Listing blocks

Listing blocks show records you manage elsewhere in the admin, such as news, meetings or councillors. You add a record once in its own section and every page with the matching block updates by itself. To place one on a page, see Adding blocks and open the Listings category.

The listing blocks

Block	What it lists	Where you manage the records
Amenities	Published amenities	Content > Amenities
Blog	Published blog posts, or a list of your blogs	Blogs > Blogs and Blog Posts
Business Directory	Published local businesses	Content > Businesses
Calendar	Published events and meetings on a calendar	Content > Events and Parish Council > Meetings
Councillors	Active councillors	Parish Council > Councillors
Document Archive	Files in a Media Library folder and its sub-folders, with filters	Media > Media Library
Document Browser	Documents in one Media Library folder	Media > Media Library
Events	Published events	Content > Events
FAQ	Published questions and answers	Content > FAQs
Grant Schemes	Published grant schemes	Community > Grant Schemes
History	Published history articles	Content > History Items
Local Attractions	Published local attractions	Content > Local Attractions
Meetings	Published meetings	Parish Council > Meetings
Minutes Archive	Minutes of published meetings	Parish Council > Meetings
News	Published news articles	Content > News
Notices	Published notices	Content > Notices
Personnel	Active staff	Parish Council > Personnel
Policies	Published policies	Parish Council > Policies
Reports & Audits	Published reports and audits	Parish Council > Reports & Audits
Resident Issues	Issues reported by residents and marked public	Community > Resident Issues
Services	Published services	Content > Services
Venues	Venues available for booking	Community > Venues

Settings most listing blocks share

Most listing blocks start with the same six settings. Calendar, Document Archive, Document Browser, FAQ and Services have their own instead, described under each block.

Setting	What it does
Custom Heading	The heading above the list. Each block fills in a sensible default, such as "Latest News". The heading also appears in the block's title bar in the editor.
Show Heading	On by default. Turn it off to hide the heading from view. Screen readers still announce it.
Layout	How the records are arranged: Card Grid (3 columns) (the default), Card Grid (2 columns), Card List (single column), Compact List or Timeline. On a phone, grids drop to one column.
Show Images	On by default. Turn it off to hide each record's picture. Only on blocks whose records have pictures.
Limit	The most records to show. Leave it at 0 to show them all.
Show Pagination	Off by default. Turn it on to split a long list into pages. Limit then sets how many appear on each page. Only on blocks that can split their list (see below).

Where a block lets you pin records, pinned ones (Pin to top on the record) come first. The rest follow their display position.

Amenities

Lists your published amenities, pinned ones first, then in display order. It uses the shared settings only. The default heading is "Local Amenities".

Blog

Lists published posts from published blogs, newest first. It can show a list of your blogs instead.

Setting	What it does
Display	Blog Posts (the default) or Blog Directory (list of blogs). The directory shows each published blog. The settings below apply to Blog Posts only, apart from Items Per Page.
Blog	Show posts from one blog. Leave it empty for posts from all published blogs.
Filter by Categories	Show only posts from blogs in the chosen categories. Leave it empty for all.
Show Author	On by default. Shows who wrote each post.
Featured posts only	Off by default. Shows only featured posts in the main list.
Show featured posts sidebar	On by default. Adds a sidebar of up to five featured posts.
Items Per Page	How many per page when Show Pagination is on and Limit is 0. Default 12.

Business Directory

Lists your published businesses, pinned ones first, then in display order and by name. It uses the shared settings only.

Calendar

A month, week or list calendar of your published events and meetings. Visitors can switch views and use the Community Events and Council Meetings toggles to choose what they see.

Setting	What it does
Heading	The heading above the calendar. Default "Calendar".
Show Heading	On by default.
Default View	The view the calendar opens on: Month (the default), Week or List (agenda).
Show Events by default	On by default. Ticks the Community Events toggle when the calendar first loads.
Show Meetings by default	On by default. Ticks the Council Meetings toggle when the calendar first loads.

Councillors

Lists your active councillors, pinned ones first, then in display order. It uses the shared settings only. The default heading is "Our Councillors".

Document Archive

Lists every file in a Media Library folder and all its sub-folders. Each first-level sub-folder becomes its own section, newest uploads first. Files sitting directly in the chosen folder appear above the sections. Visitors can filter by type, year and month, worked out from your folder names.

Setting	What it does
Title	An optional heading above the archive.
Layout	List (one per row) (the default), Card Grid — Small or Card Grid — Large.
Media Library Folder	Required. The folder to list.
Type filter	On by default. Uses the first-level sub-folder names, such as "Agendas" or "Minutes".
Year filter	On by default. Uses sub-folder names that look like a year, such as 2026.
Month filter	Off by default. Uses month folders inside year folders, such as 2026/Jan.

Document Browser

Simple download links to the documents in one Media Library folder. Pictures are left out, and so are sub-folders. A file's Title from the Media Library is used as its link text when it has one.

Setting	What it does
Heading and Show Heading	The heading above the list. Default "Documents", shown.
Media Library Folder	Required. The folder to list.
Columns	2 Columns, 3 Columns (the default) or 4 Columns.
Card Style	Small (compact row) (the default) or Large (centred card).
Sort By	Name (A–Z) (the default), Name (Z–A), Newest first or Oldest first.
Name Style	For files without a Title: As-is (the default), Capitalise Each Word, UPPERCASE or lowercase.
Replace underscores/hyphens with spaces	On by default. Tidies file names for files without a Title.
Show file extension in name	On by default. Adds ".pdf" and so on to the link text for files without a Title.
Show file type	On by default. Shows the file type, such as "PDF", under the name.
Show file size	Off by default.

