Blog Listing Pages

There are 3 ways to define blog listing pages in Porto. The following article covers all 3 options:

  1. Latest Posts Type Pages
  2. Standard List View Page
  3. WordPress Blog Listing

Latest Posts Type Page

If you want a more sophisticated Blog page, then it is necessary to have a page that uses ‘Latest posts types‘ page template.

Step 1 – Latest Posts Type

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Step 2 – Select Options

Once this template is selected, there will be option that allow selecting the post type (you need to select ‘Post‘ if you want to display the latest blog posts), filter the result by categories, select the view type and how many posts are shown on the page:

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Review and test the options to get the desired view.

Regular List View

If you wish to use a standard list view for your blog follow the steps below:

Step 1 – Blog List View

Create a new page, and use the ‘Blog List View‘ page template.

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This template creates a classic Blog page that displays the post one after another showing content of each post.

The only option available here is the number of posts per page:

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Save the page and review.

WordPress Default Blog

Step 1 – Settings > Reading

To use WordPress’s blog listing page, define a page as the Blog page under Settings -> Reading

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You can also set the number of posts to show per page.

Step 2 – Choose Layout

If this option is used then the layout of the blog page can be set from the Content Settings:

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