Multiple ‘blog posts’ blocks per page

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  alexistantet · Member · Jan 28, 2020 at 10:29 pm

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  Hi, is there a way to have multiple ‘blog posts’ blocks per page to associate them with different categories? When I try to do so, I cannot choose ‘blog posts’ for the second block. I website is hosted by wordpress without a plan.

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jan 29, 2020 at 9:23 am

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  Hi there!

  You can only add one Blog Posts block, the second one would display exactly the same.

  If you’d like to display blog posts from different categories on certain pages, I’d suggest creating Category Pages instead.

  Here’s how it works:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=category+page

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  alexistantet · Member · Jan 29, 2020 at 9:26 am

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  Thanks for the quick reply.

  Yes, that’s what I am using but the effect is not the same.

  Is there a fundamental reason for having multiple blog block being impossible?

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Jan 29, 2020 at 11:19 am

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  Ah, I see.

  Adding the block multiple times has been deactivated for now as there are ongoing works on improving this block and actually allowing to display different sets of posts.
  So, while our developers are working on a fix, maybe you can try to use the [display-posts] shortcode.

  This would allow you to display posts from different categories and customize the number of the posts, the information that’s displayed, etc. Full instructions can be found here:

  Display Posts Shortcode