How To Limit the Number of Posts shown in Labels Page

How to limit the number of posts shown under a labels page in a blogger blog.

Depending on the number of posts, your Label list will grow. As you are at liberty to put as many Labels as you can think of for a particular post.

It’s said you can have as many as 500 labels for a single post (but I think nobody has so far reached that figure yet).

If you have been Labeling your blog posts correctly with few labels, then it’s not a problem as long as the number of posts is not very high.

But as your blog grows and you start writing more and more articles, your labels list will grow and grow and ultimately fill up your sidebar.

If you have been following the golden rule of Labeling your Blog post under two categories are Major and Minor categories, then you are well off and probably you know already what this post is all about.

But even then, if you are using Labels as tabs either on the Navigation bar or in the sidebar. And if you click on that particular Label, all the posts under that particular Label will be shown.

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Suppose you have 30 or 40 posts under that Label, imagine how long it will take to load all those pages? that is something no blogger not even you want that.

There’s got to be a way to limit the number of posts to be shown under a Label page.

In Blogger it’s quite easy to limit the number of posts to be displayed per page, but how to limit the number of posts on a Label Page?

In this article, I will show you how you can limit the number of Posts on a Label Page.

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Limit the Number of Posts shown in Labels Page

First Log on to your Blogger account, then go to Dashboard > then to Design > Edit HTML

Before you proceed further please Back up your existing Template to be on the safer side, just in case something goes wrong you can always revert back

Next on the Edit HTML window on the top right corner check the box “Expand Widget”. Now find the following code in your Template.

Press CTRL+F  on your keyboard a small search box will be displayed on your extreme top right corner of the window.

Copy-paste the following code there, the code will be highlighted (as shown below) on your template if found.

expr:href=’data:label.url’

Depending on your Template you may find this code in more than one instance. Replace them with the following code:

expr:href=’data:label.url + “?max-results=5” ‘

If you are using Menu Tabs which links to your Label pages, then the Label Links you are using probably looks like this :

[ http://YOUR BLOG NAME.blogspot.com/search/label/YOUR LABEL NAME ]

 To limit the number of posts shown under a particular Label, we just need to add the following to the link ?max-results=5. So your Label Link should be like this 

[ http://YOUR BLOG NAME.blogspot.com/search/label/YOUR LABEL NAME?max-results=5 ]     

Here the max-result=5 means to show only 5 posts at a time under that particular label link. You can change it to any number you want and then save it then save your template.

I would suggest not to increase the max-results to more than 5 or 6, because the more is the number, the longer it will take to load the pages.

One more thing to remember is that the LABEL menu is case-sensitive, so you must put it as it appears. otherwise, it won’t work.   

Labeling and Categorizing your Blog posts are very important. It not only helps your readers to navigate through your blog but also for the search engines.

Check out: What is A Label? How To Use Labels As Categories On Blogger

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