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Single post settings

How individual blog posts are laid out and which metadata they show. Admin path: Appearance → Customize → Vara SaaS → Single Post Screenshot: Customizer → Vara SaaS → Single Post with the layout dropdown and three toggles

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Settings

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Layout options

Screenshot: the four single post layouts shown side by side
Turning on “Show post meta” is required for the date and author toggles to have any effect. The master switch comes first — with it off, the date and author settings are inert regardless of their own values.

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Metadata controls

Three switches working together.
Controls the whole byline block: author avatar, name, role, publish date, and reading time. If this is off, none of it renders.
The published date within the byline. Requires Show post meta to be on.
The author’s name and avatar. Requires Show post meta to be on. The role beneath the name follows this switch.
Reading time is part of the meta block and does not have its own switch. It is calculated at 200 words per minute.
If a post’s author has no public role label, the theme shows Contributor instead. To display a specific role such as Principal Engineer, set it in the user profile under Users → All Users → Edit → Profile.
Screenshot: the single post byline showing avatar, name, role, date and reading time

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What a single post renders

Top to bottom:
  1. Category pills — with a ”(+N)” overflow control if there are many
  2. The h1 title
  3. The excerpt, if one is set
  4. The byline — avatar, name, role, date, reading time
  5. The featured image
  6. The table of contents — automatic, from your h2 and h3 headings
  7. The content
  8. Tag pills, with the same overflow control
  9. Related reading — up to two posts sharing a category
  10. Comments

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Table of contents

Generated automatically. The theme scans post content for h2 and h3 elements, assigns each a unique slugged ID, injects those IDs into the markup, and builds a linked outline.
Duplicate heading text produces duplicate anchor slugs. The theme de-duplicates by appending a suffix, but distinct headings are cleaner. Long posts also benefit from deliberate hierarchy: an h1 in the title, then h2 sections, then h3 subsections.
Up to two posts sharing at least one category with the current post, excluding itself.

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Category and tag overflow

When a post has more categories or tags than fit, the extras collapse behind a ”(+N)” pill that expands on click or keyboard. The control uses aria-expanded and aria-controls, so it is announced correctly by screen readers.

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Password-protected posts

A password-protected post renders only the title and the password form. Content, featured image, table of contents, tags, related posts, and comments are all suppressed until the post is unlocked. The theme provides its own styled password form.

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Per-post overrides

There are none for single posts — layout is controlled globally here. For pages, the Sidebar Settings box in the page editor provides a per-page sidebar override that defaults to hidden. For posts built with Elementor, the theme steps aside entirely and the builder owns the layout — see Elementor.

Blog and archives

The index, archives, and category filtering.

General settings

Site-wide toggles including the sidebar switch.