Posts listed on home page

[basednow]

Hello, I would like to list the different posts on the front page. I would like a section with Recent Posts, but then also some Post categories and Featured Posts as well. Some will be in columns and then full width as well as.

I found Classic Recent Posts, but it’s not a very nice way to display the posts. Is there a module, block or something I can list the posts on a page where I can chose whether the post will be shown with short excerpt or only post title etc, large post image, small post image etc? Thanks

[basednow]

I found out how to use it with shortscodes http://demo.theme.co/ethos-1/shortcodes/recent-posts/

But when I insert the shortcode, it has a gray box around it. It’s not like that on the link I posted above that is transparent. I’m using Ethos, any idea how to remove the gray box?

I also would like to change the thin line boxes around the headers in the Sidebar. I only chose Ethos because I wanted the carusell of the posts above the menu. I would like to change the Sidebar to not look like Ethos sidebars

[paul.r]

Hi,

1. To get rid of the gray border around your recent post shortcode, you may add the code below in Theme Options > CSS

.x-sidebar.right .x-recent-posts a {
   border:0;
   padding:0;
}

2. To change the thin line around the headers, you can add this in Theme Options > CSS

.x-sidebar .h-widget {
    border: 1px solid red;
}

Change red with the color that you like.

For future reference, In case you want to learn CSS you may refer to the videos below.

Hope this helps