blog post widget won’t show whichever post is newest (and only the newest) – have any of you run into this?

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I’ve been trying out the Assembler theme on my site and the Blog Post Widget (and the Blog Post Carousel Widget) both hide whichever post is newest. The Blog Posts added from patterns don’t seem to have this issue. The post (I’ve done a couple) is public, and can be seen from reader. Basically the widget only ever shows the second-newest post and onwards. If I add a new post, the currently-hidden one becomes visible. If I delete that new post, that now-visible one dissapears again.

The new post shows up in the editor view, just not when you open the site normally. And the post shows up if you use “Choose Specific Posts” to add it but then I’d have to manually add every post from now on.

This is all stock wordpress tools/themes, I don’t think I’ve messed with anything, so I’m not sure how to fix this one. Is this a common issue I should just work around, or is there a fix I’m missing?

edit: switching to latest posts throws an error in the editor but does show the newest post, though it doesn’t show pictures and other settings I’d like to include if possible.

Thanks!

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