As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest posts on the front page, unless you set a specific page as your home page.
In a separate article, we also discussed how to create a blog page to display your latest published content.
Regardless of your choice to have your most recent published articles on your main page or your blog page, you can set a specific number of blog post entries to appear on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’12’ etc.)
Your website 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 WordPress site contains more blog posts than the number you have set to display …
Being able to set the number of blog post items will display on your WordPress site can be very useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the most recent blog post item you have published. This can be useful, if, for example, you are promoting a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of your sports team, post an upcoming event, set up a quarterly corporate page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason, WordPress gives you the flexibility to set the number of blog posts that you want to display on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to change how many blog posts to show on your blog page.
Setting The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog
WordPress allows you to choose how many published blog posts you want to show on the blog page.
How many entries you want displayed is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: We recommend that you select a sensible setting that won’t slow down 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 published posts you want displayed on the blog page of your web site, select Settings > Reading from your WP navigation menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings page as per the screenshot below:
Changing 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 home page displays your latest blog posts, then set your options 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 you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished…
To Modify The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your most recent post entries show up on a separate blog page, then set your options 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 entries that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done to update your settings …
Now, when visitors come to your website, they will see recently published content displayed 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 change the amount of published posts you want listed on the blog page of your WP site.
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