Specific Posts & Pages in a Grid?

  • What I’d like to do seems easy in concept but I can’t find the blocks to do it, and haven’t done much WP since Gutenberg came out, so I could use advice and pointing to the right direction.

    I have a site that is a standard blog and want to add pages that are “curated” with specific content (my posts, my pages, external links) that I can hand-curate and sort one at a time, and store those in a grid. It’s a career themed site for grade school ages, so custom sorting and choosing the right post in the right spot is my main concern. If I post on “Summer Jobs Outdoors” I may want to put it on a “Summer Jobs” page but also on an “Outdoor Jobs” page, but then move it around in the Winter so it’s not as featured on the “Outdoor Jobs” page for example.

    The layout is just a simple grid with featured image and excerpt, so I know WP can handle all that, it’s just finding a way to get a good grid that lets me put specific posts in a specific order. So far all the Post Block plugins I’ve tried want to put all my posts in a category or tag or whatever in there, and I just want to be able to have finer control!

    Thanks for any tips or ideas,
    Andrew

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    You could configure query loop blocks to each display a single post by filtering by a unique tag assigned to each post. You can then order blocks however you like. It’d be up to your theme to display blocks in a grid format. If your preferred theme doesn’t do this on its own, some custom CSS could accomplish it, or you could implement a masonry style layout if you have some jQuery coding skills.

    Another place in WP where you can arbitrarily order objects is in an image gallery. You could create galleries of post featured images, specifying post content for the caption and linking the image to its related single post page. Not ideal, but it kind of gets to what you desire.

    There are gallery plugins that will accommodate arbitrary content, they are not limited to images. One of these may give you the functionality you’re after.

    You can arbitrarily order widgets and menu items, but then you’re limited on how many different arrangements you can make.

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