Verba Blog settings: titles, summaries, draft visibility

This article covers functionality available to customers on the Pro version.

VerbaTheme OptionsBlogContent holds the rules that apply everywhere posts are shown: archives, blocks under an article, sliders, anywhere.

A listing card whose title starts in bright text and ends in a softer gray — A split title in a post listing.

This page sets how posts are presented. What ends up in a particular list is decided by the settings of that list, described in Listing settings and query.

#Post titles in listings

The Post Titles group has two parts.

The Post Titles group with Split Title on and Short Summary Tooltip off — The Post Titles group.

Gives the opening words of a listing title more weight than the rest. It is a typographic effect, easier to recognize on screen than to describe.

Adds a small mark after a listing title that reveals a short summary when you hover it.

Where that summary comes from. Excerpt, Post Subtitle, Summary (TL;DR), or AI Generated. The AI option can be picked only while the AI Blog integration is active.

Which saved recipe writes the summary, and whether a new pass only fills empty summaries or rewrites them. Only shown for the AI source.

How much of the summary the tooltip shows, counted in words or characters.

Adds an ellipsis when the summary was trimmed.

The hover summary needs Tooltips switched on, in VerbaTheme OptionsGeneralSite. With tooltips off, the mark has nothing to open.

#Post visibility

Shows drafts and pending posts in listings while you are signed in.

Useful while you are preparing a batch of material: the page looks the way it will look after publishing, without publishing anything. Visitors never see these. The check is on your login, so a logged-out reader gets the ordinary published list.

#Authors

Adds a quiet note after a guest writer's name.

This group only appears when the co-authors integration is active, since that integration is what knows who is a guest. See Co-authors and guest authors.

#Status badges

The word on posts you pinned to the top of the blog.

The word on posts that ask for a password before they open.

#AI writing

With the AI Blog integration active, an AI Writing group appears. It picks the recipe that writes each of four post fields (subtitle, excerpt, Summary (TL;DR), and key points), how much existing text a pass may overwrite, and how AI-written blocks are labeled, with the wording of those labels at the bottom. Nothing is written until you set a schedule or run it on the AI Blog page. The whole workflow is in AI Blog integration.

#The two global blocks

The same page carries two more tabs, each for a block that floats over the site rather than sitting in the layout:

Before You Go: a recommended post shown when a visitor is about to leave. See Before you go.
Floating Card: a post card that stays on screen while somebody reads. See Floating card.

Use one of the two on a page, not both.

#Questions

Where do I choose which posts appear in a list?

In the list itself. Every listing carries its own query settings: source, count, order, and filters. See Listing settings and query.

The hover summary shows nothing

The source field is probably empty for that post. If the source is the excerpt and the post has none, there is nothing to show. Either write excerpts or switch the source to something the posts actually have.

Do drafts in listings hurt my SEO?

No. Search engine crawlers are not signed in, so they see the published list like any other visitor.

Last updated 1 Oct 2026

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