Title: Blocks Issues
Last modified: May 1, 2026

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# Blocks Issues

 *  [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * (@oscarguy)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocks-issues-2/)
 * I have several issues that I can’t seem to find documentation on how to handle
   them.
   1) On the Latest Posts Block. I’ve settled on not overlaying the post title
   onto the featured image as I cannot seem to find a way to do that. What I’m now
   trying to figure out is how to prevent the title from rolling to the next line.
   It’s changing the height of the row so that it’s not the same height as the post
   next to it in the row.2) I’m using a Query Loop block for the main portion of
   the page, but there doesn’t appear to be a way to add a next post/previous post
   reference to it. I’ve tried adding the Next Post Block and Previous Post Block,
   but neither are showing up on the live version.
 * 3) I want to change the height of the Search Block, but I can’t find a way to
   limit that height, so it feels rather bulky.
   4) With screen resizing (not for
   mobile/tablets, but for different monitor widths), I want to keep the five segments
   at the top (the large block on the left and the four smaller blocks on the right)
   proportional to one another so that they always fill the space to make it looks
   the same regardless of width. Right now, when I have the browser at full size,
   it looks perfect, but if I decrease the browser so it’s only half my screen size,
   then the five blocks look uneven and imbalanced. I hope this makes sense as I’m
   not sure how to explain it otherwise.Test site is: _[ redundant link deleted ]_.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fblocks-issues-2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Andrew Serong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewserong/)
 * (@andrewserong)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocks-issues-2/#post-16728093)
 * Hi there, this might not answer all of your questions, but hopefully could help
   with a couple of them:
 * 1. I don’t believe there’s currently a way to prevent long titles from wrapping.
   In this case, would you ideally like to have the title be truncated (e.g. shortened,
   and then followed by `...`) if the title doesn’t fit on a single row? That could
   be a good enhancement idea, possibly for Typography controls.
 * 2. Within the Query Loop block, to add pagination, try using the [Pagination block](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/pagination-block/),
   this should then render the next / prev and pagination buttons if there are enough
   posts in the current query to trigger them to display.
 * 3. The Search block currently doesn’t have height or padding controls. However,
   it’s possible to slightly adjust the height by changing either the line height
   or font-size typography controls.
 * 4. From a quick look at the site, it appears that the slider on the left-hand
   side is from a plugin, so I’m not too sure how flexible it might be in terms 
   of sizing. However, something to try out could be to have a play with the [Row Block](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/row-block/)
   as a container instead of Columns, to see if that gives any more flexibility 
   to the layout. Blocks that are direct children of a Row block have some further
   dimensions controls available for adjusting width.
 *  Thread Starter [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * (@oscarguy)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocks-issues-2/#post-16731252)
 * Thanks for the reply.
   1. I think truncating could work. It would certainly be
   preferable to what it’s doing.2. Pagination is indeed what I needed.3. Seems 
   like the search block having more adjustable dimensions might be a good improvement
   to it. I wonder if there are any search bar plugins that might serve as a good
   replacement.4. Can you convert a column to a row? Or can I add a row block around
   the current column block? Not sure how friendly the blocks are to adding higher
   level nesting instead of going deeper with each block.As to the slider plugin,
   I think I have it set for variable size, but I don’t think the latest post blocks
   are as flexible. Part of that may be the variable nature of the title line, so
   fixing that might also fix the issue, I don’t know for sure.
 *  Thread Starter [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * (@oscarguy)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocks-issues-2/#post-16731256)
 * Took the columns and moved them into a row block and unfortunately, that didn’t
   fix that issue.

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 * Last reply from: [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocks-issues-2/#post-16731256)
 * Status: not resolved

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