Post archive is a page that lists posts grouped by criteria:

• date
• author
• post type (Quiz, Poll, Reaction, etc)
• taxonomy (Category, Tag, Snax Format, etc)

Sections

It’s built with 3 main sections (highlighted on the screen below):

1. Header with Filters
2. Featured Entries
3. Main Post List

Settings

All archive-related settings (template, elements visibility, pagination, etc) can be set individually for an archive page or base on global setup. Read more

All archive pages are controlled by the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Posts > Archive settings.

The settings are divided into sections:

• Header
• Featured Entries
• Main Collection

Please refer to the respective sections above for detailed list of available options for each section.

Individual Settings

For a category/tag archive page, you can override the global setup via
WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories > A category > Edit page for categories and
WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories > A tag > Edit page for tags.

Common settings for all archive page are located under the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Posts > Archive > Header section.

You can adjust there:

• Composition
• Filters, if applicable
• Background colors
• Elements visibility

Category/Tag Settings

In addition to the general settings, for a category/tag you can set:

• Icon. If a category is used inside Mega Menu. Check the Categories type.
• Image. If a category is listed via shortcode. Check the Categories type.
• Text Color
• Background Image

All options for a category/post can be found under the WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories/Tags > A category/A tag > Edit page.

Compositions

You can choose from 3 types of header:

• Center aligned

• Left aligned

• Center aligned with top/botom space. Ideal for setting a background

Filters

Available filters, where applicable, are:

• Latest. Default
• Oldest
• Most discussed
• Most viewed. Requires WordPress Popular Posts plugin to work
• Most voted. Requires Snax plugin to work

You can change a default filter in WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Posts > Archive > Header.

General Settings

To adjust the Featured Entries look on all archive pages, please use the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Posts > Archive > Featured Entries section.

You can there:

• Disable that section as it’s optional
• Change its type to Recent, Most Viewed or Most Shared
• Change or hide the title
• Change the template
• Adjust time range for displayed posts
• Hide elements visible on a single post
• Show/Hide the Call to Action button

Tag/Category Settings

Most of the General Settings can be overridden for a category / tag. To do so, please go to the WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories / Tags / A category / A tag > Edit page > Featured Entries section.

General Settings

To adjust the Main Collection look on all archive pages, please use the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Posts > Archive > Main Collection section.

You can there:

• Change or hide the title
• Change the template
• Replace posts featured images with embeds (only for Stream template)
• Set number of entries per page
• Choose a type of the pagination
  • Load More
  • Infinite Scroll
  • Infinite Scroll (first load via click)
  • Prev/Next Pages
• Hide elements visible on a single post
• Show/Hide the Call to Action button
• Inject a newsletter into posts feed
• Inject an ad into posts feed
• Inject a product into posts feed

Tag/Category Settings

Most of the General Settings can be overridden for a category / tag. To do so, please go to the WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories / Tags / A category / A tag > Edit page > Main Collection section.

Auto-Injection

Auto-injection gives you the option to blend your regular posts with ads, newsletters, or products. These “special” items are to encourage your users to action, in an unobtrusive way.

Auto-Injection Recommended Setup

For each item type you have to choose where to place the first item (Inject at position field) and after how many items repeat injection (Repeat after each X positions field, leave empty to not repeat). Please don’t set up repetitions to eg. 1. This can break counters and end up with unexpected behaviors. Best if you inject each type just once on a page. You don’t want to distract your users with so many “no post” items.

Example

• Newsletter – inject at position 2, repeat 11 (if you have 12 items per page, 11 value will keep injection in the same position on all next pages)
• Ad – inject at position 5, repeat 11
• Product – inject at position 8, repeat 11

Auto-Injected Newsletter

To use this option, you need a plugin that handles the newsletter subscription process for you. We recommend the MailChimp for WordPress plugin. After theme activation, you should be asked to install it or you can do that later, manually via the WordPress Admin › Appearance › Install Plugins page.

Read more about the plugin integration.

