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How to limit the number of posts in a category?
Perhaps you would also like to limit the number of posts displayed on your category archives to only five. or Custom Post Limits, tweak a few settings, and call it good. But.. this does require commitment to yet another plugin, which is a good reason for doing things the “hard” way..
What’s the content limit for a blog post?
This code uses the category i.d’s and displays a content limit of 100 for 3 categories. All other archives display a limit of 300. Learn more about customizing excerpts.
How to limit number of posts per page in WordPress?
Let’s say your blog is set to display ten posts per page, as specified via the WordPress Admin under Settings ▸ Reading. Once set, ten posts will appear on your home page, archive pages, search results, and so on. In other words, if it isn’t a single-view page or an actual “page” page, you’re gonna get ten posts per page.
How to set post limit on home page?
On top of this, you can also control the content limit for both featured posts and posts displayed in the grid only on the home page as the code is included in the home.php file. The PHP code above is set to display 5 posts.
Why are the number of posts displayed on my blog so big?
Mainly because the more posts you display on a page, the bigger the page size will be, which makes it slower to load. On WPBeginner’s Blog and Archive pages, we show 10 posts with an excerpt and the featured image.
How many posts do I get per page?
Once set, ten posts will appear on your home page, archive pages, search results, and so on. In other words, if it isn’t a single-view page or an actual “page” page, you’re gonna get ten posts per page. It’s a global setting. But what if you want to display different numbers of posts for different types of page views?
How to change the number of posts displayed on your WordPress blog page?
Do you want to change the number of posts displayed on your WordPress blog page? By default, all WordPress archive pages show a maximum of 10 posts per page.
How to limit the number of posts that WP _ query gets?
When you run a custom query with WP_Query and set the limit to get only 5 posts per page, only 5 posts will be retrieved by the query and that query will only hold 5 posts, BUT for the sake of pagination, WP_Query still runs through the whole database and counts all the posts that matches the criteria of the query.
How many posts per page in wordpress archive?
Now your WordPress blog and archive pages will show the number of posts that you want to display. Usually, bloggers display 10 posts per page as set by default. It seems an appropriate number to show from the user-experience and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) perspective.