How Many Posts Per Page?

[Boris_yo]

I have noticed that only 6 posts are showing on blog's home page.
How can i control this number in order to increase / decrease the number of posts will appear on blog's home page?

[WestWing888]

In Wordpress admin section go to Options-->Reading-->"Show at most:" and input the number you want to show.

Mike

[Boris_yo]

Thanks Mike.

I want to also know if i can restrict posts from specific categories from showing up on home page. For example i have a lot of categories and one of them has posts that i don't want to display on home page.

How can i restrict posts from specific categories from showing up on home page?

[nasph]

Boris,

Why would you want to restrict posts from showing on your front page? Don't know how to restrict a category, but couldn't you just pre-date them before the other posts on your main page.

Also, how many categories do you have, as I'd consider more than 8 a little too much for a small niche blog.

[Boris_yo]

Have you heard about programs that can convert merchan't product datafeeds into RSS blog feed and be scheduled for periodical posting?

Lets say i want to create category that will just include products (with affiliate links of course) - in other words Shop. I don't want it to appear on home page as it will be scheduled for periodical posting - one product every 5 hours automatically posted.

So i can place the link to that Shop in right side navigation.
I don't want product posts to interfere with regular posts.

Get the idea?
Any suggestions?

[nasph]

Boris,

Sort of understand what you mean. However, I've never done this as I try to base one site on one strand of monetization.

Either adsense, BANS, or affiliate posts. Granted I'm following the 90DC and seeing how it will go with majority adsense and a little affiliate, but try not to put too many different methods on a site as you want to channel people through to click and make you money after all.

[Boris_yo]

The method i was talking about earlier was like having separate Shop on your blog. Let's say you have made 40 posts and 10 affiliate product review posts on your blog.

When visiting your home blog page, visitors will NOT see all of them - they will not dig through all of them to find them.

How do you expect them to find your older plog posts or affiliate product reviews posts?

The listing of pages seems a way to do it, but i don't think they would like to list as they rather prefer to find all of that on one page (think Sitemap?).

With my method, you can have Shop on your site and everytime you do affiliate product review posts, just refer them to your Shop by placing affiliate link at the end of affiliate product review post.

By the way i do affiliate product reviews by writing regular page - not post where you can publish&ping. Does that count for affiliate product review post?