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
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