## Set up the post page from scratch Product: Verba - Modern Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme URL: https://hub.jkdevstudio.com/docs/verba/tutorials/tut-single-setup Updated: 2026-09-22 Summary: Post settings sit on three levels that override each other. Learn the ladder, so you stop changing global settings to fix one article. Availability: Pro only. Post settings live on three different levels, and most confusion with the post page is looking for a control on the wrong one. The classic symptom: editing global settings to change one article. This page is a router rather than a reference. Each block points you to the page that covers it. ## The ladder Hold on to this and the rest follows: 1. **The global template**: how all posts look. 2. **The post content**: what is written in it and with which blocks. 3. **This post fields**: what makes it different from the others. The overriding rule in one sentence: a lower level beats a higher one, which is exactly why a single exception should never be fixed globally. Entry points: Writing a post in Verba and Post header styles. ## Level 1: the global template Four ways, the same fork as with archives: native through the Customizer, advanced through Theme Options, a block pattern, or an Elementor template. The same rule for choosing as with archives: take the highest level that solves your problem. If the advanced settings cover it, do not build a template. The service blocks under the content belong to this level too: Content zones and insertions, Related posts and read also, Sharing, and The share block in the post footer. ## Level 2: the post content **The post format** is the first thing to understand and the most commonly skipped. It controls how the post appears in listings and in its header: gallery, video, audio, quote. See Post formats.
Set the format before you write, not after. Changing it later takes over the post media, and part of the work gets done twice.
Verba blocks inside the text: see Registered blocks. ## Level 3: the editorial fields on this post This is what separates Verba from an ordinary theme, and where most people arrive asking "where do I turn that on." The entry point is Post fields. **Reading aids**: Reading aids, TL;DR, Key points, Table of contents, Reading bar, Summarize with AI, and Continuous reading. **Editorial credibility**: Sources and citations, the block under the article listing what it is built on, with quotes from specific people. **Commercial transparency**: the sponsored mark and the brand details that go with it. One honest statement about it: the label is a requirement of an honest blog rather than a decoration, and it is deliberately visible. **Local appearance overrides**: Object-level settings, for when one post has to look different from the rest. ## Example: a long read A long read has no mechanism of its own. It is this same post page with the reading aids turned on. The recipe is four lines: a table of contents from the headings, the reading bar with progress, a TL;DR or key points at the top, and sources at the bottom. Continuous reading if you want it.
Do not turn everything on at once. On a 600-word piece, a table of contents and a TL;DR read as noise, and they make a short article look padded.
## Check the result - [ ] At least two posts of different formats: one plain text, one with media - [ ] The post in a listing as well as on its own page, since the format affects both The most common mistake is configuring the template on a text post and never noticing that a gallery post looks different. Success looks like this: every post is the same where it should be the same, and the exceptions were made with that post fields rather than with global settings.