{"id":41948,"date":"2011-02-11T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=41948"},"modified":"2021-04-05T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:43:34","slug":"display","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/posts\/display\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjust How Posts Are Displayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to determine how your Posts are displayed, please follow the directions below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Navigate to your site&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Dashboard<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Site Design<\/strong> on the left side of the screen.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/news-widget-1.jpg\" alt=\"news-widget-1\" title=\"news-widget-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62197\" width=\"138\" height=\"139\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Widgets <\/strong>from the expanded section.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/news-widget-2.jpg\" alt=\"news-widget-2\" title=\"news-widget-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62196\" width=\"137\" height=\"165\" \/><\/li>\n<li>If <b>BU Posts<\/b> is already under a section on the right,\u00a0then skip to step 6.<\/li>\n<li>Select the <b>BU Posts<\/b> box\u00a0from under <strong>Available Widgets<\/strong>. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the box until in a sidebar on the right, then release.<\/li>\n<li>Next to <strong>BU Posts<\/strong> is a gray arrow pointing downwards. Click this\u00a0down-pointing arrow to show more options.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/news-widget-3.jpg\" alt=\"news-widget-3\" title=\"news-widget-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62195\" width=\"233\" height=\"37\" \/><\/li>\n<li>From here you can set a number of options for your new widget, including its display title, what categories are displayed, how many posts are shown, and in what format you&#8217;d like the posts to appear.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/news-widget-4.jpg\" alt=\"news-widget-4\" title=\"news-widget-4\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62194\" width=\"233\" height=\"331\" \/><\/li>\n<li>When you&#8217;ve set all the options you&#8217;d like, click the <strong>Save <\/strong>button.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tech\/files\/2011\/02\/news-widget-5.jpg\" alt=\"news-widget-5\" title=\"news-widget-5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62193\" width=\"232\" height=\"68\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>NOTE: Both the BU Posts widget and the WordPress Recent Posts widget <em>only display recent posts<\/em>. In WordPress terminology, that means 6 months. <strong>Posts with publication dates older than 6 months will not show up on widgets. <\/strong>(If you need a workaround to this limitation, you can always re-edit the post and give it a more recent publication date.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/posts\/categories\/\">&gt;&gt; Create Categories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to determine how your Posts are displayed, please follow the directions below. Navigate to your site&#8217;s\u00a0Dashboard. Select Site Design on the left side of the screen. Select Widgets from the expanded section. If BU Posts is already under a section on the right,\u00a0then skip to step 6. Select the BU Posts box\u00a0from under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3321,"featured_media":0,"parent":41936,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41948"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134169,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41948\/revisions\/134169"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}