WordPress.com Forums » Tag: number of posts on front page - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/number-of-posts-on-front-page WordPress.com Forums » Tag: number of posts on front page - Recent Posts en Sun, 19 May 2013 13:28:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 noypigeeks on "How do i limit the blogs posted in a page" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-limit-the-blogs-posted-in-a-page#post-838115 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:21:07 +0000 noypigeeks 838115@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thanks!

]]> justpi on "How do i limit the blogs posted in a page" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-limit-the-blogs-posted-in-a-page#post-837593 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:39:07 +0000 justpi 837593@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Settings > Reading.

]]> noypigeeks on "How do i limit the blogs posted in a page" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-i-limit-the-blogs-posted-in-a-page#post-837591 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:33:55 +0000 noypigeeks 837591@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ hey i just want to ask how do i limit how many blog posts will show in a page? for example in my home page all my 8 blogs are shown and i want to limit it to onlly 5 blogs per page. how will it do it? thanks!

]]> timethief on "Showing More "Recent Posts"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/showing-more-recent-posts#post-804772 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:52:39 +0000 timethief 804772@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I'd like to display more than the 20 most recent posts on my blog home page.

Setting your front page here > Settings > Reading
Blog pages show at most__posts
to display more than a few very short posts leads to increased page loading time. It is not recommended that any blogger places 20 posts on a front page. Page loading time is a page ranking factor and visitors studies demonstarte if the site does not load fully in 3- 4 seconds visitors click out. You can psilt content in post by inserting "the more tag" and that will reduce page loading time.

]]> timethief on "Showing More "Recent Posts"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/showing-more-recent-posts#post-804768 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:47:41 +0000 timethief 804768@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The site linked to your username is not a free hosted WordPress.com blog and if you are referring to it we do not provide support for WordPress.org installs that support ios here > http://wordpress.or/support/

If you are actually referring to a feee hosted WordPress.com blog and have accidentally linked the wrong site to your WordPress.com username then the Recent Posts Widget displays your most recent posts in your sidebar and there is no miximum numbers stated in the support documentation provided. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-posts-widget/

]]> nonesnotes on "Showing More "Recent Posts"" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/showing-more-recent-posts#post-804764 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:39:19 +0000 nonesnotes 804764@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'd like to display more than the 20 most recent posts on my blog home page. I can't figure out how to do this. Does anyone know how to change the setting so that more than the 20 most recent blog posts are displayed?

]]> julieinbali on "Important posts fading away" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/important-posts-fading-away#post-726254 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:08:00 +0000 julieinbali 726254@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, I totally get your point.... however, it dawns on me that it is my fundamental misinterpretation about this that has caused me concern - oops! I'm still very new to blogging so the terminology still hasn't sunk in yet and I have a lot to learn!

When I read that 'posts sometimes fade away' I didn't pay attention to 'where' they fade away from. So I assumed that my posts might be affected, but you all highlighting the bit about the front page/home page/main page has made me realise there is no problem as I have 7 categories and my posts are all 'under' those categories, not on the 'front page', so presumably they wont fade away. Thanks for showing me this - sorry to waste your time with a dumb question, doh!

]]> auxclass on "Important posts fading away" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/important-posts-fading-away#post-726162 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:50:45 +0000 auxclass 726162@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ PS - if not noted above - Google takes page loading time into account for it' search rankings - the longer to load the lower the ranking.

]]> auxclass on "Important posts fading away" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/important-posts-fading-away#post-726161 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:49:45 +0000 auxclass 726161@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I have upped it to 100 but it can take many thousands - so I presume it will take at least hundreds of posts, if not thousands, before the page loading time gets affected - is that right?

Wrong - 10 is a good number - forcing your regular visitors to load a ton of stuff they have already read is a recipe for no visitors - 100 should insure that you irritate your declining visitor base - even if you were my bestest friend I would only visit your site with 100 Posts on the front page under if I was under threat of dire physical damage to me.

You want your pages to snap when they load you have only 2 to 4 seconds before most people will bail from a site that is not loading - don't irritate your regular visitors - use the more tag on long posts -

]]> julieinbali on "Important posts fading away" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/important-posts-fading-away#post-726151 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:33:17 +0000 julieinbali 726151@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks so much for the replies.
timethief cautions about how many posts to set and I note that the default setting was 10. I have upped it to 100 but it can take many thousands - so I presume it will take at least hundreds of posts, if not thousands, before the page loading time gets affected - is that right?

]]> thesacredpath on "Important posts fading away" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/important-posts-fading-away#post-725566 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:11:45 +0000 thesacredpath 725566@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How long it take for a post to disappear from the main page depends on the setting that Timethief references and how often you post. The iTheme2 theme allows you to "feature" certain posts if you wish to keep them around on the main page longer if that is desired. Sometimes a post will end up very popular and a great discussion will ensue in the comments, or that post will end up getting lots of views over a longer period of time and those types of posts you might wish to set as a "featured" post. Featured posts can also be used to showcase older posts that perhaps because of some recent events or something, you want to bring those back to the main page.

