Twenty Sixteen 'Blog pages show at most' setting

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  davidhansard · Member · Oct 19, 2019 at 7:01 pm

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  I’ve just started using the Twenty Sixteen theme, on my account. It’s excellent.

  But could anyone help me with two questions:

  1. In Settings > Reading there’s a setting for ‘Blog pages show at most’. It doesn’t matter what number I put in, my blog page shows endless blog posts. Scrolling to the bottom makes older posts appear. I’d like it to stop after say five or six, then have a link ‘Older posts’. Is that possible on Twenty Sixteen, with a free account? Is it possible with a paid plan? And if not, what’s that setting for?

  2. Can a post be hidden on the blog page, but not be private? In other words, I might link to it elsewhere, but don’t wish it to be shown on the blog page.

  Any help appreciated.

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  themagicrobot · Member · Oct 19, 2019 at 7:19 pm

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  1, Did you look further down that page and disable “Infinite scroll”?

  2. Perhaps the easiest way would be to make that particular item a page instead of a post.

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  davidhansard · Member · Oct 19, 2019 at 8:07 pm

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  Thanks themagicrobot, that’s really helped.

  I thought I’d been carefully through all settings, but clearly missed that one. I like WordPress.com a lot, but there are so many settings and menus in the editor.

  Your idea of having a page for the occasional post, rather than an actual post seems so obvious once I’ve been told. I should’ve thought of that.

  Thanks again for taking time to respond.