The Seasonal Content block lets you control a block’s visibility with a start and end date.

You can use our Seasonal Content pattern to automatically insert 4 seasonal content blocks pre-configured for the four seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter) and with a post listing block in each.

After inserting it, you should configure the Post Listing block. You’ll either want to display recent/popular posts in a seasonal category, OR you can set the order to “Manual” and manually select the seasonal posts.

If you plan to use this in the sidebar, you should change the layout to one of the sidebar layouts (ex: Sidebar 4up Grid).

Add the pattern to your site

  1. Click this link, then in your browser go to File > Save Page As. It should download to your computer as seasonal-content.json.
  2. In the backend of your WordPress site, go to Appearance > Design > Patterns (or Appearance > Patterns for older versions of WordPress).
  3. Click the “Add Pattern” button in the top right, then “Import pattern from JSON”
  4. Select the seasonal-content.json file you just downloaded.

If you’d prefer us to install the pattern for you, please email us at [email protected] and we can complete this as a $100 Quick Fix.

Use the pattern

  1. In the content area, type /seasonal and select the Seasonal Content pattern, which has a unique icon. The Seasonal Content block has the CultivateWP icon.
  2. This will add 4 Seasonal Content blocks to your post pre-configured for the dates of Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. Inside each one will be a post listing block.
  3. Configure each post listing block:
    • Limit to a category if you have seasonal categories (ex: “Winter Recipes” category) and sort by Recent or Popular
    • Alternatively, set the order to “Manual” and manually select the seasonal recipes to feature.
    • Select your desired layout. If you’re using this in the Sidebar, please select one of the Sidebar layouts.