The most popular way of displaying blog posts is to setup blog index page. There all of your posts will be displayed and ordered by publish date. To set the page as your post page, navigate to Posts page tool in Settings > Reading and choose Blog index page from the ones you created
Note
On Blog index page you will see only your posts, so don’t add any other content to it.
Option to modify the look of the blog page is avaliable under options located in Appearance > Customizing > Blog Settings > Blog posts list.
The Blog posts list provides the following options:
Display blog sidebar: This option allow user to fully remove the sidebar from the Blog page providing a clean view of the posts only.
Place to display: If the sidebar is displayed on the blog page this option will let you to decide if you wish to add them on:
- Left Side
- Right Side
Select width of sidebar: Select totally width of blog sidebar
- 1/4 width of container
- 1/3 width of container
With the option below you will be able to change the settings and position of the sidebar used in the single blog posts.
In Blog content tab you can define the following settings for Blog single page:
- Display blog sidebar - Show on the single post site the dedicated sidebar.
- Place to display sidebar - set the position of the sidebar for the single blog page.
- Social share - Allow to display social Share after post.
- Social share - Choose which socials will be available under each post
- Related articles - Show related articles
- Author info box - Display information about the creator of this post.
- Post navigation - Show navigation to prev and next post under.
- Display comments after post - Allow show/hide comments added by the users and form.
No matter which option of the Place to display sidebar will be set the content visible there can be set in Blog Sidebar that is available on path Appearance > Widgets or via Customize in Widgets tab.
Note
Similar functionality for the Sidebar location is used for single post page. Remember that Blog Page and Blog Post are using the same sidebar ‘Blog Sidebar’.
Socials as the rest of the customize option for blog are available in Customize’s Blog section. Socials can be checked or unchecked to remove them from the single post page. The address of each social can be set via Blog Settings > Single Blog Post > Social Share
Note
Shortcode visible below can’t be used on the Blog or Single post page. Its purpose is to show Latest posts on other pages than the one mentioned above.
Latest Stories
Shortcode allows setting the number of columns in which the latest post will be shown. Also, settings which can be found under the Filter section allow specifying the posts which should be shown in Latest Stories.
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