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Blog Booster Documentation ​

Blog Booster is a Neve PRO feature that enhances your blog and single post pages with additional layout options, post meta controls, and related-post functionality. It is active automatically when Neve Pro is installed and requires no separate module toggle.

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For more details check out the full Neve documentation and Neve PRO documentation.

📝Note: These options are part of just Neve PRO.

Is Blog Booster Enabled? ​

Blog Booster is automatically active whenever the Neve Pro plugin is installed and active on your site. There is no separate activation step required -- it does not appear as a toggleable entry in Neve > Dashboard > Manage Modules.

To access all Blog Booster options, go to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Blog/Archive for blog and archive settings, or Appearance > Customize > Blog > Single Post for single post settings.

📝 Note: If you do not see these options in the Customizer, confirm that Neve Pro is installed and the license is active under Neve > Dashboard.

Blog page ​

Neve PRO brings new options for the Blog page. To access those navigate to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Blog/Archive:

  • Options to customize the featured images of each post: Hover Effect, Image Position (the position of the image, alongside the text) and Image Width. The options can be found under Thumbnail in the Post Content Order option.

  • Options to customize the Read more button style and text. The options can be found under Excerpt in the Post Content Order option.

  • Add an Estimated reading time in each post meta. See Translate the estimated reading time labels to show these labels in your site language.
  • Option to change the default format for each post meta options. The default format is {meta}, which represents a magic tag. You can add your own text before and after this default format.

  • Option to add a new meta option from a Custom Field by clicking on the Add Item button.
  • For Custom Fields, Neve PRO is integrated with ACF, Meta Box, Toolset, and Pods. All fields created with the plugins will be available for selection in the post meta option.

  • Order posts by - Date posted descending, Date posted ascending or Date updated
  • Content Alignment - Left, Center or Right
  • Post Pagination - Number, Infinite Scroll or Number & Search Field
  • Featured Post Alignment options

In the Design tab we can find:

  • List Spacing - the height between posts, when using the List Post Cards Layout.
  • Background Color/Content Padding/Height for the Featured Post area which appears at the top of the Blog page, when enabled.

Category Filtering ​

Blog Booster does not include a native Enable Category Filter toggle. To allow visitors to filter posts by category on your blog archive, use the standard WordPress Categories widget:

  1. Go to Appearance > Widgets (or Appearance > Customize > Widgets if your theme uses the live Customizer).
  2. Select the widget area where you want the filter to appear (for example, Sidebar or Blog Sidebar).
  3. Click Add a Widget (or the + icon) and search for Categories.
  4. Add the Categories widget and configure the display options (show as dropdown, show post counts, show hierarchy) as needed.
  5. Click Save or Publish.

Visitors can then click any category link to view posts filtered by that category.

Single post ​

Neve PRO brings new options for the Single post page. To access those navigate to  Appearance > Customize > Blog > Single Post:

  • Related Posts
  • Sharing Icons
  • Author Biography

  • Add an Estimated reading time in the post meta. See Translate the estimated reading time labels to show these labels in your site language.
  • Option to change the default format for each post meta options. The default format is {meta}, which represents a magic tag. You can add your own text before and after this default format.

  • Option to add a new meta option from a Custom Field or a Custom Taxonomy. by clicking on the Add Item button.
  • For Custom Fields, Neve PRO is integrated with ACF, Meta Box, Toolset, and Pods. All fields created with the plugins will be available for selection in the post meta option.

Translate the estimated reading time labels ​

The Estimated reading time labels are translatable strings provided by the Neve Pro Addon plugin. The translation applies to Estimated reading time on both blog archives and single posts.

First, follow How to translate Themeisle themes and plugins in your own language to install Loco Translate and select your WordPress site language. Then:

  1. Go to Loco Translate > Plugins and select Neve Pro Addon.
  2. Select the language you want to translate, or click New language and choose it.
  3. When creating a new language, choose the Custom save location so your translation is kept separately from the plugin files.

  1. Search for %s min read, enter your translation, and keep %s unchanged. For example, the French translation is %s min de lecture.
  2. Search for Less than 1 min read and enter its translation. For example, the French translation is Moins d’une minute de lecture.
  3. Click Save. If the old English text remains, clear your site and server caches before checking the reading time again.
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