Block: Specific posts/pages

The Specific posts/pages block lets you build a list of posts (from any post type, including pages). It offers many of the options of the Unique posts block and displays in a similar style — but instead of filtering by categories and tags, it lets you choose specific posts/pages. Click the plus icon to add … Read more

Block: Unique posts

The Unique Posts block gives you a way to list posts on a page. You can get all the posts in a certain category, with a certain tag, etc. — and you can decide what to show for each one (title, image, author, date, etc.). The distinguishing feature of the Unique Posts block is that, … Read more

Announcements

For underwriting, an individual “announcement” is a single message that is scheduled and placed on the site individually (a little like an ad, although the underwriting system should not be used for ads since it lacks analytics and is not transparent to browsers that treat ads differently). To display an announcement on the site, you … Read more

Announcement Placements

Placements are like a channel or bucket – you assign individual underwriting announcements to a placement and insert that placement at different spots in the web site. Any underwriting announcements you assign to a certain placement show up anywhere that placement is inserted. You can find placements under the “Web Underwriting” menu on the left … Read more

New video episode

Under “Videos” in the left-hand menu, click “Add New” Fill in a title and description as usual Note: the title should NOT contain the series name, just the episode name/label (the series name is now automatically included, which gives us a lot more control of how it’s displayed) Under the “Video” box: Enter the information … Read more

Turn off page title

Hide the title of a page (it will still show up in the browser title bar and elsewhere – this doesn’t make it private, just keeps it from being the first thing on the page). While editing a page using the block editor, click the Genesis Icon in the upper right Check the “Hide Title” … Read more

The new block editor

At some point we will start using the new block editor to edit WordPress posts and pages. (It’s also sometimes called the “Gutenberg” editor). You’ll be able to keep using the old editor indefinitely (although some day it may go away), but advanced page layouts will be with the new editor (and you can use … Read more

To switch to the block editor

On the lower right of a page or post, click the “Switch to Block Editor” link If that option isn’t there, click “Screen Options” in the upper right and make sure the “Editor” option is checked Then look for the “Switch to Block Editor” option again

Hide ads on a category archive page

By default, ads show up on category archive pages, but you can hide them. Navigate to the category page and click “Edit Category” in the top bar Near the bottom of the category editing screen, find the “Show ads” switch By default it is set to “show” (ads will be visible), but you can click … Read more