]]> timethief on "Important posts fading away" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/important-posts-fading-away#post-725541 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:52:31 +0000 timethief 725541@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You control how many posts are displayed on the front page of your blog. The setting is found here > Settings > Reading
Blog pages show at most __ posts
"Save Changes"
Be cautious not to set too many as the more posts there are on your front page the slower pages loading time becomes for visitors. Page loading time is a page ranking factor and studies demonstrate the average person is not going to wait longer than 3 - 4 seconds for a site to load.

]]> julieinbali on "Important posts fading away" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/important-posts-fading-away#post-725539 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:48:47 +0000 julieinbali 725539@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi, I received the wordpress email 2 days ago about a new theme (iTheme2) and it explained that 'sometimes important posts fade away from the home page' - I didn't know that that happened, and that comment made it sound pretty random i.e. 'sometimes'...
I've searched about how long it takes for this to happen but nothing showed up - does anyone know how long it takes before posts drop off. Is it after a period of time or is it due to the amount of content in the blog? Do you get advance notification that your posts will fade away?
Ive only had a blog for a few months and I really don't want to go through the effort of changing to a new theme just because of this without knowing how long it will take before my posts will cease to exist and I don't want to have to spend time each month looking to see what, if anything, has disappeared. - so can anyone explain how this works?

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Home page problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/home-page-problems#post-434553 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:07:59 +0000 panaghiotisadam 434553@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome!

]]> gilestagg on "Home page problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/home-page-problems#post-434550 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:57:06 +0000 gilestagg 434550@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Brilliant, thank you very much!

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Home page problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/home-page-problems#post-434548 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:52:31 +0000 panaghiotisadam 434548@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The default number of posts per page is 10; you can go to Settings>Reading and change that to 1. Or you can set a static page as your front:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

In both cases, better start categorizing your posts, and add the Categories widget to your sidebar.

]]> gilestagg on "Home page problems" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/home-page-problems#post-434545 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:43:48 +0000 gilestagg 434545@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi, is there any way I can prevent all the blogs I write coming up on the home page, I want to be able to track individual blogs and their respondents, however if they go to the home page they see all my blogs and so I can't see which they are reading the most of!

Help!!

Thanks,

Giles

]]> timethief on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424962 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:27:02 +0000 timethief 424962@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ahhh ... thanks for chiming in - noted. :)

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424834 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:49:26 +0000 panaghiotisadam 424834@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @timethief: It's not a theory! Back when the sticky option was more prominent and lots of new bloggers marked all posts as stickies (misunderstanding what "stick to front page" means), I had seen several blogs with 30 or so posts on the front page (with the show-at-most option set to 10). You didn't get the effect because you stickied a newly created post: try making an older post sticky and see what happens.

]]> timethief on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424764 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:39:20 +0000 timethief 424764@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @rhpt
I just went to my test blog which is also using the Inove theme. I created a sticky post and set the blog to display only one post like I explained here http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting?replies=9#post-424706

Guess what? It's only displaying the sticky post so that shoots the theory of the software not recognizing a sticky post and counting it in goes out the window. If you have set your blog up correctly to display only one post and you are getting two then I think we can conclude that you need Staff to intervene and sort this for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

]]> timethief on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424761 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:27:26 +0000 timethief 424761@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @rhpt
You had the blog set to display only one post. You had two posts and one was a sticky post. Maybe when you create a sticky post the software doesn't count it and therefore displays the sticky plus one post.

]]> raincoaster on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424758 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:23:20 +0000 raincoaster 424758@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ah, you COULD make a static PAGE. I'd forgotten about that. But yes, it has all those drawbacks.

]]> timethief on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424755 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:22:16 +0000 timethief 424755@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm with raincoaster on this. In fact I just blogged about it here http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/12/29/static-front-blog-page-yay-or-nay/

The bottom line: Don't do it unless you don't care about increasing traffic to it, and could care less about Google juice, or PageRank.

]]> raincoaster on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424748 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:13:24 +0000 raincoaster 424748@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Not as far as I know, and it would kill your blog stone dead if you did it. Literally everyone coming to your blog would think you never posted anything new.

]]> rhpt on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424745 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:05:29 +0000 rhpt 424745@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ahh...That explains it! Is there anyway to make the sticky post the only post on the frontpage?

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424709 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:28:55 +0000 panaghiotisadam 424709@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And if it's that blog, the latest post has been erroneously marked as a sticky. Sticky posts override the "show at most" setting.

]]> timethief on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424706 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:23:41 +0000 timethief 424706@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I just read a bunch of threads and I think I found your blog. Id this it? http://r.amblin.gs/ If so it's wearing the Inove theme and I just set my test blog to display only 1 page in the same theme with no problem.

> Settings > Reading
scroll down and change the number to one (1) on the following line and then click "Save Changes".

Blog pages show at most ___ posts

]]> timethief on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424702 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:17:40 +0000 timethief 424702@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello there. You didn't provide a link to the blog in question starting with http:// so I cannot answer you. There is a theme that display two posts on the front page and that cannot be changed. However, until you post the link to the blog in question I have zero to work with.

]]> rhpt on "Blog pages show at most setting" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting#post-424699 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:12:08 +0000 rhpt 424699@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ When I set the "Blog pages show at most" settings to 1, my blog still shows 2 posts on the frontpage. Is it possible to just show one post on the first page, and nothing else?

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