Front page displays: Youre latest posts

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  darksidehalfandbeyond · Member · Oct 20, 2016 at 7:42 pm

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  New to blogging, just set this up a few days ago. How do you limit the number of blog posts published to your front page? I thought the setting under ‘wp-admin / settings / reading / Blog pages show at most’ would control this but it doesn’t seem to have an impact. Or is is the ‘wp-admin / settings / reading / Front page displays: your latest posts’ control it? If so, what is considered a ‘latest post’?
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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 20, 2016 at 10:48 pm

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  Hi,
  Hi,

  I thought the setting under ‘wp-admin / settings / reading / Blog pages show at most’ would control this but it doesn’t seem to have an impact.

  That is the correct place to set the number of posts displayed on a blog page. The site https://darksidehalfandbeyond.wordpress.com/ presently displays five posts on the front page, which seems to be all of your posts. Try setting it to a smaller number, and save the change at the bottom of the Reading Settings page.

  Or is is the ‘wp-admin / settings / reading / Front page displays: your latest posts’ control it?

  This option determines whether the front page displays your latest posts or a static page.

  If so, what is considered a ‘latest post’?

  “Latest” means “most recent.”

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  darksidehalfandbeyond · Member · Oct 24, 2016 at 4:20 pm

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  Ah ha, found the ‘trick’ I was missing, needed to turn off “To infinity and beyond Scroll Infinitely”. Thanks for the info.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Oct 24, 2016 at 8:07 pm

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  Great! I should have mentioned that. You’re welcome.