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The Featured Categories Block is suitable if you are looking to display the post with respect to the chosen category.

Adding Featured Categories Block
Adding Featured Categories Block

After you have chosen the Featured Categories Block, you’ll get a block editing panel on the right-hand side. It has three options: General, Style, and Advanced. These options customize the design and other elements of the block. Let’s explore one by one below:

General #

It comes with the following options listed below:

General #

  • Content Alignment – It sets the position of the content to be on the Left, Center, and Right positions. Moreover, you can set the position of the content to be different on various devices (Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile).

Query #

It consists of the settings related to the posts that are displayed on the front end. It allows you to choose posts depending on Category, Tag, Date, Title, etc. Since the block has two layouts, you can set a different category for each layout.

Also, you can sort the posts in Ascending or Descending order. Likewise, you can choose the number of posts to be displayed.

Moreover, you can also exclude the specific category to be displayed.

Heading #

The Heading area refers to the Title that gets displayed at the top of the posts and comes with the following option to customize it:

  1. Enable – Switch the Toggle to the right area to enable the heading on your site. Enabling the option will display the Heading on your end.
  2. Preset – The Preset refers to the styles for displaying the heading area. Currenlty, it has two layout styles with various styles on each layout for displaying the heading.

Post Box #

The Post Box refers to the area of each individual post that gets displayed. It comes with the following options listed below:

It sets the post box style to be either Boxed or Border. With each style, there come different customization options.

Post Title #

The options work for the post title of the featured categories block and provide the following options:

  • HTML Markup – It changes the heading tag for the post title. Under the HTML Markup option, select the required markup for your post title. You can set your post title to be in H1 – H5.

Image #

The option is for customizing the images of the post that appear while using the Featured Categories block. It comes with the following customization options:

  • Hover Animation – It adds the animation effect while the featured image is being hovered on your end.

Header Meta #

It refers to the metadata appearing in the header area of each post. Currenlty, the post category and comments are displayed as the header meta and come with the following option:

  • Category – Switch the Toggle to the right area to enable the category icon. Enabling the option will display the Category Icon on the header area.
  • Comments – Switch the Toggle to the right area to enable the comment icon. Enabling the option will display the Comment Icon on the header area.

Meta #

Meta refers to the metadata displayed over the post, such as Author, Date, etc. With the featured post block, you’ll get the Author and Date meta below the post title, which comes with the following customization options:

  • Enable – Switch the Toggle to the right area to meta. Enabling the option will display the meta elements, i.e., author and date, on the header area.
  • Position – It allows changing the position of Meta. You can display the Meta above or below the post title.

Excerpt #

An Excerpt is a summary or brief description of a post that provides readers with a quick overview of the content, allowing them to decide whether they want to read more. The Excerpt displays below the meta with the following options;

  • Enable – Switch the Toggle to the right area to enable the Excerpt. Enabling the option will display the Excerpt text on your end.
  • Limit – By default, the featured post blocks limit excerpts’ length upto 20 words. You can increase or decrease the excerpt length on your preference.

Read More #

The Featured Post Block allows displaying the Read More tag on the post. Clicking the read more button will display the full contents of your post. It comes with the following options:

  • Enable – Switch the Toggle to the right area to enable the Read More. Enabling the option will display the Read More tag below the excerpt text.
  • Text – It allows you to change the Read More Label. By default, the label is read more, which can be changed.

Style #

Under the style option, you’ll find the following options available:

Post Box #

  • Background – It sets the background color for the post box. You can change the visual appearance of the background by changing its color or adding an image. Moreover, you can set the different background colors on Normal and Hover Modes.
  • Box Shadow – It adds a shadow effect around the box. When you enable the Box Shadow option, you will get the following customization options:
    • Color – It allows you to select the appropriate box-shadow color for the section block.
    • Horizontal-X – It displays the box shadows in the horizontal position.
    • Vertical-Y – It displays the box shadows in the vertical position.
    • Blur – You can set up the blur value of the box shadows appearing.
    • Spread – The shadow’s spread value represents the distance to expand or contract a shadow in all directions. You can change the spread value according to the site’s requirements.
    • Position – You can set the position of the box shadows as Inset or Outline.

Image #

Under the setting, you can change the width and height of the image appearing on the Featured Post Block. Depending on the responsive device (Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile), you can set the width and height.

Heading  #

  • Heading Color – It allows you to change the color of the heading Text in Normal and Hover modes.
  • Border Color – It allows you to change the color of the heading Border in Normal and Hover modes.

