Blocksolid Gather

Blockolid Gather is a content aggregator which allows you to use a shortcode or gutenberg block to display related posts, pages, posts or custom post types in a slideshow or grid.

In the Classic Editor Gather can be conjured using a simple shortcode such as:

[blocksolid_gather specificposttitle=”My Post”]

If you use the Block Editor / Gutenberg our included Gather block allows you to choose your related posts via specified parameters and provides a live-preview of them within your page.

If you are using our separate Blocksolid plugin as a page builder and Gutenberg overlay the Blocksolid Gather plugin also integrates well with this.

Blocksolid Gather Features

• Display any content as a slideshow or posts block grid
• Choose max posts
• Choose first post to return
• Choose number per row
• Choose post type
• Choose specific post title
• Order by date created, last modified, alphabetical title, random, author, relevance, menu order
• Order ascending or decending
• Hide margins between columns and rows
• Pad out incomplete final rows
• Filter by categories
• Filter by tags
• Related posts
• Choose the excerpt length
• Choose the excerpt sign-off
• Choose the excerpt sign-off
• Position media top, right, left, right or no media
• Choose media size from registered sizes including registered custom sizes
• Select a default placeholder image if a post does not have media or none at all
• Show only the media in a media grid
• Show image caption
• Link media to post
• Link caption to post
• Add media zoom hover effect
• Display videos including YouTube, Vimeo, Rumble and Dailymotion using their embed links
• Display Podcasts e.g. Buzzsprout
• Optionally show date last modified, author, categories, tags under post

• Install the plugin using the WordPress ‘Add New plugin’ functionality and activate.

• Once activated a new Gather block will be added to those available within the WordPress block editor – make sure that you are not hiding any!.

• You can then call gather via a short code like [blocksolid_gather specificposttitle=”My Post”]

• Parameters include:

• max_posts (number)

• first_post (number)
• number_per_row (number)
• order_by (‘post_date’, ‘modified’ ‘title’, ‘rand’, ‘author’, ‘relevance’, ‘menu_order’)
• ascending (true, false)
• get_related (true, false)
• specificposttitle (string)
• partial_match_title_start (true, false)
• categories (numbers)
• tags (numbers)
• primary_category_id (number)
• post_type (‘post’, ‘page’, ‘custom-you-have-set’)
• site (number – for multisite)
• media_position (‘top, ‘right’, ‘bottom’, ‘left’, ‘none’)
• media_size (‘thumbnail, ‘medium’, ‘large’, ‘full’, ‘widescreen_thumbnail’, ‘widescreen_medium’, ‘widescreen_large’, ‘custom-you-have-set’)
• excerpt_length (number)
• excerpt_signoff (string like ‘read more…’)
• placeholder_image_src (src of image you want to use as a default placeholder)
• placeholder_image_id (id of image you want to use as a default placeholder)
• show_media_only (true, false)
• show_media_caption (true, false)
• show_media_link (true, false)
• media_hover (true, false)
• show_figcaption_link (true, false)
• hide_margins (true, false)
• final_row_pad_empty (true, false)
• show_date_created (true, false)
• show_author (true, false)
• show_categories (true, false)
• show_tags (true, false)
• display_slideshow (true, false)
• autoplay_video (true, false)
• dashicon_arrows (true, false)

• use_thickbox (true, false)

• if you use the built-in Gutenberg block editor for your website you can use the plugin’s bespoke ‘Gather’ block to place the aggregator within your content as many times as you like in whatever arrangement.

• The Gather block gives you a live preview within the Gutenberg editor.

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2.1.3

Pages now respect related content and show siblings or children as appropriate. Issue with partial filter bleeding out sorted – 17 June 2025

2.1.2

Extended partial title omission to figcaptions – 27 May 2025

2.1.1

If block slider given class .auto automatically progresses every 10 seconds and if given class of interval-nnnnnn then nnnnnn overrides the number in milliseconds – 20 May 2025

2.1.0

Fixed minor bug – 19 May 2025

2.0.9

In a slideshow buttons showing titles can have the partial title omitted. Better handing of thickbox triggers including omission from mobile – 30 April 2025

2.0.8

In a slideshow buttons showing titles and numbers now have an active state – 18 February 2025

2.0.7

Events ordering restored – 07 February 2025

2.0.6

Partial title matches now can be ordered by parameters other than just title – 03 February 2025

2.0.5

Events now can be ordered properly by start date – 28 January 2025

2.0.4

Additional support for The Events Calendar – 16 December 2024

2.0.3

Shortcodes stripped from truncated excerpts – 13 December 2024

2.0.2

Button per slide variations – 22 November 2024

2.0.1

Slideshows, tidy up of controls – 21 November 2024

1.2.0

Partial match of start of title – 12 November 2024

1.1.9

*Set the __nextHasNoMarginBottom prop to true for back-end controls – 14 October 2024*

1.1.8

React code updated, bumped up to WordPress 6.5 – 18 March 2024

1.1.7

Removed deprecated third parameter from shortcode – 24 October 2023

1.1.6

Full excerpts now apply_filters – 16 October 2023

1.1.5

Added better support for custom post type taxonomies – 16 May 2023

1.1.4

Replaced deprecated function get_page_by_title() – 10 March 2023

1.1.3

Fixed bug with tags not showing if only one tag – 15 February 2023

1.1.2

Default image caption from post title – 10 November 2022

1.1.1

Removed limit on tags and categories – 04 April 2022

1.1.0

Added a div to layout – 08 March 2022

1.0.9

Added way to move meta above title – 28 February 2022

1.0.8

Layout tweaks – 24 February 2022

1.0.7

Fixed bug with author link – 10 February 2022

1.0.6

Added way to move title and meta and also to add excerpt as summary at top – 09 February 2022

1.0.5

Tweaked to respect specified excerpts – 03 February 2022

1.0.4

Added a class to indicate the chosen number per row – 02 February 2022

1.0.3

Optionally show date last modified, author, categories, tags under post – 28 January 2022

1.0.2

Added ability to choose to exclude specific categories – 18 January 2022

1.0.1

Release Date – 07 January 2022

First release