Post format on individual page

[johnhansen033]

I am using X / Ethos. My default blog posts are showing up with thumbnail to left and title and excerpt on right.

I would like to create this format on a custom page that is pulling posts from a single category or tag. The images are cropped but I actually am good with that. I would also like to round the corners of the thumbnails. Is there an easy way to do this?
Thanks

[mldarshana]

Hi There,

Thanks for writing in! Could you please try our recent post shortocode explained here (http://demo.theme.co/integrity-1/shortcodes/recent-posts/).

To make your thumbnails round, you can add the following CSS rule to the page.

.x-recent-posts-img {
    border-radius: 10px !important;
}

All the parameters accepted by the shortcode is listed on the bottom of the page.

Hope that helps.

[johnhansen033]

I’m sorry but you did not even attempt to answer my primary question. I would like to format my posts to make them look like the default posts on my blog page, but on a seperate custom category page. How do I format image on left with title and excerpt on the right?
thanks.

[basanta]

Hi There,

Sorry for the confusion!

You can create blog archive page which will get the same layout as your blog page.
For that no need to create a page, just go to Appearance -> Menus from the category list add the category item you want to in the menu. So the link will appear in the menu which will behave like a page with particular category post.

If you don’t want that and really need a custom page template with post, that needs custom development. We are really sorry but that is something out of our theme support scope.

Regarding the image rounded corner of the image, please add the below CSS to your X-> Theme Option -> Global CSS and let us know how this goes.

.blog .x-main .hentry>.entry-featured {
border-radious: 8px; /* you can adjust the value*/
overflow: hidden;
}

Thanks

[johnhansen033]

I am again sorry. I do NOT want an archive page. But since this is the format for the default block for my stack I don’t understand why there is not any shortcode to create the same thing to bring consistency to the whole site. I am not asking you to do it for me but give me a clue and some direction. Every time I want to do anything out of the ordinary I am told it is outside of the scope of support. I don’t understand why none of the available shortcodes are not compatible with the default blog formats. It doesn’t make any sense. I am hoping you can come up with some other alternatives. Is there someone else that may be able to help?
thanks.

[rad]

Hi there,

That layout is only available for blog posts and archive pages, and only available on Ethos stack. The only available feature is the recent posts format which is yes, still different from the layout you wish to see. And if you wish to enhance the recent posts element to create that layout, then yes, you’ll have to hire a web developer.

And yes, there is no shortcode that could do that since it’s specific to a stack, and it’s just not template parts. The clue that we can only give you is enhance the recent posts shortcode, and make it layout similar to that, and display its excerpt instead of just box.

Thanks!

[atblue]

Hi there, thanks for this link, it’s informative on the recent post shortcode … I am wondering, however, if there is a way to include the excerpt copy? I’m basically building out category Pages (as a page), with some introductory copy and then would like to list different “articles” (which are posts) that inform, educate and ultimately sell to my audience.

Thus I’m using this shortcode in the page to display the posts but would like to add more context than just the title of the post and date, etc.

Possible?

[nico]

Hi @atblue,

Thanks for writing in.

I believe that you would need to open another thread if you want to reply to this thread to prevent long confusing of threads.

In regards to your concern, I believe you don’t need a shortcode however you need to create a template for your category pages/posts. You might want to check more details in the link below on how to create archive templates.

Archive template

Hope it helps.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks.