Limiting number of posts on Home page

[neurosci]

Hello,
here's my site: http://luisosio.com

Just curious to know how to limit the number of blog posts on the home page (very bottom).

I'm guessing it's somewhere in "homepagebottom"?


Here's my code:

    <div id="homepagebottom">
      <?php $featured_cat_1 = get_option('agent_featured_cat_1'); $featured_cat_1_num = get_option('agent_featured_cat_1_num'); if(!$featured_cat_1) $featured_cat_1 = 1; //setting a default ?>
      <?php $recent = new WP_Query("cat=".$featured_cat_1."&showposts=".$featured_cat_1_num); while($recent->have_posts()) : $recent->the_post();?>
      <div class="section">
        <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
          <?php the_title(); ?>
          </a></h3>
        <?php if( get_post_meta($post->ID, "thumbnail", true) ): ?>
        [img]<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, [/img]" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" />
        <?php else: ?>
        <?php endif; ?>
        <?php the_content_limit(400, "[Read more]"); ?>
        <div style="clear:both;"></div>
      </div>
      <?php endwhile; ?>
    </div>

Thanks