I have set the VC Recent Posts to show 3 recent posts and be in a 3/4 + 1/4 (its in the 3/4 section) but its showing 4 articles in a width that fits the 3/4 (must be 30.6666%)

When i change to text view this is what the row is:
[vc_row][vc_column width="3/4"][recent_posts type="post" count="3" orientation="horizontal"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/4"][button shape="rounded" size="regular" float="none" block="true" info="none" info_place="top" info_trigger="hover" href="http://919freshfm.com.au/shop/"]DONATE TODAY![/button][button shape="rounded" size="regular" float="none" block="true" info="none" info_place="top" info_trigger="hover" href="http://919freshfm.com.au/contact-the-dj"]CONTACT THE DJ[/button][button shape="rounded" size="regular" float="none" block="true" info="none" info_place="top" info_trigger="hover" href="#text-8"]SHARE YOUR STORY[/button][/vc_column][/vc_row]

The site is 919freshfm.com.au and its the recent posts that are directly below the slider – you cant miss them 🙂

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Please add the code below in your functions.php.

function x_shortcode_recent_posts_no_sticky( $atts ) {
  extract( shortcode_atts( array(
    'id'          => '',
    'class'       => '',
    'style'       => '',
    'type'        => '',
    'count'       => '',
    'category'    => '',
    'offset'      => '',
    'orientation' => '',
    'no_image'    => '',
    'fade'        => ''
  ), $atts ) );

  $id            = ( $id          != ''          ) ? 'id="' . esc_attr( $id ) . '"' : '';
  $class         = ( $class       != ''          ) ? 'x-recent-posts cf ' . esc_attr( $class ) : 'x-recent-posts cf';
  $style         = ( $style       != ''          ) ? 'style="' . $style . '"' : '';
  $type          = ( $type        == 'portfolio' ) ? 'x-portfolio' : 'post';
  $count         = ( $count       != ''          ) ? $count : 3;
  $category      = ( $category    != ''          ) ? $category : '';
  $category_type = ( $type        == 'post'      ) ? 'category_name' : 'portfolio-category';
  $offset        = ( $offset      != ''          ) ? $offset : 0;
  $orientation   = ( $orientation != ''          ) ? ' ' . $orientation : ' horizontal';
  $no_image      = ( $no_image    == 'true'      ) ? $no_image : '';
  $fade          = ( $fade        == 'true'      ) ? $fade : 'false';

  $output = "<div {$id} class=\"{$class}{$orientation}\" {$style} data-fade=\"{$fade}\">";

    $q = new WP_Query( array(
      'orderby'          => 'date',
      'post_type'        => "{$type}",
      'posts_per_page'   => "{$count}",
      'offset'           => "{$offset}",
      "{$category_type}" => "{$category}",
      'post__not_in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' )
    ) );

    if ( $q->have_posts() ) : while ( $q->have_posts() ) : $q->the_post();

      if ( $no_image == 'true' ) {
        $image_output       = '';
        $image_output_class = 'no-image';
      } else {
        $image_output       = '<div class="x-recent-posts-img">' . get_the_post_thumbnail( get_the_ID(), 'entry-' . x_get_option( 'x_stack', 'integrity' ) . '-cropped', NULL ) . '</div>';
        $image_output_class = 'with-image';
      }

      $output .= '<a class="x-recent-post' . $count . ' ' . $image_output_class . '" href="' . get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '" title="' . esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Permalink to: "%s"', '__x__' ), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) ) ) . '">'
                 . '<article id="post-' . get_the_ID() . '" class="' . implode( ' ', get_post_class() ) . '">'
                   . '<div class="entry-wrap">'
                     . $image_output
                     . '<div class="x-recent-posts-content">'
                       . '<h3 class="h-recent-posts">' . get_the_title() . '</h3>'
                       . '<span class="x-recent-posts-date">' . get_the_date() . '</span>'
                     . '</div>'
                   . '</div>'
                 . '</article>'
               . '</a>';

    endwhile; endif; wp_reset_postdata();
  
  $output .= '</div>';

  return $output;
}

add_shortcode( 'recent_posts_no_sticky', 'x_shortcode_recent_posts_no_sticky' );

Then, use the shortcode

[recent_posts_no_sticky type="post" category="" count="2" orientation="horizontal"]

It is the same as the [recent_posts] shortcode except that it doesn’t allow sticky posts to be displayed.

We’ll take note of this issue and might include this bit in a future release.

Hope that helps. 🙂

BUT I don’t want to have to do this everytime I make a change.

I have also uninstalled and re-installed Visual Composer the issue remains

I also have the newest version of X Theme 4.0.5

It is showing three because you have three recent_posts shortcode with count=1

http://screencast.com/t/kDcdOmpp8

I also created a test page to show that recent posts count is working

http://naz-sect.com/xtest/

Kindly delete it after you check.

Thanks

The issue is only on the home page, other pages work fine.

I have my recent posts count set to “1”, but it is showing 3 posts on my home page, please check again.

This seems to be a bug, when I checked in classic mode > text editor there is no count attribute in the recent posts shortcode.

I will forward this to our web development team as a bug, for the mean time you can add the count manually to your recent posts shortcode in classic mode.

http://screencast.com/t/TxkTOyibv

[recent_posts offset="1" count="1"]

Thanks