As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest published content on the home page, unless you fix a page as a home page.
In another article, we also explain how to create a WordPress blog page to show your most recent post.
Regardless of your choice to make present your most recently published articles on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of items to appear on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’6’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have specified, even if your WordPress website contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
Being able to specify the number of entries will display on your site is useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest blog post that you have published. This is useful, if, for example, you want to promote a different time-sensitive offer each month, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post upcoming events, set up a weekly community page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts that will show on your blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily change how many blog posts to display on your blog.
Specifying The Number Of Blog Post Entries To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many blog post entries you want listed on the blog page.
The number of blog posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the amount of items displayed.
To set how many published posts you want to display on your blog page site, go to the WP dashboard menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings panel as shown below:
How To Edit The Number Of Posts Showing On The Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the front page displays your most recent published content, 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 you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished to update your settings…
Specifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a website, where the home page shows a fixed page and your most recent blog posts display on a separate blog page, then edit your settings 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 you want to show – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your most recently published articles 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 set the amount of blog posts you want to display on the blog page of your WP site.
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