Reduce article to preview

cellomaster87 · Member · Dec 4, 2021 at 1:40 pm
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Hello,
I would like to know:
1. how to reduce the total number of articles visible on my homepage (they are too many now)
2. if this is not possible, how to make only a preview of the articles visible instead of the whole of them?

This is because the theme I chose (STOW) seems to have only a footer widget and I need somehow to have a search button more accessible to readers.

Thank you

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aleone89 · Staff · Dec 4, 2021 at 3:46 pm
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Hello there,

Happy to help you with this.

1. how to reduce the total number of articles visible on my homepage (they are too many now)

This can be changed via Settings > Reading.

You may also want to look into adding a More block into the content to reduce scrolling there: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/more-block/

I hope this helps.
cellomaster87 · Member · Dec 4, 2021 at 6:38 pm
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I have done this, reducing them from 10 to 5 but I still see 13 of them.
Does the “Featured” setting has something to do with it?
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 4, 2021 at 7:06 pm
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Yes, featured posts do override the limit. It’s really meant to only highlight 1 post at a time. So, you’d have 5 posts maybe, but 1 above them that’s important information or something like that.

However, based on what you’re saying, you might want to just have a static front page, so you can have more control over what’s visible there: https://wordpress.com/support/pages/front-page/

On that page, you can add the Blog Posts block, which will give you a lot of control: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/blog-posts-block/

And, to get that search more accessible, add a Search block: https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/search-block/
cellomaster87 · Member · Dec 4, 2021 at 7:53 pm
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Awesome!
I just created a page following your instructions and it is simply great!

Now, if I understood correctly, the page with only the recent articles has been removed. How to make it available somewhere?

Also, while creating the new Home page, I didnt find a block for the “Topics” to possibly insert in a 70-30 column with articles to the left and topics to the right.
Is it somewhere there called in some funny way?
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 4, 2021 at 8:02 pm
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If you’d also like to have a standard list of posts, create and select a blog page: https://wordpress.com/support/pages/front-page/#step-3-create-a-blog-page-optional

As for the topics, do you mean a categories list? https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/categories-block/

You can find all available blocks at https://wordpress.com/support/wordpress-editor/blocks/
cellomaster87 · Member · Dec 4, 2021 at 8:14 pm
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Mmm … to create a blog posts page that looks like it did before what block should I use?
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 4, 2021 at 8:31 pm
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The blog posts page will just be a list of posts, like you had on the front before, you cannot add blocks to it.
cellomaster87 · Member · Dec 4, 2021 at 8:53 pm
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Then I do not get the option in the dropdown menu:

(sorry but I didnt know how to differently post an image here)
staff-blorbo · Staff · Dec 4, 2021 at 10:31 pm
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You’ll have to create a page first you want your posts on, like create one called “Blog” or “News” then you can select it as your separate posts page.
cellomaster87 · Member · Dec 6, 2021 at 10:59 am
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Thank you so much!

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