Number of Posts Per Page
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Hi!
Is there any way that I can have the main page of my blog be limited to a single post or two, while at the same time having other pages on my site display a longer list of posts. For example, I want the home page to be minimalist (1-2 posts), but when a browser clicks on a category of interest a longer list of truncated posts (7-10+) would pull up. It appears that I am limited to making a single choice in my settings. Is there a way around this?
Warm Regards,
Mama Knucker Hatch
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Not on a WordPress.com blog. On an independently-hosted blog you could do it. Unless you use the theme that features only ONE post untruncated, all the rest have the read more tag…I think it’s Hemingway?
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Rats. Thanks for your reply raincoaster. I’ll think about it some more and see if I can’t get creatively around it.
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I’ve got a way around this, but it’s a bit complicated, and it involves having a static front page. If you’re interested, let me know.
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Hi Panaghiotisadam,
Can I know the way to have a static front page.
Warm Regards,
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Dashboard -> Settings -> Reading Settings -> “Front page displays…” (Select Static Page)
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Hi Marshal. Please note that you must give the URL of your blog when you ask a question here (or link your nickname to your blog as explained in the Sticky “8 Things to Know”). We get a lot of wrong visits, so we need to make sure it’s a wp.com blog; often we also need to check things in the blog itself before we can give the proper answer. (Now your blog name happens to be your nick, but that isn’t always the case, and you make things easier if you don’t make us have to try find that out.)
As for the static front, you could find the info in the FAQs (or in Dashboard > Help > Support.) You create a suitable page and set it as your static front page in Settings > Reading, as Tess said.
In that case you must also decide if you need a main posts area (= all your most recent posts) or not. If not, the Categories widget is enough: visitors will access your posts by subject via the category tabs. If you do want a main posts area, you must create one more BLANK page, name it “Posts” or whatever you see fit, and set it as your posts page – again in Settings > Reading.
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You can also place titles on your static front page, and make links to the Categories pages.
When you click a category, it generates a page that you can link to.
(http://YOUR-BLOG-NAME.wordpress.com/category/CATEGORY-NAME/)Set your blog to display 7 to 10 or whatever number of post summaries or exerpts you want to display.
But when a reader chooses to read one, your blog will show only that post. -
Question: If you have a static front page and then want to change it, can this be done?
I’ve taken the approach that you two have suggested and messed things up for myself terribly. I’m about to start all over because I just can’t get it right!
accurointouch.wordpress.com
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Hi panaghiotisadam
Ok, if I click on my blog site
http://accurointouch.wordpress.com/
the first page you see is “about this site” – the wording here is missing an updated version.
You’ll notice in the Categories section that their appears to be a post under “Accuro Financial Solutions”. This in fact does not exist, but if you click on it, you get taken to what I would like to have.
Problem is, if you were to now go back on “published works”, you’re back to something that is incorrect again – its a vicious circle and I have no idea what I’m doing
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Is there perhaps a time lag? Do I need to wait for my site to update what I’ve set up behind the scenes? I would have thought it was updated immediately?
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I don’t get the Categories bit: you only have one category (“General”), leading to the single post filed under tat category.
“Published works” leads to your post, so apparently you’ve set that page as your posts page.
“Home” and “About this site” lead to the same page, because you’ve set this page as your front. If you do want this to be your front, edit the page to get rid of the redundancy: turn into a “child” page, setting another page as its “parent” (only parent pages show as header tabs).
Please explain better how you want things to be. I cannot know what is “incorrect” to you.
And no, there’s no time lag re the pages setup.
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Mate, don’t worry about it. I’ve got it working – it was actually working just fine (what I was doing on Dashboard was correct and was producing the results I wanted) but for some reason when I click on the “Visit site” link, it would take me to an old page and make it look like things hadnt updated accordingly.
Very strange. Still not correct.
I’m having to update things on my pc while logged in and check the result from my laptop as a ‘viewer’
Dont suppose you know how to fix the problem I now have?
Thanks for your help
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