Missing Blog Posts? How to Fix a Common Blogger Bug

Ever had one of those days where your blog just isn't cooperating? I had one yesterday! I noticed my main page was only showing 5 posts, even though I had set it to display 6 or more. I tried changing the settings to 7, 8, 9, 10, and even 12 posts, but still, only 5 would appear.

After some digging, I found out why. According to DarkUFO, if some of your blog posts are very long, your website template might be trying to load all of them on the homepage at once. This can cause it to "time out," and as a result, the last post simply doesn't show up. This made perfect sense to me, as one of my latest posts was indeed quite long, and it was always the last one that went missing.

Sadly, this isn't a new issue. This bug has affected other bloggers in the past, and it's a bit disappointing that Blogger developers haven't fully resolved it yet. It can happen whether you're using a standard Blogger template or a custom one, especially if one or two of your most recent posts are very long.

Thankfully, there's a solution! To solve this problem, you can use a simple trick involving the "jump break" or "read more" code within your articles. This code makes your homepage load faster by only showing the title and image of an article, rather than the entire long post. It loads only the essential parts needed for the homepage, preventing those timeouts.

1. Adding a page break in your long post(s). See below screenshot:

2. Adding a "more" code at the beginning of your long post(s). Edit your very large post(s), go to HTML mode, and add the "more" at the very beginning of your post. See below screenshot:

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The "more" code above the article speeds up the homepage loading by only loading the parts of the article that are required for the homepage. That is the title and image.

My blog's problem is now resolved, and my posts are all showing up as they should!

Did these methods work for you? Let me know in the comment section.

Sources:

1. Hayes, B. Z. (2019, September 12). How to increase the number of posts showing up on the home page for the soho theme? - Blogger Community [Discussion Post]. Retrieved from https://support.google.com/blogger/thread/14139219?hl=en.
2. Anuar, K. (2017, June 19). Blogger main page doesn't show more than 12 posts - Web Applications Stack Exchange [Discussion Post]. Retrieved from https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/104930/blogger-main-page-doesnt-show-more-than-12-posts.