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 🙂