts useful:
- How To Make A Page Of Your Choice Become The Home Page Of Your WordPress Site
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your WordPress Posts
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