As we’ve discussed in other posts, by default, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your latest published posts on the home page, unless you set a specific page as a home page.
In a separate tutorial, we have also addressed how to create a WordPress blog page to display your latest published articles.
Regardless of your choice to have posts on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of posts to display on these pages (i.e. ‘1’, ’7’, ’15’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog post entries on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog post entries you have set, even if your WordPress website contains more blog posts than the number of posts set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of blog post items display on your web site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the most recent blog post item you have published. This is useful for example, if you promote a weekly special, a ‘deal of the day’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a weekly team page for announcements, etc.
You can also use this great 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 specify the number of blog posts to display on main blog page.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you are going to learn how to specify the number of blog posts will display on your site’s blog page.
How To Set The Number Of Posts To Display On Your WordPress Blog
Through its content management system (CMS), WordPress allows you to choose how many blog posts you want displayed on the blog page of your web site.
How many entries you would like displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
Note: We recommend selecting a sensible setting that won’t overload your page as the entries load on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of items displayed on your blog page.
To specify how many blog post entries you want to display on the blog page of your website, click on Settings > Reading from the WP navigation menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings panel as shown below:
Modifying The Number Of Posts Showing On Your Home Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the home page displays your most recent post entries, 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 blog posts that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when finished to update your settings…
Editing The Number Of Posts On The Blog Page
If you are using your WP site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your most recent 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 blog post items you want showing – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when finished …
Now, when visitors land on your website, they will see posts 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 change the amount of published blog post entries you would like to have showing on the blog page of your WP website.
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