As we’ve discussed in other posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your most recent blog posts on the main page, unless you set a fixed page as your home page.
In a previously published article, we also discuss how to create a WordPress blog page to display your most recent published posts.
Regardless of your choice to make your most recent published articles on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of items to display on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’6’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your WordPress website will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have set, even if your WP web site contains more posts than the number of items set to display …
Being able to specify the number of entries display on your site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the latest entry that you have published. This is useful, if, for example, you are promoting a weekly special, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post an upcoming event, set up a monthly office page for announcements, etc.
Or, you can use this feature to fill an empty space on your blog if your sidebar menu is too long …
Whatever the reason, With WordPress you have the flexibility to change the number of posts to show on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily change the number of blog posts you want to display on your WordPress blog.
Changing The Number Of Blog Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress lets you choose how many blog post entries you want to have displaying on the blog page of your web site.
The number of blog posts you would like displayed is completely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: Pick a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always increase or decrease the amount of posts displayed.
To specify how many published posts you want listed on your site’s blog page site, go to the WP navigation menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings screen as shown in the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page shows your newest blog 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 entries that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done to update your settings…
To Modify The Number Of Posts Displayed On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page is a fixed page and your newest blog posts show up 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 entries that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ’10’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when finished to update your settings …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see your most recent published articles displayed 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 set the number of blog post entries you would like to show on your website’s blog page.
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