blocks and listings

Publisher Blocks

What are Publisher Blocks and Listings?

Publisher uses content blocks for making pages. This is a very flexible method for creating awesome pages and provides a wide customizability. Use Visual Composer(VC) plugin to manage these content blocks in your pages; “Pages” means all post types. Most of Publisher blocks are exclusively designed for Publisher theme.

Publisher provides you nearly 80 exclusive add-ons for free (58 content blocks and 19 widgets). Publisher add-ons cover large range of styles and functionalities and also are fully customizable.

Here is the list of Publisher content blocks:

  • Mix Listing (18 item)
  • Modern Grid Listing (10 item)
  • Slider Listing (3 item)
  • Blogs Listing (5 item)
  • Classic Listing (3 item)
  • Tail Listing (2 item)
  • Grid Listing (2 item)
  • Thumbnail Listing (3 item)
  • Text Listing (4 item)
  • Box Block (4 item)
  • YouTube and Vimeo Block (4 item)

If you want to see demos of the Publisher content blocks, go to http://demo.betterstudio.com/publisher/ and in main menu go to Features → Content Blocks, look at below image

live demo of publisher content blocks

Now by clicking on every block, you see a demo of that. For example click on Blog 4.block listing 4 Publisher

At the top of the page you see a full list of content blocks.

List of content blocks - Publisher blocks and listings

Take a tour in these content blocks and choose which one you want to use for your homepage (or other pages). Then read How to use content blocks.

A Note About “Mix” Blocks

“Mix” blocks are mixture of other blocks. Knowing this is important when you want to change, for example, typography in these blocks. There is no separate option for “Mix” blocks typography and changes should be applied to original blocks. For example in “Mix 1”, big item inherited from “Grid Listing 1” and small items are from “Thumbnail listing 1”. So change typography options for those blocks to apply changes in “Mix 1” block.

Block nameBig itemSmall item
Mix 1Grid Listing 1Thumbnail listing 1
Mix 2Grid Listing 1Thumbnail listing 2
Mix 3Grid Listing 1Text listing 2
Mix 4Grid Listing 1Thumbnail listing 2
Mix 5Grid Listing 1Thumbnail listing 1
Mix 6Grid Listing 1Text listing 2
Mix 7Grid Listing 1Thumbnail listing 1
Mix 8Grid Listing 1Thumbnail listing 2
Mix 9Grid Listing 1Text listing 2
Mix 10Modern Grid 3Thumbnail listing 1
Mix 11Classic Listing 3Grid Listing 1
Mix 12Classic Listing 3Grid Listing 1
Mix 13Classic Listing 2Grid Listing 1
Mix 14Classic Listing 2Grid Listing 1
Mix 15Classic Listing 2Classic Listing 2
Mix 16Classic Listing 2Classic Listing 2
Mix 17Classic Listing 3Blog listing 1
Mix 18Classic Listing 2Thumbnail listing 1

Blocks and Listings

What are Blocks and Listings?

Publisher uses Visual Composer(VC) plugin as page builder to build awesome pages. The most sophisticated feature of VC is its add-ons. Add-ons increase VC abilities and options. You can buy VC add-ons on its website but Publisher provides you 80+ add-ons for free. Publisher add-ons (i.e blocks and listings) cover large range of styles and functionalities and also are fully customizable.

How Can I Customize Blocks and Listings?

There is a general option panel for Block and Listing; when you change these options, you see the changes in every where that block or listing is using. There is another option for every single widget that you create with VC in your page. The latter could override the first. OK we divide this customization into two parts:

  1. General Options
  2. Specific Options

A. General Options of Publisher Blocks and Listings

For example when you want to make changes to all Modern Grid 1 block in your website, go to general options. Options differs here block to block or listing to listing but generally these are the options:

  • Title Length
  • Excerpt Length (Subtitle Length for some blocks)
  • Post format icon (Standard, Video, Gallery, Audio, Aside, Image, Quote, Status, Chat, Link)
  • Category Badge
  • Post Meta (Author, Date, Views, Shares, Comments, Review)

General options are described in details in Block Settings.

B. Specific Options of Publisher Blocks and Listings

For specific options of a content block in Publisher, read Homepage Blocks to know more about all specific options.