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 2.9.5 Deployment
    by Christina Reeser
    Our primary development effort continues to be the creation of new themes that will gradually replace the aging ones in our repository. With that as our focus, todays deployment consisted primarily of maintenance for our existing plugins, along with style, accessibility and bug fixes. Amidst these ongoing endeavors, we did squeeze in a few noteworthy […]
  • WP 2.9.4 Deployment
    by Mark Anderson
    Most of our recent work continues to focus on accessibility, improving code quality and maintenance, but we do have an exciting new feature that we’d like to share with you. Introducing QR Codes We’ve gotten requests for guidance around creating QR Codes for promoting University events and thought an easy WordPress integration would be a […]
  • New Features: QR Code Generator & Image Expand on Click
    by Lisa Perriello
    Most of our recent work has been focused on accessibility, improving code quality and maintenance, but we do have a few exciting new features that we’d like to share with you: QR Code Generator: We’ve gotten requests for guidance around creating QR Codes for promoting University events and thought an easy WordPress integration would be […]
  • WP 2.9.3 Deployment
    by Mark Anderson
    Today’s WordPress deployment again focused on accessibility, improving the code quality of our custom plugins as well as general maintenance. Download Media Items in a CSV If you spend much time in the WordPress Media Library, you may notice a new “Download CSV” button there. This is a small addition that came from a user […]
  • WP Deployment 2.9.2
    by Lisa Perriello
    Today’s WordPress deployment was a more technical one where we handled many plugin updates, took care of additional accessibility changes, and improved code quality behind the scenes. We are also bidding farewell to the ZenDesk plugin and evaluating a new chat plugin replacement. As always, if you have any questions or issues, reach out to […]

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).