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Hi,
I hope to get a quick opinion on this one as digging through the forums and docs didn’t get me further.
On my site, I am using the blog setting for the front page, so on my front page, the most recent posts are shown. I am using a custom Block template to style the “loop” and a custom layout to have a sidebar appear to its right.
However, on the top of the page I want to show the most recent articles in a highlighted format, as shown in my mockup. This setup might also change based on device, so it might be fairly complex but I know it is achievable with the block editor.
My question is
1. How to I hook in this custom styled block to my blog front page?
2. How can I set an offset in the loop below, so the articles shown in the top block do not appear in the loop again. I know there is an offset setting in the “Query Loop” block, but as I am using a Content Template, I am not sure to achieve this.Thanks for some help!
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Fernando
Hi there,
1. Just create a Block Element – Page Hero for this: https://share.zight.com/bLuQxAxX
This would consist of 2 Query Loops.
2. You can add a snippet like this:
function custom_offset_posts( $query ) { // Check if it's the main query and if it's the blog page if ( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_home() ) { // Set the offset value (adjust as needed) $offset = 5; // Change this to your desired offset // Modify the query to include the offset $query->set( 'offset', $offset ); } } add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'custom_offset_posts' );
Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/#code-snippets
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Thanks Fernando for this fast reply. Technically, this works perfectly.
Regarding the CSS styling, I am having problems to customise the typography of the page hero block. E.g. the default h2 styling rules seem to overwrite the settings I do in the block editor. Is that a normal behaviour?
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Hi there,
can i see the page where the styles are being overwritten?
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Hi David, sure. I have attached the URL below.
In the top element you see on this page, I have for example set a font weight of 700 & font-size: 3rem in the block editor for the h2 class
gb-headline gb-headline-0d139cc1 gb-headline-text
But in the frontend, the global h2 style is applied.
Thanks!
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Duplicate the problem headline block and delete the original
It will re-generate the unique CSS ID for that block.This kinda of thing can happen if you copy blocks between posts, eg. from a post to an element, they end up with the same ID and the last block on the page to load will get the dibs on the CSS.
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Ah, got it. Thank you!
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you’re welcome
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