Customizer – Blog settings

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These options can be found in Customizer > Blog panel eg: https://d.pr/i/iETH0Y .

LinkBlog page

Sidebar

Choose the sidebar position, or even disable it. To add widgets, access Appearance > Widgets and add widgets into the Main Sidebar.

Sidebar Size

Choose the sidebar’s size.

Posts per row

Choose how many posts per row to display. Up to 4 per row (columns).

Pagination type

Choose the pagination type:

  • Simple pagination with paged numbers
  • Load More button (through Ajax)
  • Load More on scroll (infinite scrolling)

Tip: While infinite scrolling is kind of fun, it’s the worst in terms of user experience because the visitor cannot reach the footer.

Title animation

Select if you want to enable the title to animate while hovering the post.

Meta – Date

Select if you want to display the post date.

Meta – Human Date

Select if you want to display the post date but in human readable format, eg: 2 days ago.

Meta – Comments

Select if you want to display the comments count and icon under the title.

Meta – Categories

Select if you want to display the post categories in the post.

Meta – Author

Select if you want to display the post author.

Meta – Read duration

Select if you want to display a text representing the post read duration in minutes eg: “3 min. read”.

Thumbnail (Media)

Select if you want to display the post’s image.

Thumbnail animation

Select if you enable the post’s image to animate while hovering the post.

Content type

Select the content type of the post. Either excerpt (most common), full content or disabled.

Excerpt length

If content type is set on excerpt, choose how long should it be.

Typography – Blog Post title

Customize the blog post’s title typography and color.

Typography – Blog Post content

Customize the blog post’s content typography and color.


LinkBlog post

Post width

Select if you want to display the post content stretched wide, or compact centered.

Meta – Date

Select if you want to display the post date under the title.

Meta – Comments

Select if you want to display the comment count and icon under the title.

Meta – Categories

Select if you want to display the post’ categories.

Meta – Author

Select if you want to display the post author, under the main title.

Meta – Author box

Select if you want to display the author description box, after the post content.

Meta – Sharing links

Select if you want to display the share links. Read how to add more sharing links in blog posts.

Meta – Tags

Select if you want to display the post tags (if any).

Meta – Navigation

Select if you want to display a navigation to previous and next post.

Meta – Featured image

Select if you want to display the post featured image.

Meta – Category text in background

Select if you want to display the large category text behind the post.

Typography – Post title

Customize the post’ title typography.

Typography – Post content

Customize the post’ content typography.

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2 Replies to “Customizer – Blog settings”

  1. Rachan

    Meta – Category text in background
    Select if you want to display the large category text behind the post.

    I have a strange problem…I think with one of my web hosting servers, this doesn’t work. Are there any specific PHP settings required for this to work?

  2. Rachan

    Could you add an easy way to change the sidebar breakpoint for the blog posts?

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