This document summarizes the Reading settings options in WordPress. It describes how to choose whether posts or a static page display on the front page. It also explains how to set the number of posts displayed on blog pages and feeds, whether to show full text or summaries in feeds, and the character encoding for pages and feeds. The document ends by reminding the user to save any changes made to the settings.

1. Reading
(settings->reading)

3. Settings → Reading
Reading subpanel have few options but very important to decide
about the posts or a static page which should displayed in your blog
front page. As you can adjust how many post to be displayed as well
as you can add rss feed features determine the information from your
site sent to a reader's web browser.

4. Reading Settings
Front page displays
This setting defines the options to be choose posts or static page to be display in the blog's front
page. It will be display once you have more pages, take a note that by using front page plugins and
other posts display control/restriction plugins will be show the effects of front page.
Your latest posts - By clicking radio button your latest posts displayed on the front page.
A static page - By clicking static page option to be displayed as the front page.
Static page contains two types
i)Front page - Select the actual page option in the drop-down box to be
display as front page,if the option does not select it will take defaultly show the posts
in the blog's front page as well as the posts page.if you create a static home page
template file do not name it as home.php
Posts page - Once you select the page option that contains posts in the
dropdown box ,your post will have the additional display option via other navigation
features such as category ,calendar or archive links.

5. Blog pages show at most
• [ x] posts - Enter the number of posts to be displayed, per page, on your site.
Syndication feeds show the most recent
[ x ] posts - Enter the number of posts people will see when they download one of your site's
feeds.
For each article in a feed, show
Determines whether or not the feed will include the full article or just a summary.
• Full text - Click this radio button to include the full content of each post
• Summary - Click this radio button include a summary of the post. This could save
bandwidth.

6. Encoding for pages and feeds
Enter the character encoding to set the choice of languages in which you, the other
authors, and your commenters, can write. The default (and safe choice) is "UTF-8" , as
that encoding supports a wide variety of languages. If you wish to use some other
character encoding (for example you have imported or will import articles written
using a different character encoding) then specify that here. Caution should be used
when changing this field as it may change the way information is displayed on your
blog.
Save Changes
Click the Save Changes button to ensure any changes you have made to your Settings are
saved to your database. Once you click the button, a confirmation text box will appear at the
top of the page telling you your settings have been saved.