How To Create Posts

Posts are individual pieces of content on a page. Often referred to as blog posts or blogs, each post makes up the whole of your blog and can be also used to add news.

How to Create Posts
Steps of How to Create Posts

To add a new post to your page follow the following steps:

Video of How to Create Posts
Posts Carousel View

Display posts or an external blog feed as a carousel.

ADD TITLE
ADD TITLE
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Instructions on how to add Post Carousel

In the Post Carousel block settings, you can customize which posts appear and how they appear, and you can choose different types of content other than posts.

Display Settings

Here, you can choose the filters with which you can customize your posts.

  • Choose Specific Posts: Select the exact posts to display in the slider.
  • Number of items: Control how many posts will be displayed up to a max of 100 (keep in mind that 100 posts at once may considerably slow down your page loading time).
  • Authors: Select specific authors’ posts to be displayed.
  • Categories: Show posts with a specific category only.
  • Tags: Show posts with a specific tag only.

Display Settings to customize Posts

Slideshow Settings
These are the settings which you can customize to adjust the slider:
  • Slide Aspect Ratio: Choose the relationship between the width and height of the images in the slider.
  • Image Fit: Determines if the image will crop to fit, or stretch to fit, the available area.
  • Hide Controls: Remove the play and pause options from the slideshow.
  • Autoplay: Control whether the carousel automatically switches slides (disabled by default).
  • Number of slides to show at once: Choose how many images appear in a single slide (up to a max of 4).

Slideshow settings to customize posts

Meta Settings

Here, you can choose which information appears with your content in the slider:

  • Show Title: Choose if you want to display the post title.
  • Show Date: Controls whether the date will be displayed.
  • Show Category: Controls whether the category will be displayed.
  • Show Author: Controls whether the author’s name will be displayed.
  • Show Author Avatar: Controls whether the author’s profile photo will be displayed.


Various options available for customizing posts

CoBlock Posts View

Display posts in page as stacked or horizontal cards format.

Post For UA (Sample)
Sample Post 2
This is another sample view of a News Item.
Instructions on how to add CoBlocks Posts

Posts List View

Display a list of your most recent posts, excluding sticky posts.

  • Post For UA (Sample)

  • Sample Post 2

  • Sample News

Instructions on how to add Post List Block

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