How to Show Full Post or Excerpt in Grid Style in WordPress Using Shapely

Sometimes we really need to do some out-of-the-box kind of thing with our WordPress websites. In this blog I will be showing how you can show the full post or excerpt in the Grid style on your WordPress website.

If you really wanna spice up your blog with some great looking designs then this might be useful for you.

So, let me explain what I'm going to do in order to get this simple grid style posts on the homepage or post pages. I will simply be using a simple WordPress theme which is completely free to use.

After using the theme your complete website layout should look something like this:

Where GRID #1 TO GRID #4 are your blog posts which will look like above image. So, let's get started...

Show Full Post or Excerpt in Grid Style in Your WordPress Website

This is not as difficult as I am making this.

First of all, login into your wp-admin and then install the theme called Shapely from the Appearance > Themes > Add New menu.

After your theme is installed, go to Appearance > Customize and from the left-hand-side menu go go the Blog Settings as shown in the image below.

After you enter in to the Blog Settings menu, now go to Blog Index Settings and then Grid Only in the Blog Layout drop-down menu as in the image below.

And, that's it. You blog will now be showing in the grid style.

I'm sure there must be other themes and plugins which can do this but I found this theme quite responsive and customizable; and that's the main reason why I posted this article.

If you have any questions or suggestions then let me know in the comments.

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