“Layout Elements”/”Posts”: inconvenient option menu

using WordPress 5.4.2 / CoBlocks 2.0.2 (and earlier)

CoBlocks options menu seems to have unnecessary dependencies on the number of posts which are currently present.

(1) CoBlocks options menu becomes unusable when a category is selected which has no post yet
(2) CoBlocks number of columns appears to be limited by number of currently present posts

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(1) CoBlocks options menu becomes unusable
How I reproduce the issue:
* edit a post or page
* insert a “Posts” block
* select the block and go to its settings
* select “Feed settings”
* select a category that has not yet been assigned to a single post
* all block settings disappear except “Advanced” and the “Feed Settings/My Blog or external feed”

consequences:
(1) e.g. you can no longer edit the appearance (e.g. thumbnail size)
(2) and in particular: you cannot change the ‘Category’ settings back to the original value

workarounds:
(1) create a post with the category you chose … if you remember which category you – maybe accidentally – clicked, the options will reappear after refresh
or
(2) go to the database, locate the block parameters in the post_content, find the category ID you chose, find the category name for that category ID and proceed with (1)
or
(3) delete the block and start again

It would be more convenient if the block options would not depend on whether a post is already present or not.

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(2) unnecessary limit of column number

After I insert a Posts block, I can only choose number of columns in options menu that is less or equal to MIN( number of posts to display, currently existing number of posts)

It appears to me:

(1) number of columns must be <= number of posts to display. This makes sense.
(2) number of columns must be <= number of posts that currently exist in the chosen category. This – imho – does not make sense … this is a CMS and content will come in after I set up the pages.

It would be more convenient if the number of columns can be chosen independently from the currently existing number of posts.

• This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by olafeichstaedt.