Help adjust Kadence WP “Posts Page”

[Randy]

Randy

January 19, 2024 at 10:05 pm

Hello everyone… I am a long-time customer (since the days before subscriptions) and I do love the new Kadence WP theme (free version) and use it almost exclusively for my own development and for friends that I create for. Let me assure you that I have looked through several posts here in this forum and done a fair amount of searching on the web. There seems to be a lot of random info, but nothing to actually help me with my situation. I see lots of comments about using a real block theme, designing my own archive page, etc. However, I really think this is the best place to get sincere help. So…

I want to modify the “posts page,” the one selected / designated in the reading settings. I am using the “Influencer” theme and I have invested too much time to move on to another one at this point. So, since most all of the pages use a custom Gutenberg design structure, I REALLY want to keep that look and feel on the blog page. See these links to view examples. These are on a development site that I am creating for a friend:

Actual Blog Archive -> *Login to see link
The way I want it to look -> *Login to see link

The first one shown is the traditional archive page and styled as best I can with the Customizer… but it is missing important design elements. Ok, the second one was created with the “posts grid block” to get the result I want… EXCEPT, there is no pagination… which is my problem.

Can anyone here help me solve this problem without paying for the PRO version of anything, please? Maybe some of you who are wizards in PHP and WordPress coding can help? I have a fair amount of knowledge on these things, but not enough to spend lots of extra hours of research since I am doing this freely for a friend. Maybe there is a way to insert a bit of code with a functions routine? I have looked at the theme files for Kadence WP and this seems to be a non-standard way of creating it. Don’t hate on me if I am wrong -and- I understand that you are giving it away for free and need to have a way to make money. Yet, it seems that the whole free Influencer theme add-on should be able to match the “look and feel” of the blog page to the other pages.

Thanks for reading through this and please give me some direction that I can do on my own with no PRO purchase involved. Blessings to you all.