Block: Articles

Pull out dynamically your posts to promote organic navigation!

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Definition & Purpose

Definition

Use the Posts Lists block to insert a list or grid of the latest articles, press releases, and/or publications, organized by publication date. This block automatically pulls and sorts these posts according to their type, tags, and categories.

Purpose

Highlights Posts so that users can easily see and navigate to the latest and most relevant articles, press releases and/or publications.

Add the block to your page

The block is automatically added at the end of Posts and can be manually added in Pages by selecting in the Planet 4 blocks menu

Customize the block

The following fields can be edited for the articles block:

The title, the description and the button text to load more results can be edited right inside the block. The rest of the options have been moved to the menu on the right side.

title: there is a default setting (for the EN sites, this is set to Latest articles). You can change and rename this field differently in place, inside the block
description: add a description for the latest articles block
button text: if you choose this block to link to a different page or post, you can add a button, therefore you need to edit this field. There is a default setting for this as well – Load more
button link: here you should add the URL of the post/ page
open in a new tab: tick this if you want the post/ page to open in a new page. If you want the user not to navigate on a different tab, then leave this field un-ticked

articles count: how many articles you want to be displayed in this block
select tags: by adding specific tags, the corresponding content will be pulled
post types: here you determine what type of post you want to be pulled in this specific block: either story, press release, publication or any other type of post there is available on the site
- ignore categories: by default, the block will only display posts from the same category the post/page is assigned to. This option is about ignoring that rule and showing everything
the block also has a Preview section where you can check, considering the options you choose, what content will be pulled

The preview is static: tags and links are not clickable in the preview window in the backend so that it is clear which elements are editable or not.

Manual override of posts

If you want specific pieces of content to be pulled out, you can customize the order with specific posts. In this case the posts will be displayed in order of publication date, most recent displayed on the top.

🤔 Key Info : The “manual override” command is available only if both “tags” and “post types” fields are empty

Once this field is being used, the tags and post types fields are unavailable.