How to Fix Blogger Only Showing One Post on the Homepage

In plain words: If your Blogger homepage is only displaying your single most recent post—even though your settings tell it to show 5 or 10 posts—it is because your latest post is too long. Blogger has an invisible data limit for the homepage. To fix this, you must use the Jump Break tool in the post editor to cut off the text and force a "Read More" button to appear.

Maintaining a blog is a great way to share your knowledge, but wrestling with platform glitches can be incredibly frustrating. One of the most common issues Blogger (Blogspot) users face is the disappearing homepage feed.

You publish a brand new, highly detailed article, but when you check your homepage, all of your older posts have vanished. Only your newest post is showing. You check your Layout settings, and it clearly says "Show 7 Posts on Homepage." So, what is going wrong?

Why Does This Happen?

Blogger enforces a strict pagination limit based on data size (usually around 1 MB per page) rather than just a strict post count. If your newest blog post has a lot of heavy text, high-resolution images, or dense HTML formatting, it consumes the entire data allowance for the homepage. Blogger reacts by simply not loading the older posts to prevent the page from crashing.

The Solution: Using the Jump Break

To fix this, you need to tell Blogger to only load a small preview of your post on the homepage, rather than the entire massive article. You do this by inserting a Jump Break.

Step-by-Step Fix:

1. Log in to your Blogger dashboard and click on Posts.
2. Click to edit your most recently published post.
3. Place your cursor right after the first or second paragraph of your text.
4. In the formatting toolbar at the top of the editor, look for the Insert Jump Break icon (it looks like a page torn in half with a line through it). Click it.
5. You will see a gray line appear across your text. Everything above this line will show on the homepage; everything below it will be hidden behind a "Read More" button.
6. Click Update to save the post.

Check Older Posts

If fixing the newest post didn't entirely solve the problem, the issue is likely cascading down from your older posts.

• Go to your live homepage and scroll to the very bottom.
• Identify the last post that is currently visible.
• Go back to your Blogger dashboard, open that specific post, and insert a Jump Break after the first paragraph.
• Repeat this process for your older, heavy posts until your homepage accurately displays the number of posts you defined in your Layout settings.

Blogger Trap: Copy and Pasting Text
If you write your posts in Microsoft Word or Google Docs and paste them directly into Blogger, you are often pasting thousands of lines of invisible, heavy HTML formatting code. This bloats your post size and triggers the homepage limit instantly. Always paste your text as Plain Text (Ctrl+Shift+V), and then use Blogger's native tools to add your bolding and headers!

Core Takeaway: To ensure your Blogger homepage always displays correctly, make it a standard habit to insert a Jump Break after the introduction of every single post you publish.

Final Thoughts

By implementing the Jump Break tool, you not only fix the missing posts error but also dramatically improve your homepage loading speed and user experience. Readers can now easily scan the titles and introductions of your articles without having to scroll past walls of text and images.