Uwawp A full walkthrough of the Customizer options for changing how your Related Posts block looks.
Open Appearance → Customize → Related Posts (or use the quick-link on the plugin’s Dashboard page, which jumps straight into this section). Settings are grouped into six clusters:
Layout arrangement
Choose Row (a horizontal scroll), Grid, List, or Masonry. Grid and List also offer several row-style treatments — boxed cards, divided rows, a numbered list, or a bordered box — along with grid column counts for desktop and mobile separately, border style, drop shadow, and background color.
Elements to show or hide
Toggle the date, author, category, and tag meta fields, the excerpt, a category “eyebrow” label above the title, a numbered ranking badge, and an optional call-to-action button.
Text
Heading style (several decorative treatments, from a plain underline to a filled badge), font choices including curated Google Fonts, title and meta text styling, hover effects on the title link, and excerpt length.
Image
Image position (top, left, or below the text), shape, corner roundness, edge-to-edge bleed, and size.
Icon
An optional icon next to the block’s heading, with a choice between a smart default color or a custom one, and an option to repeat the same icon as a small badge on each card’s image.
Divider
Show or hide divider lines between cards, and set an accent color for them.
Inline Related Post has its own independent styling
If you’re also using inline related posts, it’s a fully separate section in the Customizer with its own settings across the same six clusters — nothing is shared between the two by default. A “Copy settings from” control at the top of each section lets one adopt the other’s entire look in a single click, if you want them to match.
Custom CSS
For anything the controls above don’t cover, a Custom CSS field (its own section in the Customizer) applies after every other setting, so it reliably wins over the plugin’s own styles without needing !important.
If you’d rather start from nothing
A “Disable default styles” checkbox turns off the plugin’s own stylesheet entirely, useful if you’re styling the block completely from your theme or Custom CSS instead.