Just after the blog posts lists but on another page!

jpmoriarty
(@jpmoriarty)

2 months, 1 week ago

Apologies, this is driving me insane but I must be doing something ridiculously wrong or missing the most basic of steps, because I can’t believe I can’t work out how to do it!

I have my site (link as above) that I’m running for a local club, and I currently have it set so that the home page is displaying the recent posts (settings > reading > homepage displays “latest posts”). It’s a nice theme that I’m using (Newsical which I think uses MoreNews as its base) and I’m very happy with it (the sizing is nice, it’s got the categories overlaid on the image, the heading and author display works nicely – they’ve just done a good job with it).

I *just* want to know how do i get that same formatted list of blog posts to appear on another page?!?! whenever I try and use the blocks it gives me a bulleted list of titles, or i can tweak the settings so I get a title and maybe the main image, but I can’t find anywhere that will give me a list exactly like it is now on that home page. All I want to do is add some text above the blog posts, maybe an image carousel, and then have the blog posts. But as soon as I set up a new page, I cannot for the life of me get that same formatted list of blog posts. A few sites, and GPTs, have directed me towards some shortcodes and then customising CSS to replicate what’s on there now, but I can’t believe that’s necessary, is it??!

I presume somewhere there’s a template file that I just want to reuse so I can keep the site consistent – I can’t imagine I need to back-engineer the CSS and HTML, surely!?!? I’ve looked in the patterns list, but there’s nothing there that matches. I’m guessing there’s perhaps some code i need to put in that calls the relevant template file and loads the posts into it – but I also think even that must be too complicated for what must be a fairly common feature expectation? Is there some block or shortcode that I’m missing? Perhaps a plugin that I need (WHY??!??!) or could use that adds this functionality?

Any help you can provide would be really very gratefully received! Thanks in advance,

John

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Yohan Dalpatadu
(@yohandalpe)

2 months, 1 week ago
Hi @jpmoriarty, I went through your theme developer’s documentation. You must create two pages: Home and Blog (name them as you wish). Then go to Settings > Reading > Under Your homepage displays, tick “A static page”, and select Home for the homepage and Blog for the Posts page. This way, you can have the same formatted list on the home page and another page. I hope this resolves your issue.
- This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by Yohan Dalpatadu. Reason: removed bold styling
Ioana
(@ioanamuresan)

2 months, 1 week ago

Hey JP!

> how do i get that same formatted list of blog posts to appear on another page

I wonder if this might do the trick for you: head to the 3 dots in the top right corner, then scroll down and select Copy all blocks -> head to the new page you’re creating and paste them there. It should look like this: https://cloudup.com/csywT6o9OV8 (steps 1 and 2)

If simply pasting doesn’t work, you can try step 3 in my screenshot (toggle between the visual editor and the code editor, and paste the blocks in the code editor, then head back to the visual editor to make any changes.

Hope this helps 🙂
Thread Starter jpmoriarty
(@jpmoriarty)

2 months, 1 week ago
Thanks @yohandalpe – i hadn’t realised it could do that, but unfortunately even so I can’t do what I want! That’s just moved those blog posts to another page, I still can’t edit the page so that I can put other things around them. Which leads to @ioanamuresan’s comment – and again thanks for the response. The problem is the page showing the posts appears as blank when I view it in block view. I get the header message that says “You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts.”, but there’s no blocks or code that’s visible that provides the call for the posts, so again I can’t edit it. When I view the page on the site though (https://www.j-moriarty.co.uk/chelt-harriers/blog-posts/), sure enough it’s pulling in the blog posts.
- This reply was modified 2 months, 1 week ago by jpmoriarty. Reason: retrying adding picture to post - but still doesn't work!
Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)
(@otto42)

WordPress.org Admin

2 months, 1 week ago

It seems fairly clear that that is not a block theme. It’s a classic theme.

You have to edit it directly. If you want to change things, you cannot just use blocks for it. If you want a theme that you don’t need to edit code with, use an actual block based theme and not a classic theme.