How do I get posts to display on succeeding pages?

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  peterhwolf · Member · Sep 13, 2011 at 2:49 am

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  I have a home page set up, then a first (next) page of 3 posts that display fine. However I have more posts entered that won’t display on the second (next) page of posts. How do I get them to do so? I want to use the website to make available documents for students to read and/or download, not for blogging, so I’d like to be able to simply post documents and have them display, say, 3 at a time on succeeding pages automatically. Can you help me on this? Or perhaps I have to use a different theme from the one I’m using (DePo Masthead)?
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  chrisrudzki · Member · Sep 13, 2011 at 9:03 pm

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  Hi there,

  It looks like you’ve set a static front page, and a posts page already. You’ve also set your blog pages to display at most three posts.

  These settings are at Settings → Reading in your dashboard.

  Currently, you’ve set the page “Posts — First Page” as your posts page. You’ll probably want to change the name of this page to something like “Posts.”

  This guide should help you sort this out:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

  You might also want to review this guide on the differences between posts and pages:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  The theme you’re using, DePo Masthead, emphasizes the most recent posts, and displays the rest on archive pages. You might want to use the archives widget to display these archives:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/archives-widget/

  Alternatively, you can select another theme from the Theme Showcase:
  http://themes.wordpress.com