Blog pages show at most setting
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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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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.
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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
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And if it’s that blog, the latest post has been erroneously marked as a sticky. Sticky posts override the “show at most” setting.
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Ahh…That explains it! Is there anyway to make the sticky post the only post on the frontpage?
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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.
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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.
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Ah, you COULD make a static PAGE. I’d forgotten about that. But yes, it has all those drawbacks.
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@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 https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-pages-show-at-most-setting?replies=9#post-424706Guess 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.
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@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.
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