Format of Blog Posts

I realized this is happening because I’ve made one of TABS at the top link to a blog category. Is there a way to make my posts “feed” into one of the options in the “Our Focus” widget? Here’s my mock site:

I want that “What’s the Wod” button to land them on the latest blog post that is categorized as WOD. And I want them to land on the latest blog post when they click on the WOD tab. When I “feed” that button with a category, though, the post reformats to a justified and hard-to-read paragraph.

Right now, it seems a “fix” would be to limit my “new posts” to WODs and somehow have the posts appear through the “What’s the WOD” button rather than “Latest News.” But that’s troubling, because I’d like all of our EVENTS to feed in at the “Latest News” section.

So, I want to add a new post, and have some of them appear in “Latest News” and some appear on “What’s the WOD.” (but not reformat to an ugly paragraph.

Is this possible?

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Seems like new problem to me. Have used this theme, including comprehensive use of blog posts, didn’t face this problem.
However, one of the two things might be happening:
1. “ENTER” or blank line from editor is not being read into HTML code. Thus try going to “Text” option in editor, and manually enter paragraph <p>… </p> or Line Break </br> tags

2. If that doesn’t work, try using a shortcode plugin for layout. I would recommend using “Shortcodes Ultimate” (https://gndev.info/shortcodes-ultimate/) which has multiple layout and element option + easy to use ??

Hope this helps

The reason for the reformat in a category archive like /category/wod/ in zerif lite can be found in content.php, there it uses the_excerpt() for each entry which strips the formatting. You could use the_content() there instead to avoid that. Happens right after <div class="entry-content"> at line 75 in content.php.

“Latest News” will use all posts, regardless of category. You could add a filter so only a certain category is used, example code here, requires some programming skills though.

Dear, Brilliant @Ov3fly … IT WORKED!!!!!!! Fabulous-and thank you.

I’m too scared to do the “latest news” filter, but I’ve copied the code to study it more.