Too many posts on home page
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I do not want all of my posts showing up on my homepage (as is the case currently) so that it makes for a very long home page. I would prefer that just my current post show up on my home page and older ones can be found through other links on my page. How can I fix this?
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I also want to figure out why my picture/gravatar keeps showing up as the generic one sometimes and other times it shows up as the one I have uploaded (pirate girl). I might have to post a different questions to get this answer, I suppose.
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You can set the number of post that appear on your front page here > Settings > Reading
Blog pages show at most __ posts
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The instructions are found here in the support documentation > http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/gravatars/
My summary of the best practices for selecting an image, optimizing it and uploading it to be used as a gravatar are found in this post. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/01/24/gravatar-avatar-blavatar/
Note that there is a time delay for the gravatar image to propagate throughout the internet. Note also if your gravatar does not appear the reasons for that may be found in the FAQs on the gravatar site. http://en.gravatar.com/site/faq/ -
Sometimes people do not understand that gravtars only appear on blogs where the blogger chooses to enable their display. On wordpress.com blogs we enable gravatar display on the bottom of this page. Settings > Discussion.
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I have a related question for anyones educated opinion.
What is a good number of posts to display on a home page?Several years ago the rule was that google didn’t like more than five or six posts, but readers have told me they like more posts on the home page(particularly on a creative blog).
What have others read and what do they think id the best number of posts?
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Given the fact that content varies from blog to blog and that page loading time is a ranking factor, I think dwelling on one size fits all numbers is irrelevant and misleading. It’s my opinion that each of us ought to make that decision with regard to our own blogs based on page loading time.
Page loading time is a ranking factor. How quickly does the site load?
* How many widgets and gadgets are there in the sidebar?
* How many scripts are running?
* Is there autoplay music?
* How much decorative “tat” (clutter) is in sidebars and/or footers?If you are looking for online page loading time checkers and other tools to determine page loading time you will find links to the same and strategies for reducing page loading time in this post. > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/06/13/blogging-strategies-for-reducing-page-loading-time/
P.S. I don’t do blog evaluations. I provide a do it yourself blog evaluation post here. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/01/28/12-step-blog-evaluation/
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thanks Timetheif,
You seem to be in agreement on what I have read recently, that Page-load speed is a cardinal rule of SEO, now.thanks for the helpful links and tools.
P.S. glad to see that WordPress.COM allows for Google Webmaster tools again, as well as Bing and Yahoos as well. (page speed and indexing tools)
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Staff have said that fewer than ten is a must, and around five is ideal to maximize the number of posts that actually get read.
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Hey there it’s good to connect again and you’re welcome.
I see many blogs with HUGE images and more than one image in their posts. I see blog with multiple embeds in posts as well and too many posts on their front pages. They don’t use “the more tag” ans they don’t want to reduce the number of posts on the front page. the result is visitors who click out before the blog loads.
In addition, some seem to assume that everyone is on high speed service when this isn’t the case at all. In reality studies show we have 8 seconds and from that point on visitors click out because the pageloading has not been completed.
“… the explosion of broadband is limited to a handful of countries that include the US, Australia, Canada and Japan. In great Britain, for example, broadband connections account for only about one percent of the residential Internet market. By most estimates, and these are very conservative, there will be a healthy market for dial-up residential and small business accounts for years to come. — Dave McClure, President, US Internet Industry Association
I also notice many think all their visitors have HUGE widescreen monitors. That’s not true either, and most visitors dislike horizontal scroll bars so when experiencing them many simply click out.
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Using a Web Page Analyzer:
I changed post per page from “8”posts back down to “5”posts (which included dropping a post with a Scribd object that used alot of load time)
that alone changed the load time of my home page from 2.5 minutes to sightly more than 1 minute, for viewers with a 56k modem. Lots of readers still use dialup.
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Oh damn – WHY did I go there? Now I want to fix all the stuff Web Page Analyzer highlighted. Not from the perspective of my blog as such, just because I want to fix the IT stuff! It isn’t the writer kicking in, it is the IT person kicking in! I should have remained totally ignorant about the whole thing.
I did cut down my number of posts on the home page though, but I am now thinking that the Traction theme with the slider and images may need me to revisit the size of the images.
My load time on 56K is way too long!
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