Highlighted Post #

The Highlighted post in the Featured Categories Block refers to the first post with bigger featured images and other content. It comes with the following styling options:

  • Typography – It allows you to control the highlighted post-title typography, such as font family, weight, font size, line height, and other related styling properties. The options are listed below:
    • Font Family – The option allows you to choose the appropriate Font Family for the heading block
    • Weight – It refers to the thickness or boldness of the heading text.
    • Size – It controls the Font Size of the heading text.
    • Line Height – It manages the space above and below the heading text.
    • Letter Spacing –  It controls the amount of space between characters in the heading text.
    • Style – Using the property, you can set the heading text to be Italic or Oblique.
    • Transformation – It changes the case of the text such as Lowercase, Uppercase, and Capitalize.
    • Decoration – The styling is applied to the heading block to make it more visually appealing. The options include underline, overline, and line through.

Post Title  #

  • Typography – It controls the Post title Font Family, Weight, and Font Size.
  • Text Color – It allows you to change the color of the post title on Normal and Hover Mode.

Header Meta #

  • Text Color – It allows you to change the color of the Meta Text in Normal and Hover modes.
  • Background – It sets the background color for the Header Meta. You can change the visual appearance of the background by changing its color or adding an image. Moreover, you can set the different background colors on Normal and Hover Modes.
  • Padding – It adjusts the space of header meta elements.
  • Border– It customizes the Border area added around the Header Meta and comes with the following options:
    • Type – You can set the border type as Solid, Dotted, Dashed, Double, etc. Moreover, select the border type to be None if you do not want to add any borders for the section block.

When you select none, you will be given the following option:

  • Radius – It allows you to fix the radius value to make the round corners for the column border.
  • Box Shadow – When you enable the Box Shadow option, you will get the following customization options:
    • Color – It allows you to select the appropriate box-shadow color for the section block.
    • Horizontal-X – It displays the box shadows in the horizontal position.
    • Horizontal-Y – It displays the box shadows in the vertical position.
    • Blur – You can set up the blur value of the box shadows appearing.
    • Spread – The shadow’s spread value represents the distance to expand or contract a shadow in all directions. You can change the spread value according to the site’s requirements.
    • Position – You can set the position of the box shadows as Inset or Outline.

However, if you select the border type to be other than none, two more options will be added. The option is listed below:

  • Border Color – It allows you to choose the appropriate border color for the section block.
  • Size – It provides the option to select the border size.

Note – You can apply the border settings option differently for Normal and Hover Modes.

Meta #

  • Icon Color – It allows changing the icon’s color representing the metadata.
  • Link Color – It allows changing the color of the link representing the metadata. You can change the link color in Normal and Hover modes.

Excerpt #

  • Text Color – It allows you to set the Excerpt Text color.
  • Margin – It manages the margin value of the excerpt text.

Read More #

  • Text Color– It allows you to change the color of the Read More label on Normal and Hover Mode.
  • Background – It allows you to add the background for the Read More Tag. You can add an image or use the color to set the background.
  • Spacing – It manages the spaces in between the content appearing above the Read More tag.
  • Padding – It sets the padding value for the Read More Tag.
  • Border – It customizes the Border area added around the Read More Tag.

Advanced #

The Advanced section consists of four options for the Featured Categories block.

Spacing #

Under the spacing section, you can find the following options available:

  • Block Margin – According to the site requirement, you can assign a specific margin value to the block along with units like px, em, %, and rem. Moreover, you can set the value of the different margins for various devices (Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile),
  • Block Padding – According to the site requirement, you can assign a specific padding value to the block along with units like px, em, %, and rem. Moreover, you can set the value of the different margins for various devices (Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile).

Z-Index #

It allows you to set the priority of the Featured Categories according to the site requirement.

Responsive Condition #

Using the option, you can enable/disable displaying the block on various screen sizes:

Hide on Desktop – It hides the Featured Post block on the Desktop.

Hide on Tablet – It hides the Featured Post block on Tablet.

Hide on Mobile – It hides the Featured Post block on Mobile.

Advanced #

Under the option, you can set the CSS ID and Classes for this particular featured post-block. The available options are listed below:

  • Block HTML – It sets the HTML elements to your site requirements. By default, the HTML element is div; however, you can use another element such as Address, Article, Aside, etc.
  • CSS ID – It allows you to set specific IDs to style this particular block. Once you have set the ID, you can write the CSS Code to style the block using that particular ID.
  • Additional CSS Class(es) – It allows you to add a CSS Class(es) to your block, letting you write custom CSS to style this particular block. On a page, there might be two Featured Posts blocks, and you want to make some changes on one Featured Categories block but leave another Featured Posts block untouched. In this case, you can define the CSS classes for the one Featured Categories block on which you want to make some changes. 

Moreover, you can add more than one class separately by commas.

For example, if you want to change the width of the Featured Posts block only, you can add the class featured-categories-width under the Additional CSS Class field. After that, visit your CSS editor and write a style for the class as below:

.featured-categories-width{
width:70%
}

Upon adding the code, it will make the changes only to this particular Featured Categories block and not other Featured Posts blocks.

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