Blog

Description and Code

The blog shortcode allows you to pull in blog posts and display them in a number of styles. Here's an example of the shortcode in code view:

[blog_component layout="1-column" number_posts="1" cat_slug="" exclude_cats="" show_title="yes" title_link="yes" thumbnail="yes" excerpt="yes" excerpt_length="35" strip_html="yes" meta_all="yes" meta_author="yes" meta_date="yes" meta_comments="yes" meta_categories="yes" meta_tags="yes" meta_link="yes" pagination="yes" scrolling="pagination" class="" id=""][/blog_component]

Parameters

• layout
  • controls the grid layout of the blog shortcode
  • Possible values - 1-column, 2-column or 3-column

• number_posts
  • controls how many posts to display in the blog shortcode
  • Possible values - number - like 5, 10, 20, etc.

• cat_slug
  • defines the categories to include in the output
  • Possible values - array - like category 1, category 2 etc.

• exclude_cats
  • defines the categories to exclude in the output, cat_slug value must be defined
  • Possible values - array - like category 1, category 2 etc.

• show_title
  • defines if display the blog post titles
  • Possible values - yes or no

• title_link
  • defines if the blog post titles will link to the single post
  • Possible values - yes or no

• thumbnail
  • enables/disables the featured images in the blog posts
  • Possible values - yes or no

• excerpt
  • enables/disables the excerpt of blog posts
  • Possible values - yes or no

• excerpt_length
  • defines the post excerpt maximum words/characters number
  • Possible values - number - like 5, 10, 20, etc.

• strip_html
  • enables/disables the HTML stripping in excerpts
  • Possible values - yes or no

• meta_all
  • controls visibility of the post meta datas
  • Possible values - yes or no

• meta_author
  • enables/disables the post author in meta
  • Possible values - yes or no

• meta_date
  • enables/disables the post date in meta
  • Possible values - yes or no

• meta_comments
  • enables/disables the post comments in meta
  • Possible values - yes or no

• meta_categories
  • enables/disables the post categories in meta
  • Possible values - yes or no

• meta_tags
  • enables/disables the post tags in meta
  • Possible values - yes or no

• meta_link
  • enables/disables the Read More button in meta
  • Possible values - yes or no

• pagination
  • enables/disables the blog posts pagination
  • Possible values - yes or no

• scrolling
  • defines the style of the blog pagination
  • Possible values - pagination, number_pagination or infinite

• class
  • custom class for CSS of component
  • Possible values - string - like custom-element-class

• id
  • custom ID for CSS of component
  • Possible values - string - like custom-element-id

Examples

1 Column

2 Columns

3 Columns

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