Show list of posts in same category in single post sidebar

Found it via google search. For those looking for this feature, you choose Enfold Latest News widget and drag it into a widget area. For me, I created a custom widget for each category, then put an Enfold Latest News in each, selecting the appropriate category for each custom widget area. As only 20 items can be shown for each Latest News widget, I don’t know what to do when I have more posts in that area.

Can the Enfold author, etc. address how to allow for more than 20 articles to be shown?

Thanks!
Jon

Hi Ismael,

I believe I am using the advance layout builder . . . I just started using Enfold and am learning it–is the advance layout builder the drag and drop interface that is similar to visual composer/wpBakery? If so, yes. I will take a look at the posts you referenced and see if that helps. I am guessing it will be what I am looking for.

Thanks!
Jon

PS I have some other questions, but am guessing that putting those in their own threads would be best so others can find them.

Hi Ismael ,

I have read through those and it looks like this basically adds related posts at the bottom of the post. I have a couple of questions:
1) re: inserting the code to prevent the current post from showing in the post slider into functions.php, does that go into the child theme functions.php, or the parent? Assuming child.

2) I have close to 150 articles that I’ll need to manually go select and setup this posts slider–is it possible for this to be done automatically based on the category of the post being shown? I only assign each post 1 category.

3) Rather than using posts slider, is there a way to have just a list of all posts in a category in the sidebar? Doing this without the thumbnail of the image would be fine. Ideally, this would automatically show the category posts of the post being shown (so, if somebody is reading a post on Communication (category = couples), then the sidebar would show all Couples posts.

EDIT: 4) Sometimes, the font of the post slider looks messy. I messed up my laptop when cleaning the hd and cannot do screenshots, but the text looks pixilated sometimes

EDIT: 5) The arrows on the slider post cover up part of the panel. can those arrows be either smaller, or placed not on top of the panel?

Thanks!
Jon

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by gatehealing.

Apologies for the extra questions. . . those were supposed to go in another thread that was left open for other ALB questions that might come up as I got things dialed in.

I am experimenting with getting blog dialed in, then will work on the category list thing via plugin.

Best,
Jon

Hi Victoria,

Thanks, I’m getting them answered as we go along in other threads. Wish I knew a lot more about the technical parts of this stuff!. This one is ok for now, though I may come back or start a new question should the ideas suggested not work out.

Thanks!
Jon