Manticore: Recent Reviews Particle
Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Manticore Demo for WordPress
Introduction
The Recent Reviews particle displays your latest posts or featured content, along with images and text.
Here are the topics covered in this guide:
Configuration
Settings
These options affect the main area of the particle, and not the individual items within. You can set the title of the particle, as well as give it an introductory paragraph here.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Particle Name | This is the name of the particle used for back end management. It does not appear on the front end. |
| Content Source | Choose between Particle and WordPress as the Content Source. |
| CSS Classes | Enter any CSS class(es) you wish to have apply to the particle. |
| Title | Set a title for the particle. |
| All Items Label | Enter a text label to bring up all items regardless of category. |
| Selected | Choose the selected nav item by default. |
| Date Format | Select the date format to be displayed. |
Particle Item Options
These items make up the individual featured items in the particle. Items in this section will only appear if Particle is selected as the Content Source.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Item Name | This is the name of the item. This appears as the item's title on the front end. |
| Date | Enter a date for the post. |
| Author | Enter an author's name. |
| Author Avatar | Select an avatar to appear for the author. |
| Image | Set an image to appear in the item. |
| Description | Enter a text description for the item. |
| URL | Enter a URL you would like the item to link to. |
| Target | Select a target window for the URL to open through. |
Posts
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Categories | Select the categories of posts this particle will display. |
| Posts | Select the number of posts you would like the particle to fetch. |
| Sticky Posts | Choose how Sticky Posts should be filtered. Choose between Show and Hide. |
| Number of Posts | Enter the maximum number of posts to display. |
| Start From | Enter offset specifying the first post to return. The default is '0' (the first post). |
| Order By | Choose the type of factor to order by. |
| Ordering Direction | Choose between Ascending and Descending as the post ordering method. |
Display
This section configures how posts are displayed.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Image | Display the image assigned to the post's Intro, Full or None. |
| Content Type | Choose between Content and Excerpt for the post text to be displayed. You can also Hide. |
| Content Limit | Set a limit (in characters) for the post text displayed. |
| Content Formatting | Choose between HTML and Plain Text formatting for the post's text. |
| Category | Show or Hide the post's category. |
| Title | Show or Hide the post's title. |
| Title Limit | Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display. |
| Date | Show or Hide post dates. |
| Date Format | Set the format that dates will be displayed in. |
| Link | Show or Hide the Read More link. |
| Target | Set a target window for the read more link. |
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