Blog Shortcode
Avada’s blog shortcode is truly amazing. This shortcode allows you to display your blog posts on any page you wish. It can purely be a blog page, or you can integrate it with other page content. Choose all 6 of our blog designs along with a plethora of options like displaying custom categories, hiding meta data, thumbnails, excerpt length, pagination, scrolling and more. This shortcode also allows you to build magazine style layouts, the possibilities are amazing!
Subsong in my Lockdown neighbour
To celebrate our 50th FIREFINCH post, you can read the full Dawn Chorus article here. It's about a very talented friend I met during Lockdown. This post is all about the audio, so check out the Podcast version or follow along on the individual play bars. Enjoy!
The FIREFINCH treasure hunt
WARNING: This is tough! But if you love puzzles, codes and riddles, check out the seven-step FIREFINCH treasure hunt! Be careful not to reveal the answers as you scroll down!
This Blog Shortcode Is Truly Amazing
Subsong in my Lockdown neighbour
To celebrate our 50th FIREFINCH post, you can read the full Dawn Chorus article here. It's about a very talented friend I met during Lockdown. This post is all about the audio, so check out the Podcast version or follow along on the individual play bars. Enjoy!
The FIREFINCH treasure hunt
WARNING: This is tough! But if you love puzzles, codes and riddles, check out the seven-step FIREFINCH treasure hunt! Be careful not to reveal the answers as you scroll down!
Celebrating 50 articles on FIREFINCH!
Since our app FIREFINCH launched in Sep 2022, we've posted 50 Dawn Chorus articles. By myself and lots of other expert birders. Check out some of my favourites here!
Choose From 6 Different Design Options
Each blog design can be used with a sidebar or without. Each instance has its own set of options for customization.
Blog Shortcode Give You Unlimited Blog Pages
Unlimited Use
Subsong in my Lockdown neighbour
To celebrate our 50th FIREFINCH post, you can read the full Dawn Chorus article here. It's about a very talented friend I met during Lockdown. This post is all about the audio, so check out the Podcast version or follow along on the individual play bars. Enjoy!
Completely Loaded With Options For Customization!

Number Of Posts
This option allows you to control the number of posts that will display with the blog shortcode.

Categories
This option allows you to choose which category or categroies will display with the blog shortcode.

Exclude Categories
This option allows you to easily exclude one or more categories. Perfect for those who have many.

Post Excerpt
This option allows you to show a post excerpt or the full content of each blog post.

Post Thumbnail
This option allows you to show or hide the blog post image that dispalys on each of your posts.

Type of Scroll
This option allows you to choose infinite scroll, or classic numerical pagination for your posts.

Pagination Type
This option allows you to choose if pagination will display for navigating through posts.

Post Title
This option allows you to show or hide the blog post title that dispalys on each of your posts.

Strip HTML
This option allows you to strip HTML from the post, which is perfect for when using excerpts.
Complete Control Over Meta Deta Display

Each blog design offers meta data that displays with the post. The meta data includes the author name, date, post categories, post tags, read more link, comment icon and number of comments. Our expansive shortcode options give you full control to show or hide each of these meta data elements individually or collectively.
- Show or hide all meta info with one easyoption.
- Show or hide the author of the post.
- Show or hide the individual post categories.
- Show or hide the comment icon and number.
- Show or hide the date of the post.
- Show or hide the Read More link with icon arrow.
- Show or hide the tags of the post.
Blog Grid Layout Column Options!
The grid design allows you to choose the column width giving you more control over the layout. Choose between 2, 3 or 4 columns and the design will automatically adapt to fill the area giving you a beautiful design.
Subsong in my Lockdown neighbour
To celebrate our 50th FIREFINCH post, you can read the full Dawn Chorus article here. It's about a very talented friend I met during Lockdown. This post is all about the audio, so check out the Podcast version or follow along on the individual play bars. Enjoy!
The FIREFINCH treasure hunt
WARNING: This is tough! But if you love puzzles, codes and riddles, check out the seven-step FIREFINCH treasure hunt! Be careful not to reveal the answers as you scroll down!
Celebrating 50 articles on FIREFINCH!
Since our app FIREFINCH launched in Sep 2022, we've posted 50 Dawn Chorus articles. By myself and lots of other expert birders. Check out some of my favourites here!
New birds in Southern Africa: A tale of two lists
How many new species have been added to our Southern African list in the last few decades? The first time I counted up my lifelist as a young kid, it was 73 species...out of a possible 919 on the list. Today our Southern African list is on 978 species. In the 36 years I've been crawling/walking/running around in search of birds (and the publication of Roberts V) 100 species have been added. Here they are!