Dynamic Blog Post Template in GenerateBlocks 2.0 → New for 2025 ← GeneratePress Theme

What You’ll Learn in This Video:
✅ How to design a single blog post template using GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks
✅ Connecting dynamic data (post titles, authors, categories, and featured images)
✅ Using ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) for custom author bios & social links
✅ Implementing a CSS Grid layout for structured content
✅ Adding a sticky call-to-action (CTA) section for better conversions
✅ Creating a custom “More Blog Posts” query while excluding the current post

Why This Matters:
Instead of manually styling each blog post, we'll build a reusable template that automatically applies to all posts on your site. This keeps things consistent, scalable, and easy to manage.

Tools & Resources Mentioned:
🛠 GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks – 🔗 Get GeneratePress
🛠 Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) – 🔗 Learn More
🛠 WS Form for the newsletter signup form – 🔗 Check it Out

If you're building a dynamic, high-performing WordPress blog, this tutorial is for you! 🎯

[TheAdminBar]

Update: I noticed after spending AGES planning, recording, and editing this video that I missed a couple of things...

1. The section that holds all the post content should be switched from <div> to <section> and the wrapper around the post content should have an <article> tag.
2. I forgot to add the background image to the Author Box, but it's the same process as what we did on the CTA box.

Sorry about that — my brain was mush by the time I finished this!

[heathcriswell]

This is fantastic. I'm actually thinking about getting GeneratePress One because of this tutorial.

[rubruiz]

Thanks Kyle, amazing tutorial, as always.

[SparklingINsilencE]

This was a great tutorial, well done !

[FedericoBertaina]

Hi, great tutorial! Could you explain how you set the hero section to full width while keeping the post content narrower? Thanks a lot!

[SPJohnson]

Thanks I learned many things here. One question, why did you choose to create a 3-column grid for your content instead of using the Layout Element to define left and right side bars? Is there a strategy to this?

[ricardobozzi]

Good stuff! I have a question: in the old generateblocks, there was the option to set a background image dynamically from the featured image instead of an image block. I can't find the option anywhere in Generateblocks 2.0. Is it still possible? Sometimes, such as hero images, I'd rather have the image in the css instead of an acual image tag.

[muhammadalnajlat]

Great tutorial and awesome plugin, thank you very much!

The only thing about the dynamism is (for example) in the author box, where we need a condition to completely not render a social icon when its URL is empty! Any way to do that with GenerateBlocks?

[JoelGacho]

Hello sir, can you make a video tutorial on how to create a carousel 3-card post to be placed inside the homepage using generatepress? TIA...