How To: Display More Blog Posts in WordPress

Posted in: Tutorials by Brad Williams on July 6, 2009

By default WordPress displays 10 blog posts at a time.  You can change this setting under the Settings > Reading SubPanel. Change the number of posts next to “Blog pages show at most” from 10 to any number you like.

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Remember it’s best to keep this number identical to the “Syndication feeds show the most recent” option.  This can cause paging issues in certain theme templates if not set the same.

How To: Set a Static Home Page for WordPress

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Do you want to set display your blog posts on a page other than your home page?  In WordPress you can set a static page to be your home page.  First create two new pages: Home and Blog.  Then visit the Settings > Reading SubPanel and select “A static page” for the Front page displays option and select the two pages you just created.

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Once saved all of your blog posts are now displayed on your new Blog page.  Your front page will now display the static page Home.

How To: Block Your WordPress Website from Search Engine

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Do you want to block your WordPress website from being indexed by Google, Yahoo, or any search engine at all?  Just visit the Settings > Privacy SubPanel and enable the option:

I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers

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Another good idea is to create a robots.txt file in your root WordPress directory with these two lines of code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This also tells search engines to stay away and will not allow your content to be indexed.