Monstroid Theme Documentation

Creating blog posts

Quick Edit

Navigate to Posts in your WordPress admin.
When hovering on each title of each post, it will show the following actions: Edit, Quick Edit, Trash, View.

Follow the Steps Listed Below To Create A Blog Post:

1. Navigate to Posts in your WordPress admin.
2. Click the Add New button to create a new post. Create a title and insert your post content in the editing field.
3. Choose the post format on the right side. Default is Standard.
4. Add Categories from the right side. To assign it to the post, check the box next to the Category name.
5. Add Tags from the right side. Type the name of the tag in the field, separate multiple tags with commas.
6. To add the Featured image, click Featured Image Box, select an image and click “Set Featured Image”.
7. Once you are finished, click Publish to save the post.

Blog Monstroid options

The section contains settings for WordPress blog pages (listing and single post types).

• Featured Media

  Displays Featured Image, Gallery, Audio, Video in blog post listing depending on post type.

• Featured Image Size

  Set dimensions for post featured image in pixels.

• Featured Image Alignment

  Set alignment for post featured images.

• Post content

  Select how you want to display post content in blog listing

• Content Part length

  Specify the number of words displayed in blog listing content part. Will not work if post has an excerpt.

• More button

  Enable/Disable read more button in blog listing.

• More button label

  Specify the "Read More" button label text.

Blog > Layout

• Enable custom blog layout

  Enable/disable custom blog layout.

• Filter type

  Select if you want to filter posts by tag or by category.

• Custom blog filter type

  Select blog filter type.

• Use on pages

  Please specify pages that will use custom blog layout.

• Grid columns

  Select grid layout pattern for pages with custom blog layout.

• Masonry columns number

  Specify custom masonry layout columns number.

• Masonry columns gutter

  Specify custom masonry layout columns gutter(px).

• Timeline item width

  Specify custom item width for Timeline blog layout(%).

• Enable timeline breakpoints

  Enable/disable timeline breakpoints.

• Timeline breakpoint

  Select timeline breakpoint type.

• Timeline breakpoint date format

  Specify the date format.

• Enable marker's date label

  Enable/disable marker's date label.

• Timeline marker date format

  Specify the date format.

• Grid type

  Select layout pattern for pages with custom blog layout. Wide layout will fit for window width. Boxed layout will have fixed width.

• Custom Blog sidebars

  You can choose if you want to display sidebars and how you want to display them.

• Template type

  Select template type for blog posts.

Blog > Meta

• Date

  Show/Hide post publication date.

• Author

  Show/Hide post author.

• Comments

  Show/Hide number of comments.

• Categories

  Show/Hide post categories.

• Tags

  Show/Hide post tags.

• Additional post meta

  Enable/disable additional post meta.

Blog > Post

• Featured Image

  Display featured image on the single post page.

• Size of Featured Image

  Set dimensions for single post featured images in pixels.

• Alignment of Featured Image

  Set alignment for single post featured images.

• Navigation

  Enable/disable post navigation block.

• Author Bio

  Enable/disable the author bio block. Author bio block is displayed on the post page.

• Related posts

  Enable/disable the related posts block. Related posts block is displayed on the post page.

• Allow Comments

  Enable/disable comments for blog posts.

• Gallery Slider

  Replace the default WordPress gallery shortcode with an enhanced jQuery carousel.

• Lightbox for images in a content

  Automatically adds lightbox for images in a post content.

• Additional post meta

  Enable/disable additional post meta.

Assigning the blog page

The first method we will cover is the standard WordPress method, setting up an assigned blog or “post” page. It’s as simple as making a new page, and then telling WordPress to use that page as the post page.

Follow these Steps to assign a Posts Page

1. Navigate to Pages and click Add New.
2. Input a new name for your page, then find the Page Attributes box on the right side.
3. Select the Default page template from the dropdown list.
4. Select any number of page options in the Page Options Box.
5. Click "Publish" to save the page.
6. To set the page as your posts page, navigate to Settings > Reading and select your blog page name for the Posts Page. Doing this will automatically pull your blog posts and place them on the page.