Latest Posts

The latest posts block displays your most recent posts, making it easy for your readers to see what’s new on your blog.

  • WP 2.10.3 Deployment – Introducing our new Staff List Block
    by Christina Reeser
    In this weeks deployment we are releasing a major update to our Staff List Block. After listening to your feedback, this 2.0 version contains numerous features and enhancements designed to make the Staff List Block more useful and attractive. What’s New in Version 2.0? How to Upgrade Aside from picking up the new styles, […]
  • New Features: Vertical Videos, Full-Width Blog Posts & More!
    by Lisa Perriello
    We have a few exciting new features that we’d like to share with you: Vertical Video Support: With the popularity of vertical video on social media, we’ve added support to our theme so you can properly display your new videos on your website. Check out the video page on the guide for more information […]
  • WP 2.10.1 Deployment
    by Christina Reeser
    Introducing wide width posts Today’s deployment introduces more flexibility for blog posts. Previously, sidebar visibility could be toggled on individual posts. Now, a new global Show/Hide Sidebar option allows you to disable the sidebar for all posts by default. This change won’t affect existing posts but sets a global preference for new ones, which […]
  • WordPress admin outage and database rollback
    by Lisa Perriello
    We want to inform you of an important issue regarding the UA WordPress system. Due to an unexpected problem, we needed to roll back the WordPress database to 11:30 p.m. today. Unfortunately, this means that any work done after this time will be lost. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. It’s possible that […]
  • WP 2.10.0 Deployment
    by Christina Reeser
    In today’s deployment we upgraded to WordPress 6.5 which brings speed, security and accessibility improvements. There are a few features worth mentioning: Feel free to reach out using the Web Request Form if you have any questions.

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

“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

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).