Recent Posts with featured images and readmore

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#1

Hello. I am in the middle of building a website with X Theme, based on the Agency demo and the Ethos stack. I’m trying to add a section for recent posts to the homepage that will have a featured image to the left, post title, excerpt, and a readmore, like it appears on the Blog.

The Classic Recent Posts element and its available shortcodes don’t meet these (rather basic) needs.

On your forums I found code for allowing excerpts, added it to functions.php in my child theme, and got the posts working to an extent. But there are still problems:

  1. No left-hand featured image or readmore.
  2. For each post, the entire block is a link, which I don’t want.
  3. The post titles just run out of space with an ellipsis.

Rather than keep experimenting, I thought a third-party plugin might solve this. I installed Recent Posts Widget Extended, created a sidebar, added the widget to it and adjusted the settings. Then in Cornerstone I added a new section to the homepage and pasted the plugin shortcode [rpwe] into a text element. The posts do appear, but no excerpt is showing, and it’s all really tiny. I can’t work out what’s going on. Can you help?

  1. To make Recent Posts Widget Extended work as expected.
  2. If that’s not possible, then to set up featured image/readmores in the way I describe above.

Thanks.

#2

hi There,

Thanks for writing in!

We are really sorry but we don’t give support towards third-party plugin issue. To help you. find out what could be the cause of the issue we need your website details so that we can have a look and give you a possible solution!’

Please provide following information:
Set it as Secure Note

  • Link to your site
  • WordPress Admin username / password
    All the best!
#3

Thanks for getting back. I’ve added a secure note.

#4

Hi There,

Thanks for the details!

I can see you have added the shortcode to a text element, which is causing the issue.
Because the plugin is a widget plugin only works better in sidebar widgets.

I removed the text element and added a widget area element which works as expected.

If you want to change the style or add custom CSS please go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> widgets in home widgets you can change the setting or can add custom CSS.

Hope this helps!

Thanks

#5

That’s brilliant support, thank you very much @basanta.

But I have amended the Secure Note to a new one - could you please read and act on that? Thank you.

#6

HI there,

I have removed the image on the public post and moved it to a secure note for reference.

The image should now only be visible to the staff and you.

#7

Thanks very much for your understanding.

#8

You are welcome.

#9

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