As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your most recent published content on the home page, unless you fix a page as a static front page.
In a previously published article, we’ve also covered how to create a blog page to display your most recent published entries.
Regardless of your choice to have blog posts on your home page or your blog page, With WordPress you can specify the number of items to show up on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ’15’ etc.)
Your site will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of items you have set, even if your website or blog contains more blog posts than the number of items set to display …
Having the ability to set the number of entries can display on your WordPress site is useful.
For example, you can display only the latest post that you have published. This can be useful for example, if you want to send your readers to 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 quarterly social 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 may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to change the number of posts that you want to show on your blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily specify how many posts to show on your WordPress blog.
How To Change The Number Of Post Entries Displayed On Your Blog
WordPress lets you choose how many published blog posts you want listed on your website’s blog page.
How many blog posts you want displayed is completely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this number …
Note: We recommend that you choose a sensible setting that won’t slow down 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 specify how many blog post entries you want to have showing on your site’s blog page website, go to your WP dashboard menu and click on Settings > Reading …
Configure the settings in the Reading Settings page as shown below:
Changing The Number Of Posts On The Front Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default installation option), where the home page shows your latest 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 blog post entries that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done…
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page displays a fixed page and your most recent published content 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 items that you want to show – i.e. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog posts showing either on your home 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 number of blog post entries you want to show on the blog page.
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