As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and displays your newest post entries on the main page, unless you fix a page as a static main page.
In a separate post, we also discussed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published articles.
Regardless of your choice to have your most recent published articles on your main page or your blog page, WordPress lets you specify the number of blog posts to display on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have set, even if your WP website or blog contains more blog posts than the number of posts you have set to display …
Being able to set how many posts display on your site is useful.
For example, you can set your blog to display only the latest entry you have published. This is useful for example, if you are promoting 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 monthly team page for 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, With WordPress you have the flexibility to set the number of posts that you want to display on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how easy it is to set the number of blog posts will display on your site’s blog page.
How To Change The Number Of Posts To Display On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you specify how many published posts you want to have displaying on your site’s blog page.
The number of posts you want to display is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this number …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of items displayed.
To specify how many published posts you would like to have displaying on your site’s blog page website, go to your WordPress navigation menu and choose Settings > Reading …
Configure your settings in the Reading Settings screen as per the screenshot below:
Changing The Number Of Posts Showing On The Home Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the main page shows your newest posts, 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 items you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done…
Editing The Number Of Posts On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your most recent published content 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 entries you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see your most recently published articles showing 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 change the amount of published blog post entries you would like displayed on your website’s blog page.
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