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Setting up the Blog page

By: 23rd April 2025

Video

If you open the video on YouTube, you can find the chapters of the different settings in the description.

All of these options are available with the free Minimalio theme.

Create a blog page

First thing first, you need to have published posts, without them, there will be nothing on your blog page.

There are two options, either in Theme Settings -> Homepage settings, you can choose to have your home url to show your posts, or you can choose a specific page, under the “A static page” option. The other option is to create a page and set its template to “Blog template”. The difference is, that when you create a page with the blog template, you can also add some content above your posts.

Blog settings

You can find all the settings in the Theme Settings -> Minimalio Options -> Blog Options.

Sidebar Positioning

Choose, if you want a sidebar on your blog page. To adjust what is in the sidebars, you have to go to Appearance -> Widgets -> Blog Sidebar.

Category filtering

Decide, if you want to use the category filtering. The categories are set up at the single post editing.

Load more posts option

If you have a lot of posts, you do not want to load them all at once. It will slow down your website. Instead, you want to choose either the Pagination, Load More Button or even better, Load More on Scroll, which will automatically load more posts, when your users scroll.

Archive columns

Choose how many columns are there.

Display type – Grid/Masonry

You can either use Grid with a specific aspect-ratio of the images, or you can choose the Masonry layout.

Post card style

Choose, how are the single posts on your blog page going to look like. You can choose from 5 different styles or you can choose the “All elements” and adjust it with some custom CSS.

Blog gap style

Adjust the gap between the post cards.

Read more label

Some of the post card styles have a “Read more” button, so you can change the label if you want to.

Hover color

Change the color when you hover over the post cards thumbnails.

Single post options

You can also adjust how does the single posts look like:

Sidebar – Choose, if you want a sidebar on the single post.

Thumbnail – The single post could start with a thumbnail.

Title – Choose if you want a title, it’s size and alignment.

Meta, Share, Author – Choose, you want these on your single post.

Latest posts – At the end, you can also list latests posts.

Navigation – Select, if you want links to the other posts at the end of single post.

Transcription of the video

Hi there! Today I’d like to talk to you about how to make a blog page—meaning a page with an archive of all your blog posts.

It’s really easy, but first of all, you obviously need to have some posts. So here in the “Posts” section, you need to have published posts. Each post should have a title, some content, and ideally a thumbnail image. If you want, you can also use categories for filtering.

Now, how do you make the actual blog page?

First, you can go to the “Theme Options” or “Customizer.” In the “Homepage” settings, you can either set the blog to appear on your homepage, or you can assign it to a separate page you’ve already created—like one named “Home” and another named “Blog.”

There’s another option too. You can create a new page, call it “Blog” or whatever you like. Then, in the page settings panel, you’ll see a “Template” dropdown. Choose the “Blog” template. The difference here is that if you use this method, you can add content to the page, and it will appear above the blog posts. So you could add an introduction or any text you want.

If we look at the page now, you’ll see I added a heading, and it shows up just like that.

As for the blog page settings, it’s pretty straightforward. Just go to the theme settings, under “Minimalio Options” > “Blog Options,” and you’ll find all the settings there. I hope most of them are easy to understand.

Let’s go through them one by one:

  • Sidebar Positioning: This controls the sidebar layout for the blog page (not single posts). You can choose right sidebar, left sidebar, or both.
  • Single Blog Filter by Categories: This lets you enable or disable filtering posts by category.
  • Filter Labels: Useful if your site isn’t in English or you want to customize the wording.
  • Load More Options: This is a cool feature for pages with lots of posts. Instead of classic WordPress pagination, you can use “load more on scroll.” You can also set how many posts to show initially, and the rest will load automatically as the user scrolls.
  • Blog Archive Columns: Lets you set the number of columns in your blog layout.
  • Blog Display Type: You can choose between a grid layout (like square thumbnails with a 1:1 aspect ratio) or a masonry layout that arranges posts based on their thumbnail sizes.
  • Blog Card Style: These are the different visual styles for your post cards. For example, style #5 works best with a single column layout.
  • Column Gaps: Controls the spacing between the columns.
  • Read More Label: For styles that include a “Read More” button, you can change the text.
  • Hover Color: Lets you change the hover effect that appears when you hover over an image.

Then there are settings for Single Posts:

  • You can enable a sidebar here too.
  • Show a thumbnail image at the top of the post (note: vertical images will take up a lot of space).
  • Add a post title and choose its alignment (center or left), and adjust its size (though it’s always an H1 element in the HTML—it’s just styled via CSS).
  • You can display the category, date, author, and social sharing buttons.
  • You can display Latest Posts at the bottom of each single post, and set how many to show. If you’re using multiple columns, you can adjust it so the layout looks balanced.
  • And finally, there’s Single Post Navigation, where you can show links to the next or previous post at the end.

All right, that’s it—thanks for watching!