As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your website as a ‘blog’ and shows your newest post entries on the home page, unless you set a fixed page as a static main page.
In a separate tutorial, we’ve also explained how to create a WordPress blog page to show your latest blog posts.
Regardless of your choice to have display your blog posts on your front page or your blog page, you can specify the number of blog post entries to display on these pages (e.g. ’2’, ’7’, ‘9’ etc.)
Your website will then display blog posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of blog posts you have specified, even if your WP website contains more blog posts than the number of items set to display …
The ability to specify the number of post items will display on your WordPress site can be useful.
For example, you can display only the latest single blog post item you have published. This is useful, if, for example, you want to promote a different limited-time offer each month, 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 social page for updates and announcements, etc.
You can also use this great feature to fill an ugly space on your blog page if your sidebar menu runs too long …
Whatever the reason may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts that will display on main blog page.
Let’s show you, then, how to change how many blog posts will show on your WordPress blog.
How To Change The Number Of Posts Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress lets you choose how many blog posts you want to have showing on your website’s blog page.
How many entries you would like to display is entirely up to you. WordPress doesn’t limit this amount …
Note: Choose a sensible setting that won’t slow down your page as the content loads on your site. You can always raise or lower the number of posts displayed.
To specify how many blog post entries you want to display on the blog page of your WordPress web site, click on Settings > Reading from your WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure the options in the Reading Settings section as per the screenshot below:
How To Specify The Number Of Posts Showing On The Front Page
If you are using your WP site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the main page shows your most recent published blog items, 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 posts that you want to display – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ’10’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click the ‘Save’ button when done to update your settings…
To Specify The Number Of Posts On The Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the home page is a fixed page and your most recent posts show up 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 post items that you want to display – e.g. ‘1’, ’5’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors come to your site, they will see blog posts 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 set the amount of blog posts you would like to show on the blog page of your site.
Related Posts
If you are a new WordPress user, you may also find the following topic-related posts useful:
- How To Create A Static Home Page In WordPress
- How To Create A Blog Page To Display Your Latest Blog Posts
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