Modify how posts appear on "Latest Posts" page in Pilcrow (blog not website)

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  brokeneye3 · Member · Oct 9, 2014 at 10:28 pm

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  My blog is running Pilcrow, and in the way it’s currently set up, posts appear like this on the “Latest Posts” page.

  I want to keep the ability to have them appear like that, but also gain the ability to have them appear as something a bit more like this and I want the ability to choose between the two styles on an article by article basis. Is this possible?

  I’ve already installed Custom Design

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 3:28 am

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  Hi there, that is not something that can be easily done with CSS. It would require you to write individual CSS rules using the post ID for each post you wanted to have displayed differently from the original style. To do this properly would require creation of a new post format which would be done in the theme’s PHP script files, and we cannot edit or change those at WordPress.com.

  Pilcrow supports a number of post formats which can be chosen from within the post editor. You may wish to explore those although there aren’t any formats that match what you are looking for.

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  brokeneye3 · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 3:49 am

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  All the post formats appear to result in the same thing.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 10, 2014 at 5:36 am

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  Aside and Status will not have titles and I think they both hide the meta data (date, etc.).

  What you are wanting really can’t be done here at WordPress.com without a lot of ongoing work with CSS. CSS is a styling document used by the browsers to place and style the elements in a web page. It cannot be used to change or add functionality.

  You can use the Read More tag to shorten post content, and put it right after your inserted image and “Optional Subtitle”, which you could change to an h3 or h4 heading within the editor. The title would still be above the image and subtitle. You would have to write CSS each time to move the title over so that the image could be forced up and to the left of it. You would also need to create a CSS class to move the image up and then assign that CSS class to the image when you created the short-form post.