Need Help "Kicking the Tires" with C5 - Thumbnail Gallery
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I'm a longtime ExpressionEngine developer, but am considering moving to C5 for some of my client work. I love the in-context editing and ease-of use for editors. With that, I'm kicking C5's tires with a personal project.
I'm moving along quite well with my first C5 site, but have a workflow question. I would appreciate some "best practices" advice for handling the following:
On the site home page, I have an area dedicated to thumbnails featuring project work. These projects might come from different "categories" or "channels" (to use EE speak), such as photography, sculpture, and painting. Each is a separate section of the site / navigation, but I would like this thumbnail area to combine content. I want to allow author/editor to determine & tag whether a particular content entry is to be "featured" on the home page. How can I configure a C5 block to filter / display this functionality?
Further, I would like all thumbnails to be cropped square - independent of the original image's aspect ratio. How do I set that up?
Thanks for your help!
Ed
I'm a longtime ExpressionEngine developer, but am considering moving to C5 for some of my client work. I love the in-context editing and ease-of use for editors. With that, I'm kicking C5's tires with a personal project.
I'm moving along quite well with my first C5 site, but have a workflow question. I would appreciate some "best practices" advice for handling the following:
On the site home page, I have an area dedicated to thumbnails featuring project work. These projects might come from different "categories" or "channels" (to use EE speak), such as photography, sculpture, and painting. Each is a separate section of the site / navigation, but I would like this thumbnail area to combine content. I want to allow author/editor to determine & tag whether a particular content entry is to be "featured" on the home page. How can I configure a C5 block to filter / display this functionality?
Further, I would like all thumbnails to be cropped square - independent of the original image's aspect ratio. How do I set that up?
Thanks for your help!
Ed
You can also research how the Concrete5 "Page List" block works and search the Concrete5 Marketplace Addons for additional "Page List" functionality.
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/editors-guide/in-page-editin...
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/editors-guide/in-page-editin...
Thank you both! I was thinking more about running with core functionality as opposed to add-ons, but I'll investigate everything you've sent related to Page Lists and their related addons. Thanks for the quick replies - I appreciate it!
Going down the 'core' route is okay.
You could try a search for specific code.
You could also try the 'How-To's'.
But DO NOT alter the 'concrete' directory.
Always make edits, alterations in the root directory.
Good luck.
You could try a search for specific code.
You could also try the 'How-To's'.
But DO NOT alter the 'concrete' directory.
Always make edits, alterations in the root directory.
Good luck.
After reading a bit, the answer to my question was pretty simple. I activated the "is_featured" attribute (which I didn't know existed until yesterday), and simply check the pages I want to be featured. The PageList block allows me to display only featured pages.
Then I created a thumbnail attribute as described in Remo's "Concrete5 Beginner's Guide". This contains my thumbnail, resized just as I like it. A custom template for my formatted output, and I'm done. No addons needed!
Thanks everyone for the tips and reading suggestions. I'm starting to get the hang of it!
Then I created a thumbnail attribute as described in Remo's "Concrete5 Beginner's Guide". This contains my thumbnail, resized just as I like it. A custom template for my formatted output, and I'm done. No addons needed!
Thanks everyone for the tips and reading suggestions. I'm starting to get the hang of it!
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/global-areas/...
or:
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/random-image/...
or:
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/featured-content-slider...
or:
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/bouce-box/...