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I am VERY new to page builder and the tutorials I have seen don’t explain enough for me.
I want to set-up a blog on just one page of my website. I have used Page Builder to add a heading, a welcome, and three posts (although I would like it to be a scroll of 10 before it goes to the next page). The blog page is set up in settings for the posts. I haven’ done anything else. But I don’t think I am doing this right – can you provide a better breakdown and maybe a screenshot example of what a blog set-up in page builder should look like?
Hi William
If you want to use Page Builder to add content on your Blog page you’ll need to use the Post Loop widget. Head to Settings > Reading and un-select the post page there, that is to say, don’t select a posts page. Head back to your Blog page and then insert the Post Loop widget there.
Hi Andrew,
I can not get the Post Loop widget to show any of my posts.
My settings:
Theme: Hatch
Settings > Reading:
Front page displays latest posts (I don´t have a static landing-page yet)
The blog page has only one item, the Post Loop widget in which I can choose either the loop-error.php or loop-nav.php template, neither gives a result. For the page attributes I´ve tried all available templates, but to no avail.
Just to see what would happen, I created a new row with a Masonry layout… and that works as expected.
Could it be because the Post Loop doesn´t give the opportunity to choose a post category?
Cheers!
Hi Ron
The Post Loop widget seeks out templates as follows:
content-*.php
*-content.php
loop-*.php
*-loop.php
* could be any name. It sounds like your theme doesn’t have a template that renders blog content and falls within those naming options. You could try creating a child theme and inserting into that child theme the template that is used for the blog, index.php perhaps and rename that to loop-blog.php. Right after the opening PHP tag of the template you’ll need something like this:
The complete opening to the template could look something like this:
Yeah… figured that by now…
Tried something else with this Page Builder and you know? I stopped using it.
I know that WordPress is a pain in the ass when it comes to structuring a site and that we all try to build workarounds for that. This workaround – in my situation – only makes things worse, so…
Over the past years I´ve seen all CMS´s and the wannabee´s promising easy-peasy site building, but there is not a single one that has been able to build something that does not require at least some knowledge of PHP, CSS, JS, HTML or what the F ever…
Do you know any end-user who wants to learn several languages in order to get a decent site up and running?
I don´t :-P
Anyway, thanks for the effort :-)
For sure.
As Page Builder gains popularity we’ll hopefully see more theme support from developers. It’s definitely not our intention that end users need to code anything up.
All the best.
Hi
I’ve been trying all that you explained (thank you so much)
Well, it works but unffortunately something goes wrong because Page Template Settings menu disappears.
Now I’m trying again and again deactivating one by one my plugins.
I think CKEditor is incompatible because I couldn’t access some functionalities before deactivate it.
But the problem continues…