As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent blog posts on the main page, unless you set a specific page as a static front page.
In a previously published tutorial, we’ve also addressed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest blog posts.
Regardless of your choice to have blog posts on your home page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog posts to appear on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’4’, ’12’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have specified, even if your website or blog contains more posts than the number you have set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of entries display on your site is useful.
For example, you can display only the latest post item you have published. This can be useful for example, if you are promoting a different limited-time offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a quarterly team page for updates and announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of posts that will show on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to specify the number of posts will show on your blog.
Specifying The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many posts you want to display on your blog page.
How many entries you would like displayed is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: We suggest choosing a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed on your blog page.
To set how many blog post entries you want to display on the blog page of your WordPress site, go to your WordPress admin menu and select Settings > Reading …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings screen as shown below:
Modifying The Number Of Posts On The Main Page
If you are using your WordPress site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page displays your newest post entries, 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 post items you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished to update your settings…
Modifying The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page shows a fixed page and your newest blog posts 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 items that you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see posts 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 published blog post entries you would like listed on the blog page of your WP website.
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