Problem with columns/latest posts display

[Nick Oswald]

Hi there I’m trying to set up a homepage section with one column having some text (looks ok) and the second column listing the latest blog posts.

You can see it here: www.lyndaoswald.kinsta.com

To display the blogpost I’m using the shortcode like this

[column_content type=”one_half”]

<h2>Recent Posts</h2>

[recentposts col=”1″]

[/column_content]

Two problems:

1) The blog post does not appear in the second column, but in the next row, under the first column

2) I don’t want the blog post image, and I’d like the text to be much smaller (its huge!). Anything I can do about that?

 

 

 

[Sonal S Sinha]

I don’t think this is the correct code: [recentposts col=”1″]

Check the correct shortcode in Appearance>Theme Options>Shortcode

Regards,
Shri

[Nick Oswald]

It is the correct code. In the shortcode menu it states
Recent Posts
[recentposts col=”3″]
Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p355r3egbkm7ejp/Screenshot%202015-10-13%2016.32.28.png?dl=0

[Sonal S Sinha]

Okay now i get it shortcodes within shortcodes won’t work. So you have 2 column shortcode and within that you are using another shortcode of recent posts.

So it won’t work.

Regards,
Shri

[Sonal S Sinha]

You have to use some kind of div (html based) to have 2 columns and within that you can use shortcode of recent post and other.

Regards,
Shri

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