Number of recent posts on the homepage

[rina Inc]

It appears that I can set a maximum of 5 recent posts to show on the homepage. How can I increase this number? let’s say make it 8!
When I got to the Appearance->Theme Options->Homepage, I can only choose between 1-5. Can you let me know how to increase this number?
Thank you for your help

[Bill Robbins]

Rina,

Great question. You can change that number and here’s how to do that:

1. Go to the appearance section and select edit to open up the theme editor.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose home.php and look for this spot:

3. Replace that with this:

4. Save your changes.

That will display 10 posts on the home page instead of what the options page selects. If you’d like to use a number other than 10, look for this spot:

posts_per_page=10

and change the 10 to the number of posts you’d like to display there.

If you have any questions or trouble, just let me know,
Bill Robbins

[Author]

Posts