Blog Home

Setup guidance

Whilst fundamentally a repository for blog posts, the Blog Home may also be rendered as a listing page, with various controls over Layout, Filtering, Pagination etc

• Layout: options for how the list of posts will render (Grid, List, List with image) and how many posts per page. Grid layout can be further refined with card size reducing after first 4. Components can be added before or after the list. Metadata content within list items can be turned on and off. Control over the image display settings within list items

  • Blog post page options: it's possible to determine the presence and appearance of elements that will cascade through to each post (Metadata, Author, Last updated, Image Display)

• Filters: control over the presence and appearance of filtering options on the list of posts

• Styles: multiple options to set the colours of elements across both the listing page and blog posts

• Blog posts sidebar: it's possible to determine the elements that will cascade through to the sidebar of each post (unless over-ridden on the post itself)

• The other options within GO for displaying blog posts:

  • Blog Landing page type

  • Featured Blog Posts component

  • Latest News / Blog Posts component

Layout & Styling issues

• Blog Post Sidebar content - if this RTE field is populated, then the content appears in a blog post sidebar as centre aligned, regardless of whether that has been specified in the RTE

• Recent Posts - if this is included in a blog post sidebar it has inconsistent spacing compared with other sidebar elements (perhaps expecting a background colour), and legacy ACAT styling elements (bullet points)

Accessibility issues

• No errors (WAVE plugin)

Potential improvements