Post date and image size

Oh, good point! I’m surprised no-one has asked for the date before. Will look into this and get back to you. It would require each function for blogger, wordpress.com and www.ads-software.com to locate and cache the date for each post with the data.

Would you want this to be shown in the format designated in “Dashboard – Settings – General – Date Format”?

And would you want the time too? As an option?

With regards to the width of images … do you mean setting “min-width: 100%” on the images when “Max Width” is set to 0?

Thanks,

Oliver

Hi Oliver, thanks for your quick reply!

I think it makes sense what you suggest to adopt the format of the global setting. Personally, I don’t need the time but maybe it is useful to someone else… ??

As to the size of images I show you examples:

The display remote posts block is inside a group of a width of 400px. In editor mode everything shows fine.

When previewing the site, the images are way too big, exceeding the size of the group:

When limiting the size of the images to 400px too, those are actually too small:

Another question: would it be possible to add an option for the font size of the post’s title?

Thanks in advance!

All understood and will get this added to the next update.

We need to dedicate some development time to get these features added for you which may take a few weeks as this is one of our projects that doesn’t pay the bills.

Will let you know as soon as we have an update for you!

Hi, we’ve just pushed v1.0.8 which has the new “Show post date” block option. Please can you update and confirm this works for you.

Many thanks,

Oliver

Hi there, sorry for not having gotten back to you in such a long time. I can confirm, that showing the date works correctly. Thanks a lot for that!

I also found out, that it is possible to fix the image out of boundary problem with just a little css. So for anyone who is interested, here is my CSS I added to the containing group to make the display-remote-posts block look more how I wanted it to:

.my_rss img {width: 100%; padding-top: 0.67rem; margin: 0px;}

.my_rss h4 {font-size:1.125rem; font-weight:600; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 0rem;}

.my_rss p {margin: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; padding-top: 0.33rem;}

You can also use the “.wp-block-display-remote-posts{}” class to edit the block.

Hello again,

I’m just revisiting your image size issue and I’m not able to reproduce the problem.

Can you please let me know what theme you are using? Perhaps you could share the URL to the page where you use the Display Remove Posts block so I can inspect the CSS? How are you limiting the width of your containing Group Block to 400px?

Many thanks,

Oliver

Hi Oliver,

I’m using theme twenty-twenty-two. I can share the URL once the website goes publicly online, I hope in 1-2 weeks. I am limiting the width of the containing group by just setting it in its properties (see https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/group-block/#block-settings).

Thanks a lot!

If you like, you can now inspect the CSS at https://asia-ngo.de/news/ . The column on the right is your block ??

Thanks for this. We have replicated the issue and fixed by wrapping the featured images in a <figure> element with class wp-block-image.

Please update to v1.0.9 and let me know if that resolves your issue.

Hi Oliver, thanks for the update, but no this does not work for me. I still need to set the image width to 100%. You can check directly the css on my site by right clicking on an image and selecting Inspect (Q) and then disabling the width 100% setting, in case you don’t know the feature.

Hi, we are not seeing that on your site. What browser are you using?

We load your https://asia-ngo.de/news/ site with Safari, inspect the image and disable your .asia_rss img { width: 100%; } css and the image stays the same width.

Please advise.

Oliver

I am usually on Firefox. I just checked again and now it works! No idea why, also tried Chromium with the same result. So, sorry for the confusion and thanks for the update!

Great news! Probably a cache of some sort.

The ‘Display Remote Posts’ plugin always displays the most recent post in each block, and I want to display different posts in different columns.
Could you customise the plugin to add an additional parameter for the offset.
Anyway, I am looking for a solution to display several news next to each other in columns or blocks.

Hello,

We can certainly look into this for you but you will need to start your own support topic as this one is resolved.

Oliver