I would like a homepage that shows a few (full) blog posts in a left column with Post Title, metadata, then content.
First trouble I ran into was using Post Title which shows the page title (“Home”). In my searching about this, it appears that’s the way it works.
Can someone guide me to best practices/tutorials to achieve this blog-centric layout using Bricks? Thx in advance. I’m new here and new to Bricks, limited webdev experience.
Will there also be a separate Blog/News Page that has posts listing in the site?
Yes, eventually I’ll make an “archive” page
You need to make a query loop, then just design your blog post “cards” within the loop.
Check out this: https://academy.bricksbuilder.io/article/query-loop/
You’ll have to make sure you are only showing x number of posts and in the loop you will need to use the ‘post_content’ to show the entire content of the post.
Just as a side note, it is worth spending some time learning query loops as they are super useful and a powerful feature of Bricks. Also, if you are new to web dev, I highly recommend you learn pure HTML and CSS (especially flexbox and grid) as this will help you tremendously in getting the most out of a page builder, especially Bricks.
Hope that helps