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title: Latest Post 🛒
description: "To customize the Latest Post Block, you can use the below settings: - **General** - **Columns:** Select the column option to show the post in 2c/3c/4c. - **Author Type:** Select the author type option to show as an image or…"
url: "https://spiceblocks.com/docs/latest-post/"
updated: "2024-06-12"
category: Blocks Customization
---

# Latest Post 🛒

To customize the Latest Post Block, you can use the below settings:

- **General**
  - **Columns:** Select the column option to show the post in 2c/3c/4c.
  - **Author Type:** Select the author type option to show as an image or icon.
  - **Spacing:** Adjust the margin and padding of the latest posts box.
  - **Border:** Adjust the border radius, color, and style.
  - **Post Content Settings:**
    - Hide/Show post content using the "Enable/Disable post content" setting.
    - Padding & Margin: Adjust the content, heading, description padding, and heading & description margin.
    - **Border:** Adjust the content border radius, color, and style.
    - Show post content as a Full post or Excerpt and set the max number of words with the Excerpt option.
    - **Button:** Enable/disable the button, adjust the button padding & margin, change the button label, and set the border radius, color, & style of the button.
  - **Post Meta Settings:**
    - Padding: Adjust the padding of the post meta.
    - Enable/Disable the date, author name, comment, and categories of the post.
  - **Featured Image Settings:** Enable/disable the post features image.
  - **Sorting and Filtering:**
    - **Order By:** Show the posts as latest or oldest and in alphabetical order.
    - **Categories:** Select post categories that posts you want to show in the blog section.
    - **Author:** Select the author name that the author posts wants to show in the blog section.
    - **Number of Items:** Set the number how many posts you want to show.
  - **Display:** Hide/Show the Latest Post individually from a desktop, tablet, or mobile.
  - **Animation Effects:** Set the animation effects with multiple options on the Latest Post like Fade, Bounce, Swing, etc.

- **Featured Image Overlay**
  - Enable/Disable the image overlay, change the overlay color, and also set the opacity of the overlay.

- **Box Shadow**
  - Adjust the box shadow of the post content and button.

- **Color & Background Settings**
  - Change the color of the post title, content, meta, and button, also change the background color of the post box & button.

- **Typography**
  - Set the typography of the post title, meta, content, and button using **Font Size,** **Font Family, Font Weight**, **Line Height, Text transformation, Text decoration,** and **Letter Spacing** options.

- **Additional Settings**
  - You can add the Additional unique ID, Additional class, and custom CSS code.