Post Block Tabs

This home page section displays your latest posts by categories, tags, or authors in side-by-side blocks. By default, it displays by category.

By default, you can use the custom field Key “Thumbnail” with a Value of an image URL to show a thumbnail. If you don’t do this, then the theme will look for an image attached to your page. If there is, it will display the first image it finds as a thumbnail.

Post Block Tabs were originally called Category Tabs (versions before 1.2).

How do you use this?

In your WordPress dashboard, go to “Design > Structure Theme Settings” to set it up.

On that screen, you’ll see three home sections. Choose “Post Block Tabs” for one of those three sections. Then, scroll down the page until you see “Tab/Section 1 - 8.” From there, you can choose which category you want to use for each tab.

How do you use tags or authors instead?

This is a fairly simple process. In your theme folder, look for a file in /app/config.php. Look for this code:

function choose_tab_type() {
	$type = __('Categories','structure');
	// $type = __('Tags','structure');
	// $type = __('Authors','structure');
	return $type;
}

Now, let’s suppose you want to display posts by tag. Comment out the categories line:

// $type = __('Categories','structure');

Then, just uncomment the tags line:

$type = __('Tags','structure');

Refresh your Theme Settings page in your WordPress dashboard. You can now display post tabs by tag.

Follow these same steps to display posts by author.