Blog Shortcode

Updated on December 29, 2017

Express yourself to the world, share your thoughts and your passions using the blog shortcode. Blog is the most common and most popular section on websites.

In this article, we explain about displaying blog posts via Blog shortcode and configuring the shortcode settings.

To see the Blog shortcode in action, you may check the demo page.

Blog shortcode - demo page


Creating Blog Posts

Before adding blog shortcode and displaying the posts, blog posts itself should be created. To learn about creating different kind of blog posts, read Creating a blog post article then continue to the next section.


Displaying Blog Posts

After creating blog posts, it’s time to display them in a page. For this purpose, we need to add Blog shortcode in a page.

Adding Blog Shortcode

To add the shortcode:

1Add a new page or edit an existing page.
2From Visual Composer screen, click + button.

Blog shortcode - Visual Composer screen

3In Add Element pop-up screen, search for Blog and click on it to be added to the page.

Blog shortcode - Add element

4When the shortcode is added, a new pop-up screen called Blog Settings opens. You can configure different aspects of blog from the pop-up.

Blog shortcode - Blog settings

5Click Save Changes and publish or update the page to check the result. It shows all the available blog posts.

Configuring Image Dimensions

There are 2 settings in Blog settings pop-up to configure the image dimensions.

Setting Description

Image size Choose an image size which will be shown on the blog loop.
Image height Sets a custom image height (only available when using ‘Resize & Crop’ option from above).

Blog Loop Content

There are 2 settings in Blog settings pop-up to configure the content shown in the blog loop.

Setting Description

Full content in blog loop Toggles between showing the excerpt or full content.
Post excerpt length Sets the custom lenght of excerpt shown in blog loop.

Excluding Blog Post Formats

In Blog settings pop-up, you can exclude a specific blog post format from showing on the page.

Setting Description

Blog post formats to exclude Excludes a specific blog post format from the blog loop.

Showing Specific Posts

There are 3 settings in Blog Settings pop-up which allow you to show the posts based on specific categories, IDs or authors. Type the name of category, post or author to add them in the fields.

Setting Description

Select Specific Categories Determines categories of blog posts. Posts from the selected categories will be only displayed.
Select Specific Posts Determines specific blog posts. The selected posts will be only displayed.
Select Specific Authors Determines authors of blog posts. Posts from the selected authors will be only displayed.

Configuring Pagination

In Blog settings pop-up, there are two settings for pagination.

Setting Description

Show Pagination? Enables or disables the pagination.
Pagination Style Defines the pagination style. There are 3 available styles.

Altering the Posts Sorting

There are 2 settings in Blog Settings pop-up which allow you to alter the posts sorting. By default, Order and Orderby settings are set to Ascending and Date therefore it sorts the older posts ahead of newer posts.

Setting Description

Order Sets the ascending or descending order of the Orderby parameter.
Orderby Sorts the posts based on the selected parameter (date, menu order, title, …).


Configuring the Layout

There are 7 types of layouts for the blog shortcode; modern, classic, newspaper, grid, spotlight, thumbnail and magazine.

You can check out all the blog layouts on Jupiter main demo website, by going to Blog section.


Removing Meta Section

One of the common requests in our Helpdesk is about removing the meta section from blog loop. There is no setting to disable this and we need to use custom CSS.

Blog shortcode - meta section

To remove the meta section:

1From WordPress left menu, go to Jupiter > Theme Options > Advanced > Custom CSS.
2Paste the codes below into the input field.

.mk-blog-meta-wrapper{
display: none;
}

3Save the settings and check the blog for changes.
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