Change Number Of Post Entries On WordPress

Posted by Jeff

on January 4, 2008

There is often the question on various forums and even in my inbox about how many posts should be shown on the main WordPress blog page. The answer to that isn’t all that easy. But what is easy is changing how many posts are shown. I will leave the number you choose up to you.

OK I will say this about how many posts to show. It actually isn’t so much the number of posts but the length of the posts. If you tend to write very long posts then you may want to only show a few. If they tend to be very short posts then maybe ten or even more. But that has nothing to do with any SEO tactics it’s more about looks and personal preference. So again I will leave the number up to you.

There are ways to shorten the post to show only the part you want on the main page and then a link to the rest of the post. One is using the More tag. The More tag is visible on the top of the write post screen by clicking the Code tab. Inserting this tag will cut off the post on the main page to where the tag is inserted.

Another way to shorten the posts shown is more complex by editing the themes fies to show (like on this blog) the first full post and the remainder as excerpts. More on that here: WordPress First Full Post Remainder As Excerpts

But back to what you came for; to change the number of posts shown on the main WordPress blog page.

In the dashboard click Options then the Reading subpanel.

Then simply change the number of posts in the box under Blog Pages Show at most: X posts and click update options.

Special thanks to Steve from Steves Home Business Blog who submitted this question to Ask Max.

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Comment by Arvind Gupta on January 11, 2008 @ 4:00 am

Nice post!
I didn’t know inserting ‘read more’ feature into specific posts in Wordpress was that easy.
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Comment by Dave on April 24, 2009 @ 11:57 am

If you are using adsense then you should have only 1 post per page, as in your home page, especially if you have different topics in post, this will trigger a bunch of ads and it will lower your cpc. Making Money On The Internet

Comment by Jay Martin on August 4, 2009 @ 2:32 pm

Many themes now days are coming with integrated plugins that allow you to manage “summary” posts on the index using options in Appearance -> Current Theme options. I also generally display 7-10 posts.

Comment by Tony Lee on September 4, 2009 @ 8:00 pm

Thanks for posting.

I found the use of the “more” tag by accident and doing some experimenting.

It’s not my favorite tag, but it does serve it’s purpose.

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