Auto-Injected Ad

To use this option you need a plugin for ads. We recommend the AdAce plugin.
After theme activation, you should be asked to install it or you can do that later, manually via the WP Dashboard › Appearance › Install Plugins page.

Auto-Injected Product

To use this option you need a plugin for products. We recommend the WooCommerce plugin. After activating the plugin, set up your products and fill the Inject products from category field to inject only products from selected categories into your home page posts collection. Choose the “none” option to get recent products.

How Does It Work?

While scrolling a list of posts, each video that enters visible viewport starts playing.
When the video will go out of the viewport, it stops. Scroll back to that video to resume playing. For more convenience, all videos start playing muted.

Enable Autoplay

To autoplay videos in stream collections, please:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize panel
2. Open to the Posts > General section
3. Check the Autoplay videos in Stream collections option

Supported Media

Autoplay supports:

• Embedded videos (like YouTube, Vimeo or Dailymotion)
• Self-hosted videos (like MP4)
• GIF animations

Works With Lazy Load

Autoplay works with lazy loaded videos. Besides better user experience you gain also better performance. Save bandwidth by loading only videos that users can really see.

GIF Player

GIF animations work like other videos. They can be played/stopped automatically when entering/leaving viewport. But as GIFs have no video controls (like Play | Pause | Stop), you can stop/play it by clicking on them.

To disable the GIF Player, please do as follows:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize panel
2. Open to the Posts > General section
3. Uncheck the Use GIF player option

What Is It For?

Normally when a user wants to view a post, the only way to do that is to click a post title, featured image, or read more link (if available).
Posts like quizzes or polls that should encourage users to take action are lost among other, regular posts. This is when the Call to Action comes into play. The CTA is for hiding irrelevant buttons, making those more attractive exposed (screen below).

Supported Formats

The Call to Action buttons can be divided into following formats:

• Read More – for all regular posts
• View Gallery – for “Gallery” post formats (both Snax galleries and WordPress “Gallery” formats)
• Play the quiz – for Snax quizzes
• Take the poll – for Snax polls
• Add to list – for Snax open lists

Where Applicable?

The Call to Action buttons can be used on the following post collections:

• Home Featured Entries
• Home Main Collection
• Archive Featured Entries
• Archive Main Collection
• Single Post “You May Also Like” Collection
• Single Post “More From” Collection
• Single Post “Don’t Miss” Collection

and for the Bimber Posts builder element.

Configuration

Let’s set up the Home Featured Entries collection (screen above) as an example. We have 3 posts there, two regular posts, and one quiz. We want to show only the Play the quiz button. To do that, please do as follows:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard > Appearance › Customize
2. Choose the Home panel
3. Next, choose the Featured Entries panel
4. Scroll down to the the Hide Elements section (screen below)
5. From the Hide Elements section, uncheck the Call to Action box. At this point, all types of CTA buttons will be visible
6. From the Call to Action – Hide Buttons section, check the Read More box. That way, we will hide the CTA button for regular posts

Change Labels

Button labels can be changed using the translation mechanism. Before starting,
please make sure you’re looking for a label in the right context (theme or plugin). Below the labels with the context they belong to.

• Read More – Bimber theme
• View Gallery – Bimber theme
• Play the quiz – Snax plugin
• Take the poll – Snax plugin
• Add to list – Snax plugin

Setup

To define the Excerpt length, please do as follows:

1. Go to the WP Dashboard > Appearance › Customize panel
2. Switch to the Posts › General section
3. Set the value for the Excerpt Length (in words)

How To Enable?

To enable the infinite loading for next posts, please do as follows:

• Go to the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize page
• Switch to the Posts > Archive panel
• Scroll to the Main Collection section
• Set the pagination to Infinite Scroll or Infinite Scroll (First load via click)

How To Enable?

To allow embeds loading on posts archive page, please do as follows:

• Go to the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customize page
• Switch to the Posts > Archive panel
• Scroll to the Main Collection section
• Enable the option Inject embeds into featured media