As we’ve discussed in previous posts, in a default installation, WordPress treats your site as a ‘blog’ and displays your latest posts on the front page, unless you set a specific page as the home page.
In another post, we also discussed how to create a blog page to display your latest published articles.
Regardless of your choice to have display your latest blog posts on your main page or your blog page, With WordPress you can set a specific number of items to display on these pages (e.g. ‘1’, ’7’, ’10’ etc.)
Your website will then display posts on your blog page up to the maximum number of posts you have specified, even if your WordPress site contains more posts than the number set to display …
Having the ability to specify how many blog posts can display on your site has a number of uses.
For example, you can display only the latest entry that you have published. This is handy, if, for example, you promote a different time-sensitive offer each week, a ’book of the month’ type of offer, publish the latest results of a local sports competition, post upcoming events, set up a monthly social page for updates and 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 may be, With WordPress you have the flexibility to specify the number of blog posts to show on main blog page.
In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to easily set the number of blog post entries will display on your WordPress blog.
How To Change The Number Of Blog Post Entries Displayed On Your WordPress Blog Page
WordPress allows you to specify how many published blog posts you would like displayed on the blog page of your web site.
The number of entries you want displayed is entirely up to you. there is no limit to this amount …
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 number of items displayed on your blog page.
To specify how many blog post entries you want to have showing on the blog page of your web site, click on Settings > Reading from the WordPress dashboard menu …
Configure your options in the Reading Settings panel as per the screenshot below:
Specifying The Number Of Posts On The Main Page
If you are using your site as a blog (i.e. the default WordPress option), where the home page shows your newest posts, 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 you want showing – e.g. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’15’ etc.)
- Click the Save Changes button when done to update your settings…
Modifying The Number Of Posts On Your Blog Page
If you are using your site as a website, where the main page shows a fixed page and your latest blog posts 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 post items that you want displayed – i.e. ‘1’, ‘3’, ‘7’, ’12’ etc.)
- Click on Save Changes when done …
Now, when visitors land on your site, they will see recently published 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 listed on the blog page of your site.
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