Blocks Issues

  • I have several issues that I can’t seem to find documentation on how to handle them.

    1) On the Latest Posts Block. I’ve settled on not overlaying the post title onto the featured image as I cannot seem to find a way to do that. What I’m now trying to figure out is how to prevent the title from rolling to the next line. It’s changing the height of the row so that it’s not the same height as the post next to it in the row.

    2) I’m using a Query Loop block for the main portion of the page, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to add a next post/previous post reference to it. I’ve tried adding the Next Post Block and Previous Post Block, but neither are showing up on the live version.

    3) I want to change the height of the Search Block, but I can’t find a way to limit that height, so it feels rather bulky.

    4) With screen resizing (not for mobile/tablets, but for different monitor widths), I want to keep the five segments at the top (the large block on the left and the four smaller blocks on the right) proportional to one another so that they always fill the space to make it looks the same regardless of width. Right now, when I have the browser at full size, it looks perfect, but if I decrease the browser so it’s only half my screen size, then the five blocks look uneven and imbalanced. I hope this makes sense as I’m not sure how to explain it otherwise.

    Test site is: awardslandscape.com.

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  • Hi there, this might not answer all of your questions, but hopefully could help with a couple of them:

    1. I don’t believe there’s currently a way to prevent long titles from wrapping. In this case, would you ideally like to have the title be truncated (e.g. shortened, and then followed by ...) if the title doesn’t fit on a single row? That could be a good enhancement idea, possibly for Typography controls.

    2. Within the Query Loop block, to add pagination, try using the Pagination block, this should then render the next / prev and pagination buttons if there are enough posts in the current query to trigger them to display.

    3. The Search block currently doesn’t have height or padding controls. However, it’s possible to slightly adjust the height by changing either the line height or font-size typography controls.

    4. From a quick look at the site, it appears that the slider on the left-hand side is from a plugin, so I’m not too sure how flexible it might be in terms of sizing. However, something to try out could be to have a play with the Row Block as a container instead of Columns, to see if that gives any more flexibility to the layout. Blocks that are direct children of a Row block have some further dimensions controls available for adjusting width.

    Thread Starter OscarGuy

    (@oscarguy)

    Thanks for the reply.

    1. I think truncating could work. It would certainly be preferable to what it’s doing.

    2. Pagination is indeed what I needed.

    3. Seems like the search block having more adjustable dimensions might be a good improvement to it. I wonder if there are any search bar plugins that might serve as a good replacement.

    4. Can you convert a column to a row? Or can I add a row block around the current column block? Not sure how friendly the blocks are to adding higher level nesting instead of going deeper with each block.

    As to the slider plugin, I think I have it set for variable size, but I don’t think the latest post blocks are as flexible. Part of that may be the variable nature of the title line, so fixing that might also fix the issue, I don’t know for sure.

    Thread Starter OscarGuy

    (@oscarguy)

    Took the columns and moved them into a row block and unfortunately, that didn’t fix that issue.

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