Code Amp

Hey @gamicord I was just browsing the forums as this came through 🙂

Right now without coding, you won’t be able to achieve those dynamic elements yet. It’s on our todo for a big update coming out next year.

However, there is a route that involves some coding.

We have WP hooks so that you can replace the html content of any element in a layout:
https://customlayouts.com/documentation/action-filter-reference/ – the hook you probably want is the last example custom-layouts/element/render_output

So you could then use the appropriate PODs function to pull its data and modify your element with the content you want.

Hopefully these answers will clarify a few things:

1. Yup this will work
2. We don’t have dynamic content yet (only custom fields), but you could use one of those hooks I mentioned to add the image to the taxonomy element.
3. PODs taxonomies are regular taxonomies, so you can show this using our taxonomy element.
4. We have an excerpt element
5. Planned in a update also, but for now, you’d have to use a hook to add the image
6. Not sure on this, my guess this is saved as a custom field, and we support date based custom fields… So you would need to find out the custom field (aka post meta) key – my guess it’ll be there unless they are using custom tables

For the next two questions:
1. So with the above in mind (the design elements you can’t achieve), you would design your template using our template editor (its drag and drop and based on / integrated with gutenberg – but you can use it with any page builder
https://customlayouts.com/documentation/templates/

2. You would use our layouts to build the archive style layout:
https://customlayouts.com/documentation/layouts/
Then depending on what you are using, you can add (and create) a layout via a block, or via our admin page, and use a shortcode to drop that in somewhere (eg, if using Elementor)

Right now, you’ve highlighted a ton of features we don’t have, and would love to have…

We’re making progress, but the first thing we want to tick off is full support for gutenberg blocks (so you can add any block to our templates) – this would allow for rows and columns, and all kinds of dynamic blocks (I know ACF has some, assume PODs might have some too) – and that is going to take some time.

Anyway, I hope all that helps – I’m guessing our plugin is probably not ready for your needs just yet.

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Hi @drnmarian

As I didn’t hear back from you I’m closing this for now, feel free to re-open and we can discuss how to achieve what you want.

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– Ross

Hey @wpfangirl thanks for the udpate, I’ll close for now but feel free to let me know how you got on and re-open this issue should you need to.

Cheers!
– Ross

Hey @originalpiratematerial

We’re actually looking at dropping that masonry script and replacing it with a pure CSS based approach instead (CSS Grid, probably)…

Re the wider items, I’ve wanted to do something like that for a while, just need to make the switch and then figure out how how we can do that with CSS grid.

It’s not going to be a quick addition (there is a lot of work to be done in the next major update, first) and then we’ll surely get to this.

Actually I do have one idea: to add a WP hook (for layouts) so that you can add a custom class to certain elements (the ones that need the extra width class).

I’m not 100% on it, but its something I might be able to drop in quite easily (need to double check on that)… do you think that would give you the flexibility you need to implement the above?

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– Ross

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Code Amp.

Thanks for the kind words @mateuszligocki !

By all means, please share what you would like to see / think is missing in more detail and we’ll see if we can put some ideas on the roadmap?

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-Ross

Hi Sallie

I didn’t get to release this before the weekend (and I’m away next week) so thought I’d drop you the link to the beta, with this fix in, should you want to test it out:
https://customlayouts.com/documentation/beta/

There are only a couple of changes in the release so it should be pretty stable, but proceed with caution as with any beta.

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Hi Bart

Apologies for the delay on this.

I’ve been doing some extensive testing and I cannot reliably recreate this issue in order to resolve it.

I have even gone as far as replacing a lot of the file system code, but in the end, it looks like its the wrong approach just to work around this issue.

Could you try adding this:

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

to wp-config?

From my understanding, using the above constant in a shared host could be a security issue (if the host is not configured correctly), but as you mention, you have your own servers so I think its ok to use that constant.

If that doesn’t work, then I have some other ideas about tackling this but they don’t look like quick fixes.

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Thanks for the additional info – I’ll do some checking from my side too.

Will try to get back to you early in the week.

Have a good weekend

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– Ross