Customise Category Pages and Blog page

Hi there,

Changing the posts per page is quite complex because of pagination: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/155758/have-different-number-of-posts-on-first-page

For the rest, you could try something like this:

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
    if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
         return;
    }

    if ( $query->is_category() ) { // Category pages.
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'rand' ); // Random order
        $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'another-post-type', 'something-else' ) ); // What post types to include
    }

    if ( $query->is_home() ) { // Blog page.
        $query->set( 'orderby', 'rand' ); // Random order
        $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'another-post-type', 'something-else' ) ); // What post types to include
        $query->set( 'cat', '-10' ); // Exclude category 10
    }
} );

For columns, this should help: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-columns-in-the-blog/#adding-columns-to-your-custom-post-type

If your sidebar is broken (moving down the page), it typically means you have some broken HTML on the page. So an opening element (<div> for example) without a closing element (</div>).

Hope this helps!

ok! i’ll try that! and can i remove the excerpts completely from the blog page and the category page so i have only featured image, title and meta tags of categories?

Hi there,

you can set the excerpt to 0 in Customizer > Layout > Blog

excerpt: i did that but it doesn’t work, still showing it.

Are you using Manual Excerpts or Read More on some of your posts ? If so the auto excerpt does not apply.

ok perfect that made it, thanks!

closing

You're welcome