blog post set up

Hi KR

Thanks for reaching out.

If possible, please, send a link to your blog page and we’ll take a look.

Thanks for the link. I forgot about the Left Medium loop, I think that’s our loop for the search results page. The way it’s included makes it available in the Post Loop widget. Unfortunately, it would require custom development to add the category meta to the featured image in that loop, there isn’t a way it can be done from theme settings. We can directly assist with changes like this within our SiteOrigin Premium support scope but unfortunately are limited to basic usage support here on the forums due to resource limitations.

The Featured Posts slider height changes twice to assist with mobile, you can see those changes on GitHub: https://github.com/siteorigin/siteorigin-unwind/blob/a826552fe007bed7e601e297d76d03f1b82e73b8/style.css#L3395-L3407. The rule you’ve inserted at CustomizeAdditional CSS is overriding the heights set by the theme’s stylesheet. You’d need to add your own media queries to adjust the slider height further.

Can you set custom excerpts for each blog widget ?
Sorry, not quite with you here, can you expand a bit on what you mean by custom excerpts?

can i remove the older post button for the left medium post and leave for the grid post.
The easiest would be using Custom CSS. (We can directly assist with changes like this within our SiteOrigin Premium support scope but unfortunately are limited to basic usage support here on the forums due to resource limitations.)

You can find a guide here Post: A Custom CSS Guide to Page Builder Row, Cell & Widget Attributes on adding classes to widgets. You could then target a specific widget and hide the button for only that widget.

Our SiteOrigin CSS plugin has a visual editor, that might be helpful if you aren’t using your browsers developer tool to inspect elements https://siteorigin.com/css.

I’ll be back online tomorrow, chat then :) Cheers.

Here is what changing the thumbnail size or crop behavior or crop points would look like in Simple Image Sizes.

https://imgur.com/a/KcUKF4l

Once done, regenerate thumbnails.

The Alternate layout sets the width of the image container as follows:

.blog-layout-alternate .archive-entry .entry-thumbnail {
    float: left;
    margin: 0 3.5% 0 0;
    position: relative;
    width: 42.5%;
}

So making the image wider won’t change the width in the layout without CSS adjustments. You could change the height, crop behavior and crop points without needing to make CSS adjustments.