Customizing and Extending WordPress

The default number of posts per page is usually 5 or 10. This is controlled in the WordPress admin under Settings > Reading -- it's the setting called "Blog pages show at most"

Even though it's called number of posts per page, it doesn't always mean per page; it will frequently also apply to any area on a page where you have posts listed.

Always check that setting to see if the current value matches up with what you're seeing on your site, then edit it however you see fit, but try to avoid specifying more than 30 or 40, as too large of a number will result in slower page load times.

When using a page builder, like Beaver Builder, you'll find that their post or content modules will allow you to specify an override. That way for each module you insert on a page, you can select the number of posts that will be displayed.

If you're using the paid / premium version of BeaverBuilder (or just about any page builder) a Contact Form module is built in!  Simply go to the page you want to insert the contact form within, choose Beaver Builder to edit the page, then drag and drop the Contact module to the part of the page on which you wish to insert it.

If you're not using the paid version of BeaverBuilder, or if you'd like more advanced form building capabilities, there's numerous form plugins available for WordPress. We use WPForms the most because it makes creating a contact form dead simple.

A free version is available for basic contact form functionality, but if you want more advanced features, you'll have to pony up for their paid version.

Once you've installed and activated WPForms, click on it in the WordPress admin menu, then choose Add New to create your new form. They have a pre-built contact form template ready to go.

Once your form is ready, you can either:

1. Grab the shortcode for it and copy and paste it into the part of the page you want it showing on, or
2. Edit the page you wish to add the form to, either with Beaver Builder or the Block Editor. Within either page editor you can search for the WPForms module/block and insert that into the page, then select the form you just created from its dropdown menu. It will then appear on the page.

That's it! You've now got a contact form ready to roll.

If your theme provides a site-wide sidebar that has different (usually global) content from the usual page content, you won't be able to edit that sidebar content while editing the page itself. Instead you'll find that under Appearance > Widgets.

From there you can drag and drop to change the order of things or add your own choice of widgets.