Post and term listings - Verba

Pro has two listing components: the post listing, and the term listing, which shows categories or tags. Each one is declared once, as a single description of its fields, their groups, and the conditions between them. Every place you meet a listing is built from that description.

#One set of settings, many places to edit it

The post listing settings are the same wherever you edit them. Only the editor around them changes:

Where the listing is	Where you edit it	How the groups appear
Post Listing block	The block inspector in the block editor	One panel per group, Layout first, Query last
Post Listing Elementor widget	The Elementor panel	One section per group on the Content tab, plus a separate Query tab
Advanced archives	VerbaTheme OptionsArchive	The groups inside the archive settings
Header and footer tickers	The Posts Ticker tab of VerbaTheme OptionsNavigation or VerbaTheme OptionsFooter	The groups a ticker uses
Category mega menus	Edit listing on the menu item, at AppearanceMenus	The listing fields on the menu item

A group has the same name, holds the same fields, and comes in the same order in each of them. Card Parts in the block inspector is the same field as Card Parts in Elementor, with the same choices and the same default. If you've set up a listing in one editor, you already know where everything is in the others.

That's also how the theme can offer this many listing settings. Each one is described once, so a new card type or a new field reaches every editor at the same time instead of being rebuilt for each.

The full list of groups and what each one controls is in Listing settings, group by group.

#Why a group is missing in one place

The groups are the same, but a surface only shows the ones that make sense for it. When a group or a field isn't there, it's for one of these reasons:

The surface decides it

An archive takes its posts from the page it's on, so it has no Listing Type (an archive is always a grid). A mega menu shows a grid only, without pagination or content injection. Archive Mode exists only on the block and the widget, because only they can be placed on an archive template.

The listing type decides it

The Ticker, Slider, and Carousel groups appear only for that listing type. Pagination exists on the grid only.

A switch decides it

Pagination, Content Injection, Show Section Title, and Show Promo Bar are switches in Layout. Their groups appear once the switch is on.

Card Parts decides it

Turn the thumbnail off in Card Parts and the Thumbnail group goes with it. The same applies to the title, the excerpt, the meta row, and the read more button.

An integration decides it

Review settings need the reviews integration, multiple authors need the co-authors integration, and AI Mode in the query needs the AI Blog integration.

#The term listing

The term listing is smaller and has its own settings. It exists as the Taxonomy Listing block and Elementor widget, and has no Theme Options surface. It shares only the Section Title and Promo Bar groups with the post listing.

#Where third-party sources stop

A live listing from Algolia is a separate block and widget with its own data source, not a mode of the post listing. It reuses the card and appearance groups, and replaces the query with its own search, filter, and sort settings. See Algolia integration.

#Where to go next

• Listing settings, group by group: every group and what it controls.
• Where listings are used: every place a listing appears.
• Listing settings and query: where the posts come from.
• Customizing the look of a listing: listing types, card types, and columns.

Last updated 8 Oct 2026