Your theme decides what a blog post looks like: where the date sits, whether the author box appears, how the featured image is cropped. Changing any of it usually means editing the theme.
The Blog Builder blocks let you lay that page out yourself. Each piece of a post — title, content, image, meta, author, comments, navigation — is a block you place where you want it.
Before You Start
- Edition: Free. Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated, this block renders byte-for-byte the same output.
- Block to enable: the Blog Builder blocks, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- A single post template to build in. These blocks belong in a template that renders one post, not on a standalone page.
- At least one published post to preview the template against.
Steps
- Create a single post template to build in.
- Add the blocks you want, in the order you want them — title, image, meta, content, author, comments, navigation.
- Style each one on its own settings panel.
- Preview against a real published post, then assign the template.
How It Behaves
Seven blocks make up the set. Six are free and one, Post Navigation, needs Pro.
- Build this inside a single post template. The block reads whichever post the page is showing — it has no setting for picking one. In a Blog Builder template that is the post being viewed, which is exactly what you want.
- Six of the seven are free. Measured with Pro deactivated: Post Title, Post Content, Post Image, Post Meta, Post Author and Post Comments all produced byte-for-byte identical output. Only Post Navigation stops rendering.
- Each block pulls one thing. Title, content, featured image, meta line, author box and comments are separate blocks with their own settings.
- Order is yours. Nothing requires the title to come first or the comments last.
- On an ordinary page it shows that page’s data, not nothing. Measured: a Post Title block dropped onto a normal page rendered the page’s own title. The block does not check that it is on a post, so a mistake here shows the wrong thing rather than an error.
- With no post to read, it renders an empty shell rather than disappearing. Measured outside any post: the markup is still there with nothing inside it. If you are seeing an unexplained gap in a template, this is usually why.
Limitations
- These blocks only make sense in a single post template. Placed anywhere else they read whatever the page is and show that instead.
- There is no post picker. You cannot point one of these blocks at a specific post; use Post Listing for that.
- Post Navigation is Pro and renders nothing without it, leaving a gap at the bottom of the template.
- Your template replaces the theme’s. Anything the theme was adding that you do not add yourself will be gone.
- Preview against a real post. An empty template preview tells you very little, because with no post to read the blocks render empty rather than complaining.
Troubleshooting
The blocks are showing the wrong content
They read whichever post the page is showing. On an ordinary page that is the page itself, so the title block shows the page title. Move them into a single post template.
There is a gap where a block should be
Most of these render an empty container when there is no post to read, so the space is theirs. Check the template is being applied to a post.
The next and previous links are missing
Post Navigation is the one Pro block in the set. Without Pro it is not registered and renders nothing.
My featured image is not appearing
The Post Image block renders nothing at all when a post has no featured image. Check the post.
