## Reading aids: how the four blocks work

Product: Verba - Modern Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/verba/the-single-post/reading-aids
Updated: 2026-09-09
Summary: The four blocks above an article in Verba, where each is switched on, where its content comes from, and why an enabled block shows nothing on some posts.
Availability: Pro only.

Four independent blocks can sit above the article text. They are not one "article mode": each is switched on separately, any of them can stay off forever, and none depends on another.

## The rule they all share

The switch lives in Theme Options. The content lives in the post.

So a block that is switched on renders nothing on a post that has no data for it. That is deliberate, not an empty frame and not a bug: the page does not put a heading above nothing.

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"I turned it on and I cannot see it" almost always means the post field is empty. Check the post before you check the setting.

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There is one exception. The table of contents is built from the article itself rather than from a field, so it has nothing to fill in. It appears when the text contains headings at the levels you selected.

## The order on the page

From the top down: the summarize row, the TL;DR card, the key points card, the table of contents, then the article text. The order is fixed and not configurable.

## Where each one lives

All four are on [[Verba > Theme Options > Single Post > Body]], each in its own group.

<table> <thead> <tr> <th>Block</th> <th>Group</th> <th>Content comes from</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Summarize with AI</td> <td>Summarize With AI</td> <td>Generated on request</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Summary (TL;DR)</td> <td>Summary (TL;DR)</td> <td>The <strong>Summary (TL;DR)</strong> field in the post</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Key points</td> <td>Key Points</td> <td>The <strong>Key points</strong> repeater in the post</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Table of contents</td> <td>Table of Contents</td> <td>The article headings</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

The post fields for the first two are in the Editorial panel under the editor. The summary is a text field; key points is a repeating list, one takeaway per row.

## Heading tag and heading size

Three of the four blocks carry the same trio of heading controls: the text, its HTML tag, and its size. Tag and size are separate on purpose.

The **tag** is document structure: it tells search engines and screen readers whether this line is a section heading of the article. The **size** is only appearance.

For most posts a TL;DR is not a section of the article, so a paragraph tag is more honest than an `h2`, even when you want it to look prominent. Set the tag for the structure and the size for the design.

Each block also has a **style** field: which surface the card is painted on, from the theme shared set.

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The TL;DR and key points cards sit next to each other. Two different surfaces on adjacent cards reads as a layout mistake, so keeping them the same is a good default.

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## Where to go next

- TL;DR
- Key points
- Table of contents
- Summarize with AI

The reading bar holds a second place for the summarize action and the reading progress. Sources and citations is a fifth editorial block, but it sits at the end of a post rather than the start, so it has its own page.