As we’ve discussed in previous posts, by default, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent posts on the front page, unless you fix a page as the home page.
In a previously published post, we have also explained how to create a blog page to show your latest post.
Whether you choose to have recently published posts show up on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of blog posts to appear 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 blog post entries you have set, even if your WP site contains more blog posts than the number set to display …
The ability to specify the number of entries display on your WordPress site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the latest single post that you have published. This is useful for example, if you want to send your readers to a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a weekly office page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to set the number of posts that you want to show on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to specify how many blog post entries you want to show on your WordPress blog.
How To Specify The Number Of Blog Posts To Display On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many blog posts you would like to show on the blog page.
The number of posts you would like to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Select a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed on your blog page.
To specify how many published blog post entries you want to display on your blog page website, choose Settings > Reading from your WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure your options 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 WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your newest published blog 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 posts you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done to update your settings…
Editing The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page is 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 you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see blog post entries showing either on your front 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 blog posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your website.
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