This setting controls how many entries are displayed by the MTEntries tag when no other attributes are included with the tag. You can choose either a specific number of entries or a time frame. The latter will display all entries with an Authored on date within that window.

This is a required field.

Note that the days option means consecutive days and not the last N days on which you posted an entry. A "day" is defined as the time from 24 hours ago to now, where "now" is the time when the page is rebuilt or compiled dynamically.

As an example, if you are including 1 day on your index and you posted an entry one day at 6 PM, that entry will show up in any rebuild of that template until the next day at 5:59 PM.