Archives Specific Elements
As said above, you can add any content elements available in page builder to your archives template. However, the mostly used elements are archives specific elements like posts extended grid, blog list, archive title etc. which content is populated dynamically from the archives data. Here we will describe briefly archives specific elements.
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Posts Extended Grid
This element helps you to add grid / list with posts to your archives template.
After adding this element, by default, the “Posts Archive” will be selected as posts source. This means that posts from the corresponding archive will be dynamically used and displayed.
You can also change the posts source from “Posts Archive” to manual selection by selecting the corresponding post type to show in the “Show” field and making the additional selections in “Source” field. In this case you can select any posts (by category, by tags, by posts selection etc.) to be displayed in your blog archive template. This is useful for adding additional blog sections like “You may also like”, “Recent Posts”, “Popular Posts” etc. to your blog archive template.
All settings of “Posts Extended Grid” element are explained in following chapters:
Blog (WPBakery) / Blog List (Elementor)
Adds blog lists in different styles to your blog archives template.All settings are explained in following chapter:
Blog Slider
Adds blog slider to your blog archives template.
All settings are explained in following chapter:
Featured Posts Slider
With this element you can add a slider of “featured” blog posts to your page. This is useful for blog and magazine websites, where you can highlight some hot or newest posts on your page, for example in header / hero area.
There are two types of posts source for Featured Posts Slider you can choose from:
а. Featured via post’s page options
You can set a blog post as “featured” post in page settings of this blog post.
NOTE: if no posts in some blog category are marked as “featured” in their page options, featured posts slider will not be displayed in this blog category.
b. All posts from blog archive
This setting displays all posts of blog archive no matter if this posts have been marked as “featured” in page options or not. You can fine tune your selection by setting the appropriate “Sort Order”, “Offset”, excluding some posts and limit the number of posts to be displayed in a slider.
All other settings are explained in details in following chapter: Featured Posts Slider
Archive Title
Shows the title of the corresponding blog archive.
Archive Description
Archive description shows the description/excerpt of the corresponding blog archive. You can set the archive description in the page options of this archive under “Description”
Archive Breadcrumbs
Adds blog archive breadcrumbs to blog archive template.