How to show more than 30 categories on Classic SharePoint blog/news sites?

Time needed: 10 minutes

How to modify the Post list’s view to show more categories

1. Create a new view for the blog post items list

   Changing the settings for the list viewer web part is simple enough. But first, you’ll need to create a new view that we’ll be using for this web part. To do that, you’ll need to open the “Categories” list for your blog web (it’s usually in an URL like “/Lists/Categories/AllCategories.aspx”).
   
   When there, just create a new view (you can base it on “All Categories” or create it from the scratch), set most of the settings to be whatever you want, but be mindful to set the “Item limit” to 99, and for the mobile view too! (see below)
   
   
   Creating a new view for the XSLT web part – 99 is the max number of items!
   
   Click “OK” to save it.
   
   

2. Open the Categories webpart in edit mode

   Great – now we’ve got the view, and we’ll just have to use it!
   
   To achieve this, first, you’ll need to open the page in edit mode and edit the web part.
   
   
   How to edit Categories -web part

3. Change the view of the Categories that webpart is using

   Then, you’ll want to select the new view you created and set it as the default one for this web part.
   
   Edit the view settings for the web part

4. Edit the webpart EVERYWHERE

   Now, there’s one more tricky part – you need to realize that you’ll actually have to do this for 4 different pages.
   
   The default.aspx (blog home page), Post.aspx (page for viewing posts by ID), Category.aspx (page for filtering by category) and Date.aspx (page for filtering by month).
   
   That’s a lot of pages to edit, but at least it’s a simple change!