Events

Lists your published events, soonest first by default. Visitors can switch between Upcoming, Past, Featured and All.

Setting	What it does
Default Filter	Which events show first: Upcoming (the default), Past, Featured or All.
Order by date	Soonest / earliest first (the default) or Latest / most recent first.
Show featured events at the top	Off by default. Featured events appear in a highlighted section above the list and stay in the list too.
Show Calendar Link	On by default. Adds a button to your events calendar.

FAQ

Lists your published questions, grouped by category and in display order. Featured questions appear first.

Setting	What it does
Custom Heading and Show Heading	Default "Frequently Asked Questions", shown.
Layout	Accordion (default) lists every question under its category. Tabs (classic), Tile grid (icon tiles + panel below) and List + panel (side by side) turn each category into a tab that reveals its questions.
List Position and List Width	For List + panel only. Put the list on the Left (the default) or Right, at 25%, 33% (the default), 40% or 50% of the width.
Show Category	All Categories (the default), or one category only.
Show Search Box	On by default. Accordion layout only.
Show Category Filters	On by default. Accordion layout showing all categories only.

Grant Schemes

Lists your published grant schemes in display order, then by name.

Setting	What it does
Split Open / Closed	On by default. Shows open schemes under "Open for Applications" and the rest under "Closed".

History

Lists your published history articles, pinned ones first, then in display order. It uses the shared settings only. The default heading is "Our History".

Local Attractions

Lists your published local attractions, pinned ones first, then in display order.

Setting	What it does
Show Details Excerpt	On by default. Shows a short extract of each attraction's details.
Show Attachment Count	On by default. Shows how many files are attached.

Meetings

Lists your published meetings. By default it shows upcoming meetings (soonest first) and past meetings (most recent first) as two lists.

Setting	What it does
Items per page	How many per page when Show Pagination is on and Limit is 0. Default 10. With the split on, each list gets its own page controls.
Show Document Links	On by default. Shows links to each meeting's documents.
Split Upcoming / Past	On by default. Turn it off for one list.
Order by meeting date	Only when the split is off: Most recent first (the default) or Earliest first.
Show past meetings	On by default. Turn it off to show only upcoming meetings.
Show year / month filter	On by default.
Show meeting type filter	Off by default.

Minutes Archive

Lists the minutes of your published meetings, newest meeting first, one row per set of minutes. A meeting appears once minutes are attached to it on its edit page. Meetings with no minutes are left out.

Setting	What it does
Items per page	How many per page when Show Pagination is on and Limit is 0. Default 12.
Show search box	On by default. Searches the meeting title and the title of the minutes document.
Show meeting type filter	On by default.
Show year filter	On by default.
Show month filter	On by default.

News

Lists your published news articles, newest first. Visitors can filter by category.

Setting	What it does
Filter by Categories	Show only these categories. Leave it empty for all.
Filter by Tags	Show only articles with these tags. Leave it empty for any tags.
Show Featured Sidebar and Show Featured Articles	Both on by default. Together they add a sidebar of up to five featured articles. Turn either off to remove it.
Items Per Page	How many per page when Show Pagination is on and Limit is 0. Default 12.

Notices

Lists your published notices, newest notice date first.

Setting	What it does
Filter by Category	Show only these notice categories. Leave it empty for every category.
Show Category Badge	On by default.
Show Notice Date	On by default.
Show Details Excerpt	On by default.
Show Attachment Count	On by default.

Personnel

Lists your active staff, pinned ones first, then in display order.

Setting	What it does
Personnel type	Show one type of staff only. Leave it on Show all types for everyone. If you pick a type and keep the default heading "Our Staff", the heading becomes the type's name, such as "Office Staff".

Policies

Lists your published policies, pinned ones first, then in display order and by name. Visitors can filter by category.

Setting	What it does
Layout	Adds three choices to the shared list: Compact Tile, Featured + Grid and Table.
Center card text	Off by default. Card Grid layouts only.
Full-width download button	Off by default. Card Grid layouts only.
Show Category Filters	On by default.

Reports & Audits

Lists your published reports and audits, grouped under category headings by default. Visitors can filter by year and category.

Setting	What it does
Order by	Report date (newest first) (the default), Report date (oldest first), Display order (manual, ascending), Display order (manual, descending), Publication date (newest first) or Publication date (oldest first).
Categories to show	Empty by default, which shows every category. Choose one or more categories to show only their reports. Pick Uncategorised (no category) as well to include reports with no category. The year and category filter buttons then only offer what this block shows.
Show year filter	On by default.
Show category filter	On by default.
Group reports under category headings	On by default. Turn it off for one list in your Order by order.

Resident Issues

Lists issues reported by residents that are marked Publicly Visible, newest first. Visitors can filter by category.

Setting	What it does
Show Map Link	On by default. Adds a View Map button when the issues map is switched on.

Services

Lists your published services as icon tiles, pinned ones first, then in display order.

Setting	What it does
Custom Heading and Show Heading	Default "Services", shown.
Layout	Icon Grid (large icon, big tile) (the default), Compact Icon Row or Horizontal Cards (icon beside text).
Columns (Icon Grid only)	2 columns, 3 columns (the default) or 4 columns.
Show Description	On by default.
Limit	The most services to show. 0 shows them all.

Venues

Lists venues that are Available for Booking, pinned ones first, then in display order and by name. It uses the shared settings only.