Hi all,

An exciting new includelet, and a change to how some images look on your site - read on to find out!

Content Blocks

There's an all new and awesome Carousel, Accordion, or Grid includelet, which replaces Slider. (Anyone using Slider will find it's been replaced with this new one.)

This amazing new includelet lets you make blocks of content on a page. Each block can have a mixture of image/title/content (all are optional) and the content part uses the wysiwyg editor.

The blocks can then be shown in different ways:

1. Carousel (what we used to call a Slider) - where you see one block at a time and 'turns' to the next block every five seconds. Great for a slideshow!
2. Accordion - you see the titles and click to open each one. Perfect for making FAQs (and works similarly to the FAQs app).
3. Grid - each block is in a thumbnail box, and you can choose how many to show in each row. Many uses for this, for example a grid of products, pictures and biographies of staff members, photos with descriptions, etc.

You can see an example of each here in the Documentation.

Thank you to Kingston Carers Network who sponsored the development of this includelet.

Image Aspect Ratios

I've made a change to anywhere that you have an image in an includelet where you select an Aspect Ratio (rather than using the image's actual ratio).

Images will now be displayed zoomed/cropped to fill the space of the specified ratio. This means that grids with can look much more uniform even if the source images are not all the same size.

I've also added this Aspect Ratio setting to a few more places, such as the Related Image Gallery and Photo Gallery includelets.

See this photo grid for an example. Here I've selected Square as the fixed aspect ratio - though if you click on the images you'll see that they're all different shapes.

NOTE that this means if you've selected an aspect ratio on any includelets then they will now look different to how they looked yesterday! Please check!

Enjoy!

Joe - Voice Admin

One thing I am finding though if you look at my archive page:

https://e-voice.org.uk/bedfordmodernsingers/archives/

As I'm using other includelets for photo albums and youtube videos, these can't be collapsed and expanded from the accordian control, which is a shame. Don't know if this is something that might be considered for the future.

Graham

Yes I might do that, but i can’t do the equivalent for the photo album as you can’t directly inline a photo unless it’s in the asset library, can you ?

You only looked at my second longest list of includelets. The really big one is:

https://e-voice.org.uk/bedfordmodernsingers/practice-2018/

Yes I didn't decide to go the photo-by-photo approach and instead just put in a button with a link to the photo album. In doing this though I did wonder if the album id remains constant after I've created the album ? If I add further albums or edit existing ones, does the album id change at all ? 

Graham

Just to add, when I look at it on my iPhone, there is no arrow to expand but once it's expanded, it shows as a little magnifying glass which I can tap to collapse.