Make The Blog Layout Into A List
We have an exciting series on the Divi Blog module, and this will be a great addition. This is a quick CSS code snippet that changes the Divi blog module into a nice list with the image on the side and the details on the other side. I’ll show you how to have the image on the left, or on the right. I’m really excited about this, because it’s so quick and easy even for beginners!
Make The Divi Blog Module Image On The Left And Details On The Right
Step #1: Set The Blog Module To Fullwidth Layout
Go the Blog Module settings to the Design tab and set the Layout to Fullwidth. Don’t worry if this looks wrong. We need to set it this way to make the next step much easier. If we kept it as a grid layout, it would be much harder to achieve the desired layout.
Step #2: Set The Image and Details Width With CSS
Basically, we are telling the image to be only 30% wide. Then we tell the title, meta, and excerpt to be 70% wide. By adding a float left on them, it makes them stack up beside each other. This is better than some of the other similar tutorials because it keeps all the text on the side instead of wrapping around the image.
If you are using our free Divi child theme, place this snippet into the style.css file. Otherwise, place this in your Divi>Theme Options>Custom CSS code box. If you need help, check out our complete guide on Where To Add Custom Code In Divi.
/*add media query so changes only affect tablet and desktop*/
@media (min-width: 767px) {
/*set the image width*/
.entry-featured-image-url {
width: 30%;
float: left;
margin-bottom: 0!important;
}
/*set the details width*/
.entry-title,
.post-meta,
.post-content {
width: 70%;
float: left;
padding-left: 30px;
}
}There you go! You now can adjust the widths if you want, just make sure the percentages equal 100%.
Add Some Fancy Styling
While we are here, let’s add some little touches that will make a huge impact. In the follow snippet, we are going to style each one of the events by adding spacing around them, a border radius, and a box shadow.
/*style the individual posts*/
.et_pb_post {
box-shadow: 0px 2px 80px 0px rgba(160,190,212,0.22);
border-radius: 6px;
padding: 60px;
}
Much better, right? Feel free to play around with this, and be on the lookout for more tutorials about the Divi blog module!
Make The Images Square
You may have seen our series on cropping Divi images to a certain aspect ratio. Those were so fun, and we wanted to show you how to do that here as well. So let’s make the blog image square, even if it isn’t when you upload it.
First of all, add “padding-top: 30%” to the first snippet above. That will make the height the same as the 30% width that we designated. Note that if you changed that number to something else, you will also have to make this number match.
Add the following snippet to your code in the Divi Theme Options.
/*blog image aspect ratio square 1:1*/
.entry-featured-image-url {
padding-top: 30%;
display: block;
}
.entry-featured-image-url img {
position: absolute;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
object-fit: cover;
}
Much better, right? Feel free to play around with this, and be on the lookout for more tutorials about the Divi blog module!
Make The Divi Blog Module Image On The Right And Details On The Left
So if you want, you can use the same snippet as above and just change one thing. Instead of saying to float left, just say float right!
I’m not going to provide this snippet, because you should learn to edit CSS on your own! You can do it! 🙂
Hi Nelson
Great Tutorials !
How would you target this at a specific blog module – (I’ve a couple of different blog mods spread across my site 🙂
Got as far as understanding that I need to use a seperate CSS class but how would this show in the code – know its #cssclassname but not sure exactly where it needs to go 🙂
Thanks again 🙂
Hi Rach,
Sure, so any time I have a snippet that you want to be specific, just add a custom class to the beginning and then add that class in the module Advance tab in the CSS Class input field (don’t use the period at the beginning here, only in the snippet) For this one you will need to add your class in front ever each selector.
Ah thanks Nelson, It was the adding it before every seperate selector that threw me 🙂
Much appreciated 🙂
Since you don’t cover mobile in this tut how would I get the same exact layout on mobile? The images are not square? Also one more thing that could make this better is customizing the read more button on this module. Thanks I totally enjoy your tutorials.
Hi RudyGee,
I do have a tutorial on customizing the read more button, be sure to be checking our blog as this has been out many months.
To make this work on mobile, simply remove the media query!
This method is the sort of thing I’ve been looking for and the code seems to have the desired effect, but changing the main elements color changes the entire module including the spaces in between the blog posts. Is there any way to have each Blog post have a background color while still leaving the spaces in between the blank?
Hi Spence,
The .et_pb_post would work perfeclty for adding a background color to individual posts.
Hi Nelson,
Can you please make a tutorial on how to make the Divi shop module (when using woo-commerce) into list view.
Thanks
Thanks Dom, that’s a good idea!
Thank you, that was a great tutorial I’ve been looking for since a while. 🙂 Is there any chance to change the position of the images from left to right than right to left in every row within the blog module?
Hi Ada,
Yes, I mention that in the post at the bottom.
Thank you! 🙂 That makes all images left or all images right, if I get you right. 🙂
What I thought was, that on one post the image is left, than the next one right, than the next one left again and so on. 🙂 That would be something really eye catching.
I know it could be done by making separate post modules and making excerpts, but automated… you’d be my hero. 😀
Hi Nelson, thanks for the tutorial! And not only this one 😉
How can I reduce vertical distance between list items?
Hi Rogier,
Sure, you should be able to reduce (override with important) the margin bottom on each of the .et_pb_post.
If the post title is longer and takes two rows for example, what happens with the excerpt? Does the CSS code takes care about this? Because if you have a fixed word count defined in DIVI, the exerpt will just go out of this “imaginary” box shape. Please let me know.
Hi Milan,
Can you show me a link? It should just flow…
Hi Nelson. So, here is the situation: I copy pasted your CSS code in the Custom CSS section on Page Settings here https://www.howtodigitalstuff.com/guides/ (it is live now). What I am concerned is that the featured image is not aligned on the bottom with the post excerpt. What I would like to achieve is: the post title to be aligned with the top of the image, and the bottom of the image to be aligned with the last sentence of the post excerpt – so it would be visually appealing. If you go to the home page of my blog you… Read more »
Hi Nelson, really great tutorial just what I was looking for, however I notice its thrown the dynamic headings I have on some of the posts I have and created a wide border around full page. Any idea how I could override this on these pages. An example of this would be at
http://dajocreativedev.com/sva/lot-15-buchley-garage-balmuildy-road-bishopbriggs-g64-3qn/
cheers Dave
Hi Dave,
I’m not sure what you mean. I don’t see a list layout on your link, and I don’t see any issues. Let me know.
No worries Nelson, I achieved same idea with a plugin for now, but will keep the snippet for the future. Thanks again Dave
Great tutorial sir
Thank you very much!
I would admit that you save my hours of thinking and finalizing this type of layout. Thanks
Hi Ahmed, that is great to hear! Thanks for sharing!