To display your blog posts, you need to create a blog page first
- Go to Pages > Add New
- Enter the title for the page such as ‘Blog’ then click on Publish button
- Follow the static page setting in this section.
Customize Blog Page
To change the layout of the blog page, head to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Blog Post then choose one of 7 layout options.
Featured Area
On the blog page you can display a featured area which highlights some of your blog posts. There are 3 different layouts of featured area to choose.
- Make sure your posts have featured images. This is the image that the featured area will pull in represent your post. Also do not forget to assign the category as the posts to display are based on the category selected.
- Next, navigate to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Featured Area, then enable the featured area and set it up such as selecting the layout and number of post to display. Click on Save & Publish button after.
NOTE: To get the slug category, head to Posts > Categories, quick edit the category you want to input, then copy the slug.
Archive Page
Category Pages (which display all blog posts related to a particular category), Tag Pages (which display all blog posts related to a particular tag), Author Pages (which display all blog posts related to a particular author) are called Archive Page.
To change the page layout of your archive page, head to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archive Layout and choose one from 7 layout options. You can also choose the layout to show the page title.
Blog Pagination
Upscale has 2 styles of pagination for the blog section; number pagination and prev-next pagination. You can set different styles of pagination on your blogpost page and archive page.
- To set pagination on your blogpost page, navigate to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Blog Post.
- To set pagination on your archive page, navigate to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archive Layout.
Blog Sidebar
You can enable or disable sidebar that will be displayed on the left or side area of your blog post page, blog page, and archive page.
- To enable or disable sidebar on the blog post page, go to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Single Post and change the sidebar layout. For the sidebar layout, you can also choose it when creating a new post within Dahz Setting.
- To enable or disable sidebar on the blog page, go to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Blog Post and change the sidebar layout.
- To enable or disable sidebar on the archive pages, go to Appearance > Customize > Blog > Archive Layout and change the sidebar layout.
Be sure to click save & publish button after.
