Question about blog page - basic layout and categories

[rjcloudsigma]

Hello,

Our site is www.cloudsigma.com, on the X theme, Integrity.
My questions are related to the Blog page.

1. Is there a way to have the main blog page show the categories on top, similar to how it is in the Portfolio page? In the same way it is shown on the Integrity example layout?

![(https://pasteboard.co/JODqLkc.png]! screenshot

What we want to achieve is to have readers be able to filter through posts by category easily. If this is not possible, can you suggest any other way we can do it? For example, would it be possible with the Essential Grid plugin? (I would appreciate any suggestion other than custom code, because I don’t have the skills). Or perhaps any shortcode?

2. On some of our pages, we use the shortcode:
   [recent_posts count=“3” category=“Customer Success Story” offset=“3”] to show some of the recent posts of a certain category. Is there a way to modify this shortcode, so that it will show all posts ever published in this category?

3. Is it possible to edit the main blog layout through Cornerstone?

These are my 3 questions.
Alternatively, can you link other threads in which similar problems have been solved? I searched, but I couldn’t find any.

Thank you in advance for your time and answers!

[prakash_s]

Hello @rjcloudsigma,

Thanks for writing to us.

Regretfully, there is no default option in the theme or builder. I would suggest you use our bundled plugin called Essential Grid plugin. In case if you haven’t seen the doc of Essential Grid plugin please have a look at our doc. You can check the doc of Essentials grid filter https://www.themepunch.com/essgrid-doc/category-filters/.

For the shortcode, you can use the category attribute in the shortcode and you need to use the category slug to filter the posts and set the count as “-1” it would display all the posts of that category. Please have a look at this article to learn more about recent posts shortcode options.
https://demo.theme.co/integrity-1/shortcodes/recent-posts/

For your third query.
Regretfully, you can not edit the blog layout from Cornerstone in X theme. You may upgrade your X theme to Pro where you will get Layout builder and Header/Footer, builder

Thanks