Blog posts live under Posts in the left-hand menu, separate from Pages. Each post has a title, body content, a category, an optional hero photo or gallery, and a byline — the name shown as the author, which can be different from the account that published it. Once a post is published, feature it (or a filtered list of posts) on any page with the Brentwood Blog block.
Posts → Add New.Note
Blog cards crop photos to a wide 3:2 shape by default. A landscape photo works best — a tall portrait photo will be cropped at the sides.
Every post has two different "authors". The WordPress account that writes and publishes the post is used for signing in and permissions — but the name actually shown on the site is the Author field in the Blog Details box. Fill that in with the byline you want readers to see, and it's used no matter who is logged in when the post goes live.
This is how a Blog Manager can write up and publish a post for someone else — a student or a teacher, say — and have it show that person's name, without needing to give them a login at all.
Posts (or start a new one).Note
Leave Author blank and the post shows the display name of whichever WordPress account published it instead.
A post can show a large photo, gallery or slideshow above its title — the same hero feature used on pages, controlled in the Page Settings box on the post's edit screen. Posts can use any of the photo-based hero styles — Featured Image, Featured Gallery or Featured Carousel. The full set of hero controls (focus point, zoom, height) is covered in the guide on page settings — this is just the quick version for posts.
By default, a new post's hero is already set to Featured Image — so once you set a Featured image (in the Featured image panel on the right — see How do I write a new blog post?), that's your hero photo too. There's nothing extra to configure unless you want a gallery or carousel instead:
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Setting Hero type to Off — no hero removes the photo from the top of the post itself — but the Featured image still appears as the thumbnail in blog listings and the Blog block.
Categories group posts by topic — Athletics, Arts, Admissions and so on — and are what the Blog block filters on when you feature posts on a page (see How do I feature blog posts on a page?). On the post edit screen, find the Categories box in the sidebar and tick every category that applies. To create a new one, click + Add New Category, type its name, and click Add New Category again to confirm.
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A post with no category ticked is filed under Uncategorized.
Posts don't just sit on their own — the Brentwood Blog block lists (or features) them on any page. Edit the page, click the block inserter +, search for Brentwood Blog, and insert it.
On its own, the block shows the eight newest posts in a four-column grid, newest first, with a search box and page-by-page navigation built in — visitors can search and page through without leaving the page. With the block selected, use the settings panel on the right to change any of this:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Heading | The heading shown above the grid. Leave it blank to hide it. |
| Columns | How many columns wide the grid is (1–6). |
| Posts per page | How many posts show before paging to the next set. |
| Categories | Show only posts in the categories you choose here — leave empty to show every category. |
| Featured post (large) | Shows the newest matching post as a large feature above the grid. |
| Show search | Adds a search box visitors can use to filter the grid. |
| Show pagination | Adds page-number buttons below the grid. |
The Query panel also lets you filter by tag or by a single author's account, skip the first few posts, or change how sticky posts are handled — useful for advanced layouts, but most pages only need Categories above.
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The block's own Author filter (in the Query panel) matches the WordPress account that published each post — not the byline typed into the Author field in Blog Details. If several people's posts are all published from one shared account, this filter can't tell them apart; use Categories instead.
Posts.Note
A future date schedules the post to go live then (the button changes to Schedule); a past date backdates it. Either way, posts are listed newest-first by this date — on the site and in the Blog block.
You have two options, depending on whether the change is permanent:
Important
Trashing a post removes it from every category listing and every Blog block it appeared in. If you only want it off the site for a while, use Draft instead — the content, photo and byline are all still there when you bring it back.