Items in blog view are staggered

Items in the category view are staggered. The placement seems to vary between refreshes of the same page and in different browsers.
Is this a flexicontent issue and if so, how can this be resolved?
See attached image

Hello

Joomla version and FC version ?

do you use the unmodified blog template or an not modified copy of it by "duplicate" in backend ?

you may post a link to the page

I'm on the most current versions of Joomla v3 and FC
I've hidden a couple of items in the backend template
- blog items -> display parameters
created date/time, revisor name, and show favour are set to hide
No changes to blog category

I'm also seeing an issue with the next page function.
I've tried to set categories to view 10 items per page but, they all show multiple pages as being available and clicking on next page just refreshes the first page.
this category -> http://###thewoodlandsguide.com/things-to-do/winter only has 7 items in it.
this category ->http://###thewoodlandsguide.com/destinations/restaurant-guide has over 300 items.

I have some other questions as well but, am hoping that getting these resolved will also resolve the other issues at the same time.
Thanks!

most current isn't good information ... 3.0.15 , 3.1 RC ?

3.1.0-rc2
PHP Built On Linux res180.servconfig.com 2.6.32-673.8.1.lve1.4.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu May 5 16:06:47 EDT 2016 x86_64
Database Version 5.6.29-log
Database Collation latin1_swedish_ci
Database Connection Collation utf8mb4_unicode_ci
PHP Version 5.5.38
Web Server Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version Joomla! 3.6.2 Stable [ Noether ] 4-August-2016 23:41 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 13.1.0 Stable [ Curiosity ] 24-Apr-2013 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Do you have a link to the page?
Rooney

Hello

i had asked you to post a link to see this

if link should not be public,

then you may send me a PM for this

I did post a link, two of them in fact in message 63776
www.flexicontent.org/forum/61-troublesho...staggered.html#63776

Hello

do you mean you want to place them without gaps as masonry tiles ?

- i did a view "HTML source" in your page i do not see the related JS being loaded

i am guessing you have not enabled the parameter to tile them

Ok, so enabling masonry tiles seems to have resolved the gap issue. Thanks. (Should have tried that.) :whistle:

The other concern is that when attempting to view the next page of articles in a category, the first page is always reloaded. This happens both when clicking a page number or the 'next' button. The icon links appear to be linked to the next page ie: thewoodlandsguide.com/destinations/restaurants?start=22
but the next page does not load.
Probably another setting i've overlooked or maybe set incorrectly.....
The incredible amount of settings/options in FC can be overwhelming...

Also, where do I find the setting to have the first row of items, not have a gap in it?
Can it either be filled with the second item or have the first item be wider or even use it for an advertising space?