A Query Loop Block is probably best used as part (or all) or your home page. It loops through your posts and shows them either in carousel style or grid style.
I’ve discovered that, if you have a pinned post, most of the time it will show that one first, even if you have the block set to show only one post on the page.
There are a handful of styles from which you can choose when you pick the carousel type. I show each of them in separate Query Loop Blocks below. The 4th and 6th carousels styles do not show the pinned post.
Here is the first carousel style.
Writing Articles for Your Affiliate Site
There are two main types of articles you may have on your affiliate income site: Reviews and Informational. It this article, I will share how I can help provide you with such content. Writing Review Articles You can suggest all sorts of things for inclusion in your article – title, subheadings, keywords, etc. I will…
Ultimate Blocks vs Spectra vs Easy Table of Contents
I’ve always used either Table of Contents Plus or a “fork” of that plugin known as Easy Table of Contents. I only switched some of my sites to Easy Table of Contents when it appeared for a time that Table of Contents Plus wasn’t being supported. As of this writing, both plugins are supported and…
Here is the 2nd carousel style within a Query Loop Block.
Writing Articles for Your Affiliate Site
There are two main types of articles you may have on your affiliate income site: Reviews and Informational. It this article, I will share how I can help provide you with such content. Writing Review Articles You can suggest all sorts of things for inclusion in your article – title, subheadings, keywords, etc. I will…
Ultimate Blocks vs Spectra vs Easy Table of Contents
I’ve always used either Table of Contents Plus or a “fork” of that plugin known as Easy Table of Contents. I only switched some of my sites to Easy Table of Contents when it appeared for a time that Table of Contents Plus wasn’t being supported. As of this writing, both plugins are supported and…
Here’s the 3rd carousel style within a Query Loop Block.
Here’s the 4th carousel style within a Query Loop Block.
Ultimate Blocks vs Spectra vs Easy Table of Contents
I’ve always used either Table of Contents Plus or a “fork” of that plugin known as Easy Table of Contents. I only switched some of my sites to Easy Table of Contents when it appeared for a time that Table of Contents Plus wasn’t being supported. As of this writing, both plugins are supported and…
Spectra Item List
Spectra (formerly Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg) has a block called Icon List. You use it for making lists that have icons (or images, or nothing) instead of the typical bullets or numbers. Below are some examples of its use. The first uses a Spectra Container block, which Spectra seems to think is best to employ…
Query Loop Block and More
A Query Loop Block is probably best used as part (or all) or your home page. It loops through your posts and shows them either in carousel style or grid style. I’ve discovered that, if you have a pinned post, most of the time it will show that one first, even if you have the…
Schema Blocks – How-To, FAQ, and Review
With the Ultimate Addons plugin, you get pre-designed “schema” blocks for How-To, FAQ, and Review posts. What follows is a brief look at each of these so you can see if you want to use them on your site. FAQ Schema This schema works for me in the editor, but not on the published page.…
Content Display and Columns Blocks
This post is all about designing the way you want your articles to show up on a page. The Content Display Block (PublishPress) is great for the home page. Blocks related to columns are for each individual post (or page) and how the paragraphs and so on are arranged within the post. Content Display Block…
From Head to Toe – Headings, TOC, and More
You can get quite fancy (or not) with your headings, table of contents (TOC), and spacing within a post (or page). In this post, I’ll examine the options from WP, Ultimate Addons, and PublishPress as appropriate. Let’s Start with Headings By default, when you insert a Heading Block (or change a regular Paragraph Block into…
Here’s the 5th carousel style within a Query Loop Block.
Here’s the 6th and final carousel style within a Query Loop Block.
Ultimate Blocks vs Spectra vs Easy Table of Contents
Spectra Item List
Query Loop Block and More
Schema Blocks – How-To, FAQ, and Review
I think most of the above displays would look better on a page where you used the full width (or nearly the full width) as opposed to having a widgets column at the right (or left).
I’m not going to try showing the grid view because setting it up seems unnecessarily convoluted. There are better options for showing posts in a grid than this one.
Post Title
Below is the title of this post.
Query Loop Block and More
Why you would want to add the Post Title Block to your post, I don’t know. I think it’s just there as part of the whole Gutenberg scheme and not really meant to be selected.
The same would be true of these blocks.
- Post Content
- Post Date
- Post Excerpt
- Post Featured Image
You can see them in your list of available blocks, but don’t insert them anywhere manually. Just let them do their thing on their own naturally.
Latest Posts Block
For a long time (in Internet years), I’ve used a plugin called Recent Posts Widget with Thumbnails. It has a ton of options, most of which I simply don’t use. It seems that WP noticed the popularity of such widgets and so created a block that does essentially the same thing.
The block below is the result.
- Ultimate Blocks vs Spectra vs Easy Table of Contents
- Spectra Item List
- Query Loop Block and More
- Schema Blocks – How-To, FAQ, and Review
- Content Display and Columns Blocks
Now, I wouldn’t normally use this block inline within a post like this. I’d add it to a right (or left) hand column where you see pretty much the same thing right now.
By the time you read this though, I may have decided to make the switch and eliminate the widget plugin and use this Latest Posts Block in its place.
The only thing I don’t care for is that there is no space between the featured images. I probably could get used to that though.
This block does have quite a few options built in. You can include post content – either an excerpt (of a length you decide) or the full post, which seems unnecessary in all but the rarest use cases. You can display the author’s name, the post date, and (obviously) the featured image. You can adjust the size of the image (by default, it’s 4 times as big as what you see now) and decide whether or not to make the image a link to the post.
Finally, you can sort and filter (by category and author) which posts to show, and you can choose how many to include in the list (5 by default).

