• @jackdewey, I’m trying to create a library with two columns, separated vertically by category. To clarify:

    Category1
    Link1 Img | Link1 Name<br>Description | Link2 Img | Link2 Name<br>Description
    Link3 Thumbnail | Link3 Name<br>Description
    Category2
    Link1 Img | Link1 Name<br>Description | Link2 Img | Link2 Name<br>Description
    Link3 Thumbnail | Link3 Name<br>Description

    I found this post:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/thumbnail-generation-3/#post-10657399

    But it seems to address an earlier version. For one thing, the only relevant button I see is ‘Reset current Library’ rather than ‘Reset current library for table layout’. And the Advanced layout is using

    • rather than <tr>. Using these instead, I tried the above instructions, but to no avail.

      Is there some way to accomplish what I’m trying to do? I’m working with Link Library v6.3.5 and WP v5.3.2 .

      Cheers!

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  • Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    Indeed, these instructions are a bit old. Instead of resetting to table layout, you can use the reset current librart button, then go to the Presets tab and select Layout 3. From there, you should be able to follow instructions as before.

    Thread Starter chriskeville

    (@chriskeville)

    Thank you for such a prompt response!

    That worked well, though I used Layout 5. Any thoughts on making the column widths balance, though? See the ISRO entry at the bottom here for an example of what I mean:

    https://steam-space.org/staging/2422/

    Thread Starter chriskeville

    (@chriskeville)

    One other note: Multiple columns don’t do well on mobile:

    https://steam-space.org/staging/2422/

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    I am not sure what you want me to look at on this page. What is the ISRO entry?

    Indeed, tables don’t typically fare well in mobile browsers. If you can find an example of a div-based layout that works well in mobile and has the look you are looking for, I can help figure out how to implement it in Link Library.

    Thread Starter chriskeville

    (@chriskeville)

    Ack! My bad. I intended to post this link:

    https://steam-space.org/staging/2422/resources/

    ISRO is the first item that appears as a second column, under the ‘Organizations’ category.

    I’ll look around for examples that perform well on mobile.

    I’ve mocked up one using Gutenberg’s ‘Table’ block, which evenly distributes the td elements, and looks marginally ok on mobile. There’s a lot of styling to do yet, but it’s a start:

    https://steam-space.org/staging/2422/table-test/

    Ideally, I’d like them to stack on mobile. I mocked that up using Gutenberg’s 2-equal-columns ‘Column’ blocks combined with Gutenberg’s ‘Media & Text’ blocks. Again, there’s still some styling to do, but the layout works well for desktop and for mobile by stacking elements on the latter:

    https://steam-space.org/staging/2422/column-test/

    Cheers!

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    With the table layout, you could set better width for each of the columns. For the TD in front of the image, set the tag to:

    <td style="width:15%">

    and for the td before the text, set the tag to:

    <td style="width:35%">

    This will make the logo columns shorter and the text columns larger. Here is what that would look like on desktop: https://imgur.com/a/apqIJfh

    To fix the mobile display, you could add a CSS rule that will display all table rows one under the other. This could be done by adding the following to the stylesheet section of Link Library:

    @media screen and (max-width: 400px) {
    table.linklisttable td {
    display: block;
    }
    }

    This would make the page display like this: https://imgur.com/a/bERGkBc

    Let me know if you need any further help to get this layout working on your site and please consider donating to support this plugin’s development.

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