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title: "How to change the Default List Limit in Joomla 3.1"
description: "There are many places within Joomla 3.0's Control Panel in which there are things listed. For example, when you're within your Article Manager, you will see a list of articles on the page. Joomla 3.0..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/default-list-limit/
date: 2012-08-09
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 3"]
tags: ["Joomla v3"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to change the Default List Limit in Joomla 3.1

[![setting-default-list-limit](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_setting-default-list-limit.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_setting-default-list-limit.gif)

There are many places within Joomla 3.0’s Control Panel in which there are things listed. For example, when you’re within your *Article Manager*, you will see a list of articles on the page. Joomla 3.0 gives you the option to set how many items will be listed by default. This setting is referred to as **Default List Limit**, and Joomla gives the following description of the setting:

**Default List Limit**:
*Sets the default length of lists in the Control Panel for all users.*

The following options are available:

- 5
- 10
- 15
- 20
- 25
- 30
- 50
- 100

The default option for *Default List Limit* is 20.

## Changing the Default List Limit setting:

1. [Log into your Joomla 3.0 Control Panel](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/)
2. In the left menu, click the link labeled **Global Configuration**
3. Several tabs will be listed at the top of the page. Make sure you are on the *Site* tab by clicking **Site**
4. Under the *Site Settings* heading, find the setting labeled **Default List Limit**. Use the drop down menu to make your desired change, and then click the **Save** button in the top left of the page. In our testing, we changed the *Default List Limit* from 20 to 5. You can see in the screenshots below how this has affected our *Article Manager* page. Default List Limit: 20 Default List Limit: 5 [![default-list-limit-set-to-20](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_default-list-limit-set-to-20.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_default-list-limit-set-to-20.gif) While we only have 8 articles, all 8 articles are shown. If we had 30 articles, only 20 of them would show. [![default-list-limit-set-to-5](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_default-list-limit-set-to-5.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/edu_joomla-3_global-configuration_default-list-limit-set-to-5.gif) Even though we have 8 articles, only 5 are showing in the list of articles. The other articles can be found using the pagination feature at the bottom of the page.