Blog

Posts & Layout

Query

In this section you can choose posts to be displayed in blog loop.

Show

Here you can specify posts of which post type should be displayed in blog loop. TheGem Blog element is compatible with all custom post types, which automatically appear in this control once added to your WordPress instance.

By selecting “Same Taxonomy Items (Related) you can display posts which are related to the current post. In this case next you need to select the “Related by” taxonomy (in case you have created your own custom taxonomy it will automatically appear in “Related by” control.

By selecting “Manual Selection” you can manually select posts from different post types to display in loop. To manually select posts simply start typing the names of the respective posts in “Select Posts” control.

Source

You can show posts from selected taxonomy terms like blog or product categories, tags etc.And/or you can manually select posts of the chosen post type by choosing “Posts”/”Manual Selection” in “Source” field. To manually select posts simply start typing the names of the respective posts in “Select Postss” control.

Order By, Sort Order

Specify the sort order of the items in blog loop.

Offset

Here you can displace or pass over the first items in blog loop by specifying the number of such items to pass over.

Exclude

Using exclude control you can exclude posts from being displayed in blog loop. You can manually specify the posts to exclude OR you can exclude the current post (where you are inserting the grid) OR you can exclude posts by taxonomy term – in this case simply start typing for example the name of the blog category, which posts should be excluded from being shown.

Layout