Hi Ruth,

I've checked your site and it seems it behaves like you want... so have you already resolved your issue?

CMSTreeMenu result can be limited only depth-wise (property Maximum Nesting Level).
Number of the returned items is restricted using "Select top N documents" setting in repeater and datalist webparts.

If the article link in the recent articles list is clicked, the particular article page with its page template is opened, so it depends on the page template used for that page (and on repeater's "selected item transformation"), what will be displayed. Something can be achieved using "Hide in subpages" webpart setting etc.. Could you please describe your scenario and problems in more details?
Thank you.

Kind regards,
Zdenek C.