How to Customize Your Blogroll or Posts Page Using Blocks in Wordpress
It's time for your daily dose of Wordpress Wisdom! In today's quick tutorial I'll show you how to customize your blogroll or posts page using a very handy block in the block editor called "Latest Posts". The great thing is this works whether you use a simple blogroll as your homepage or if you're using a static page as well.
Want to have a "featured post" at the top of your blogroll? Want to display your content in a grid by categories? There is a ton of customizability to this block so you can use it in any number of ways to deliver your content to your audience in a much more dynamic, sleek, and fully customized way.
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Hey Eric.
Thank you for this excellent tutorial. I have the result I want.... for now, I decided not to put a Feature post at the top.
In my Reading Settings, I set up a static page. (I'll write content on it soon)
My Posts page shows -Select -
So the way I understand this is, I don't need to have anything in "My Posts Page". Is this right?
Monica
If you’ve created a blog page and that’s what you’re linking to from your menu and it’s updating as you create new content then you’ve basically replaced your blogroll 👍🏼
Hi Eric.
Yes, I created a blog page and it's linking to my menu. I put in a test blog, attached it to a category, and published it and it works perfectly. It's working like yours. So it replaced my blogroll... yeaaa 💃
Thank you! Have a wonderful rest of the week.
Monica
I have one problem, I have this setup to take all of my posts in the blog roll, but I only get five of them. Even if I change the settings where it is supposed to have only three, I still have five. I have eight posts and the three older ones show being archive. Could that be my problem?
By default all your posts will display on your blog roll. There is no setting you have to change. Pages like the Affiliate Disclosure, Privacy Policy, etc., do not appear in your blog roll.
I'm getting so goofed up on this Eric. I've rewatched it now at least 5 times. It goes too fast for me. Now all my posts are "featured" and I'm trying to figure out how to fix that.
I finally noticed that you clicked on "quick edit". That made all the difference! Hadn't used that feature yet. Thank you Eric!
haha that's the beauty of video, you can watch and rewatch and even slow it down all the way to 1/2 speed. Glad you figure it out! Good job!
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Very helpful info Eric! I just might change my blogroll to something similar to what you've shown here. I really like the way it looks and readers wouldn't have to scroll down through post after post like they do with it in a single roll.
Thanks for sharing! Awesome work!
Best wishes :) ~Sherry
Glad you enjoyed it!