Our final deployment of the year went live today, wrapping up 2024 with a focus on maintenance and stability improvements. This release primarily addresses plugin updates, bug fixes, and some important server optimizations. What’s New Thread Social Icon in the Footer For those using Thread Social, you now have the option to add a Thread […]
In this WordPress update (version 2.11.1), we focused on making the websites faster and fixing some bugs. Most of the improvements are behind the scenes, but we did make one noticeable change for website visitors. When you perform a search on an individual website, you’ll now see the search term you entered and the […]
This update brings WordPress 6.6 with exciting new features! Your website’s appearance should remain unchanged on the front end (if you notice any issues, please let us know), but content editors will find plenty of enhancements to explore. Updated Publishing Flow The next time you edit a Page or Post, you’ll notice changes in the […]
Our 2.10.14 deployment brought several plugin updates, including those managing social feeds on our websites. We encountered an issue with Facebook feeds, but it has been resolved. If you’re using social feeds, please remember to periodically check that they’re properly connected and functioning. For instructions and the license key, refer to our guide. Recent […]
Enhanced Story Archive Template Our beautiful Story Archive page template is now more flexible. Rather than displaying all post categories, users can select which categories to display. As a reminder, our Story Archive template displays posts in a photographic grid. Users can click the categories to dynamically filter the visible posts. You can see […]
The latest posts block can be added to a page by clicking on the Add Block button. It can be found in Widgets section. Alternatively, you can type /latest and click on Latest Posts.
You can also choose the Latest Postsfrom the Add Block button.
Detailed instructions on adding blocks can be found here.
Block Toolbar
Each block has its own block-specific controls that allow you to manipulate the block right in the editor.
The block toolbar for the latest posts block has options for:
Changing Alignment
Align left – Make the Latest Post block left aligned
Align center – Make the Latest Post block alignment centered
Align right – Make the Latest Post block align right
Wide width – Increase the width of the Latest Post block beyond the content size
Full width – Extend the Latest Post block to cover the full width of the screen
“Wide width” and “Full width” alignment need to be enabled by the Theme of your site.
List view (default)
List view
Grid view
Grid View
Block Settings
Every block has specific options in the editor sidebar in addition to the options found in the block toolbar. If you do not see the sidebar, simply click the ‘cog’ icon next to the Publish button.
Latest Posts Settings
The Latest Posts Settings allow you to choose how you wish to order the posts, with choices of:
Latest Posts settings
Newest to Oldest (default)
Oldest to Newest
Alphabetical A to Z
Alphabetical Z to A
You also have the option to choose a specific category or subcategory to display the posts from. You may also specify the number of posts to display (if you have fewer posts than the limit, that number of posts will show), as well as toggle the post date on and off.
Post Content: Display the post content under each post.
Display author name: Display the author name under each post.
Display post date: Display the post date under each post.
Feature image settings: Adds the featured image to the left of each post (if on exists).
