Displaying Recent Posts in Phlox Tiles Style

Phlox lets you add Recent Posts page to your website, just like all other WordPress themes. It is easily possible by adding a widget. The advantage is that you can give a style to the recent posts by editing the widget options in Widget Areas or in Page Builder. Phlox?Recent Posts?Widgets?let you show your most recent posts on a widget bar of your website, or any page or post you want.

Tiles Recent Posts Widget?is one of the Page Builder elements for collecting recent posts in a page/post. This element gives a tiled grid style to your recent posts. Tiles can appear in two different styles and each tile can include the post title and post meta (date, and category/categories).

The tiled layout is best for creating image gallery out of your recent posts and is the best choice for photo blogs.

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Video Tutorial

Tiles Recent Posts Options?in Elementor Page Builder

Go to your WordPress Admin Panel
Click the Pages?on the Dashboard
Click the Add New
Navigate to the top left hand of the WordPress text-box and find?Edit with Elementor?button.
Check out?Elements
Scroll down to?PHLOX – POSTS?section
Choose?Tiles Posts?or?Tiles Carousel Posts

After adding tiles recent posts to your post or page, you are able to customize it by available options:

Layout

Layout

There are 8 different?Post Tile styles.

Also, you can set?Standard?or?Dark?layout for the items of tiles.

Display

You are able to enable these features to display on your recent posts:

Display post title
Display post info

Tiles Carousel Posts

If you select?Tiles Carousel Posts?from the available elements, you can see all of the above options, besides you can customize?Carousel?settings.

Navigation control?can be?Bullets or?Arrows.

You can choose?Navigation type?to?Move per column, per page,?or Scroll smoothly. You can enable?Loop navigation,?Autoplay carousel, and set an?Autoplay?delay time in seconds.

Content

Query

You are able to choose one or more than one Category for your recent posts, or even show the posts of all available categories. Also, you can select a specific category.

Number of posts to show is editable. Also, you are able to?Exclude posts without media?and?custom post formats. If you exclude custom post formats, you are able to?Exclude quote and link post formats.

You can Order posts by:

Date: Order the posts by their publication date
Menu Order:?Order by page order
Title:?Order by post title
ID:?Order by post ID
Random: Your posts appear randomly
Comments:?Order the posts by number of comments
Date Modified:?Order by last modified date
Author:?Order by the posts’ author
Inserted post IDs:?In the order you write post IDs on?Include posts section

Post?Order?can be Descending or Ascending.

In Include/Exclude posts field, you can enter the the specific posts IDs that you want/do not want to show.

In Start offset field, you are able to set a number to choose?the number of posts you want to?skip, and start the output with the next posts.

Paginate

There are three types for?Load more:

Infinite Scroll
Next Button
Next/Prev?Button

You can choose none if you do not want any of the mentioned load more types.

Style

Image

You can change image aspect ratio to: ?Horizontal 4:3, Horizontal 16:9, Square 1:1, and Vertical 3:4

Title

You can change the Color,?Typography,?and Bottom space?of the title on Normal or Hover.

Post Info

Many options are available here that let you change Typography, Color, Bottom space, and?Space between metas?on?Normal?and?Hover.

Excerpt

Customize Color, Typography, and?Bottom space?of posts excerpt.

Tiles Recent Posts Options?in SiteOrigin Page Builder

Follow below steps to activate the Tiles Recent Posts Widget?with SiteOrigin Page Builder:

Go to your WordPress Admin Panel
Click the Pages?on the Dashboard
Click the Add New
Navigate to the top right hand of the WordPress editor and find Page Builder, beside text tab
Click?the?Add Widget
Click the?Phlox?and choose?[Phlox] Tiles Recent Posts
Click the?Edit?on the right side of the widget on?Page Builder

Title

Choosing a title for the recent posts is optional.

Number of Posts to Show

You can?the number of posts you want to be shown in recent posts.

Exclude and Include Posts

You are able to exclude the posts you do not want to show in the recent posts. These posts are listed below:

Posts without Media
Custom Post Formats
Quote and Link Post Formats

Additionally, in Exclude Posts field, you can enter the ID of the specific posts you do not want to show, and in Include Posts field, you can choose which posts to show by entering their ID.

Order by and Order

Date: Order the posts by their publication date
Menu Order:?Order by page order
Title:?Order by post title
ID:?Order by post ID
Random: Your posts appear randomly
Comments:?Order the posts by number of comments
Date Modified:?Order by last modified date
Author:?Order by the posts’ author

The posts can be either descending or ascending.

Start Offset

This option?indicates the start point. You can write the number of posts you want to skip.

Post Tile Style

There is two available styles for tiles. Standard and Dark. By choosing the second style, the tile become darker when the mouse hovers over it. Also, the title and the post meta will appear at the center of the tile.