Two Customizer panels control how your content pages are laid out: Posts & Archives and Pages. Posts & Archives covers your blog feed, category and tag archives, and individual post pages. Pages covers your static WordPress pages, including any pages created by Paid Memberships Pro such as your Account, Checkout, and Membership Levels pages.

You can find these settings under Appearance > Customize > Posts & Archives and Appearance > Customize > Pages.

Posts & Archives

Archive Layout

The settings under Appearance > Customize > Posts & Archives control how posts appear on your blog feed and archive pages (category pages, tag pages, date archives, and author archives). This does not affect individual post pages.

• Show Full Post Content: Displays the complete text of each post on archive pages. Visitors do not need to click through to read a post. Works well for sites with short posts or when you want to surface your full content immediately.
• Show Post Excerpts: Displays a short preview of each post with a “Read More” link. The excerpt is either the manually written excerpt from the post editor, the text before a More block if you have added one, or an automatically generated snippet if neither is set.
• Show Posts in a Grid (sidebar hidden): Arranges posts in a grid of cards rather than a stacked list. The sidebar is hidden automatically when this option is selected.

The default is “Show Full Post Content”.

Sidebar Location

Controls where the sidebar appears on your blog feed, archive pages, and individual post pages.

• Right Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the right of the main content. This is the default.
• Left Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the left of the main content.
• No Sidebar: The sidebar is hidden. The main content expands to fill the available width.

Columns Ratio

Controls how the available width is divided between the main content area and the sidebar. This setting only appears when Sidebar Location is set to “Right Sidebar” or “Left Sidebar”.

The two numbers represent the content column width and the sidebar column width out of a 12-unit grid. For example, “8×4” gives the content 8 units and the sidebar 4 units. “9×3” makes the sidebar narrower. “6×6” splits the space evenly.

The default is “8×4”.

Show Prev/Next on Single Posts

When checked, previous and next post links appear at the bottom of each individual post page, so readers can move through your content in sequence. This does not affect archive pages.

This is checked by default.

Show Author Block on Posts

When checked, a block appears at the bottom of each individual post showing the post author’s display name, avatar, and biographical information. The biographical info comes from Users > Your Profile > Biographical Info in the WordPress admin.

This is unchecked by default.

Featured Images

Controls whether and how featured images appear in your blog feed and archive listings. This does not affect the featured image on individual post pages.

• Do Not Show Featured Images: Featured images are not displayed in the listing. This is the default.
• Show Banner Only: Displays the banner image (a secondary image field added by Memberlite) in the listing.
• Show Thumbnail Only: Displays the featured image as a thumbnail in the listing.
• Show Block Image In Excerpt: When Archive Layout is set to “Show Post Excerpts”, the featured image is inserted below the excerpt text.

Post Entry Meta (before) and Post Entry Meta (after)

These two text fields control the lines of meta information that appear above and below post content on archive pages and individual post pages.

• Post Entry Meta (before): Appears above the post content. The default text is Posted on {post_date} by {post_author_posts_link}.
• Post Entry Meta (after): Appears below the post content. The default text is This entry was posted in {post_categories} and tagged {post_tags}. Bookmark the {post_permalink}.

You can edit these fields to change the wording or remove information entirely. Clear the field and save to remove the meta line from your posts.

Both fields support the following tags, which Memberlite replaces with live post data:

Tag	What It Outputs
{post_author}	The author’s display name
{post_author_posts_link}	The author’s display name, linked to their archive
{post_categories}	A comma-separated list of the post’s categories
{post_comments}	A link showing the comment count
{post_date}	The date the post was published
{post_permalink}	A “permalink” link to the post
{post_tags}	A comma-separated list of the post’s tags
{post_time}	The time the post was published
{post_title}	The post title

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Pages

The settings under Appearance > Customize > Pages control sidebar layout for your static WordPress pages. This includes pages you create yourself and any pages generated by Paid Memberships Pro.

Sidebar Location

• Right Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the right of the main content. This is the default.
• Left Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the left of the main content.
• No Sidebar: The sidebar is hidden and the content expands to fill the full width. This is applied automatically to pages using the Full Width or Fluid Width page templates, regardless of this setting.

Columns Ratio

Controls the content-to-sidebar width split on pages with a sidebar, using the same 12-unit grid as Posts & Archives. The default is “8×4”.

Show Prev/Next on Single Pages

When checked, previous and next page links appear at the bottom of each page. This is checked by default. Most sites turn this off, since page-to-page navigation is rarely useful for static content pages.