The Posts Block

📝 Note: These blocks are part of the Otter Blocks plugin, which you can get from here. 

📝 Note: The blocks' appearance can be improved using the Otter features, such as Transform to Sticky, Visibility conditions, Dynamic Values or Images, as well as Counting / Typing / Loading animations, and Patterns.

The Posts block allows displaying a certain number of posts on different pages.

The specific customizations available for this block cover four areas:

• Styles - can be opened from the pencil icon too. 
  • Grid - display the posts one next to the other.
  • List - display the posts one by one, in a list.

• Post Types 
  • Post Type - select the types of posts: Post / Page  / Product.

• Settings
  • Columns - insert the number of columns.
  • Order By - select the order of the posts to be displayed: Newest to oldest / Oldest to newest / A - Z / Z - A.
  • Categories - insert the categories of the posts, separated with commas or Enter key.
  • Number of items - choose the number of items to be displayed.
  • Offset - number of posts to displace or pass over.

• Design & Layout
  • Customize the Image / Category / Title / Meta / Description
  • Visibility - control the visibility of the elements by clicking on the 👁️ icon.
  • Reorder the elements with a drag and drop movement.

Customizing the elements of the posts

Under the Design & Layout tab you will find a lot of options to customize the elements of the post. You can rearrange the order of the posts' elements or change their visibility.

Image

• Image Size - adjust the size of the posts images, by choosing a predefined size from the drop-down list.
• Crop image to fit - enable this to crop the image.
• Display box shadow - adds a shadow to the image.
• Border Radius - rounds the corners of the image.
• Image Width - adjust the width of the image using the slider.
  • 📝Note: If the Crop image to fit option is enabled, this one will not have an effect.

Title

• Title Tag - modify the tag of the title by choosing one from the list ( H1, H2, ...).
• Font Size - use the slider to adjust the size of the title.

Meta

This panel contains the available meta and option to enable / disable them:

• Display post date
• Display author
• Display comments
• Display Category

Description

• Excerpt Limit - limits the length of the post's content in the block.
• Display read more link - enable this option to add the Read more link.
• Font size - use the slider to adjust the font size of the content.

📝 Note: To add more fields, activate the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.