Settings » Reading Settings
Feeds, Front Page, Home, Pages, Posts, RSS
The Reading Settings control how a blog is displayed to visitors.
Front page displays allows you to choose what appears on the blog’s front: the latest posts or a static page that you have created in the Pages section of your blog. (See also Post vs. Page.)
Blog pages show at most lets you set how many blog posts will be displayed per page.
Syndication feeds show the most recent lets you set how many blog posts will be sent out at once via your RSS feed (located at http://YOUR-DOMAIN.wordpress.com/feed).
For each article in a feed you can select Full text or Summary. Full text means that the entire contents of a post are included in the feed. Summary means that only the first 55 words are included in the feed.
Which option to use is a matter of some debate. Take a look at Problogger’s view and that of Feedster for some more information.
Note that this setting also affects what users receive in their email subscriptions.
For each article in an enhanced feed is a setting that allow you to show other items in your feed. You can choose to display categories, tags, the number of comments, and some social web links.
* Note that changes to an enhanced feed may not appear in feed readers until you create a new post or your news reader refreshes. This setting does not affect posts displayed on the blog.
Encoding for pages and feeds lets you change the character encoding you write your blog in (UTF-8 is recommended).
Email Settings
You can change the invitation text sent out to email subscribers:
WordPress will automatically add on subscription details.
Video
Watch the “Changing your reading settings” video from WordPress.tv.
Last modified: January 7, 2010
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