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How are the posts selected for listing? Is it possible to make it a random, changeable, selection? For example, I have over 200 blogs posts, and I’d like to be able to change the website listing on occasion, in Latest News or the Feature Block. I know I can do that with creative categories, but that could interfere with the search function…
Thanks
LindaHello @lindaje ,
We have different section in the theme where you can select the category that you want to display . So if there are more no of posts then, the only way you could sort out is by categorizing the post and display in the particular section .
Also we are not quite clear with your search query . Whatever you search through the search section that will be displayed in search page . So please explain your query properly so that we could help you with this .
Hope this helps .
Best Regards!!
Have a good day 🙂
In the Feature block on the front page, the system displays the 3 most recent posts of the category I selected. How do I display the 4,5 and 6th most recent posts of that category instead of the first 3?
If I set them to a different category, the search feature is affected.
LindaHello @lindaje ,
The feature to control the no of post to display in Featured block section is already provided within the theme .
For this you simply need to go to Admin Panel > Appearance > Customize > Featured Block > Featured Block Type > No Of Block . From here you can manage the no of post to display .
If you categorized the post to certain category and if you search that post it will be displayed in the search page . No matter what you search through search section it will be listed in search page if it is available within the theme .
Hope this clears the confusion .
Any further issues are always welcome 🙂 .
Best Regards!!
Thank you. I do understand how posts are selected. BUT, I need to have a way to randomly select from within the category. For example, if I have 10 posts about ‘category x’ and I’m displaying 4 posts on the site, and then I want to change those 4 posts, the only way to do that is to change the category on the first four posts to something different. But the problem then comes in when a reader wants to search for ‘category x’ They will miss the first 4, which now have a different category. Is it possible for the theme to randomly select posts within a category, at the command of the administrator, so the posts change on the website but the categories remain intact.
Hope that clears up the question.Thanks
LHello @lindaje ,
To select the post randomly from the category of featured block section paste below given code in your child theme functions.php file .
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3af4ad554e13156d498576c4852e311e
This will randomly list the post from the category that you have choose to display in featured block section .
Hope this helps .
Best Regards!!
Thank you. I don’t have a child theme and I won’t mess in the editor. Ever. But thanks for the information. I hope you consider putting this into any new releases of this theme; it’s rather important that the information displayed be changeable without having to do a lot of work with the categories.
I’d suggest a ‘switch’ or something the user can choose ‘select random posts’ or ‘show the posts in reverse date order, latest first’..
LindaHello @lindaje,
We will definitely note this as an requested feature 🙂 .
If you have any confusion further please do not hesitate to post .
Best Regards!!
Have a good day .
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