grid-a-licious
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- kalkal
Am I missing something or does this wordpress theme generally create a non grid conforming mess rather than the clean cut perfection that Suprb normally produce? Out of the box, creating new posts, no matter what is contained seems to make a mess, nothing like their screenshots...
- acescence0
I helped someone customize it once and it had tons of invalid css, javascript errors, php errors. it's a bit of a hacky mess.
- kalkal0
This leads me on to the question; is there a better alternative, other than building a theme from scratch?
- ukit0
It shouldn't hard to create a similar layout. It's just a bunch of posts arranged in floating boxes, right?;)
- omgitsacamera0
I'm fine with mine.
Then again, I don't really post and no one looks at it anyways...
- kalkal0
Yeah but it's supposed to arrange the content to fit to a grid, dependant on the browser width, right?;(
- ukit0
True - so unless you are comfortable writing your own script to replicate that aspect, you might be out of luck. And ascescence's points taken, there are sites using it where it works quite well - such as typeneu.com.
- they have obviously modified it extensively here... some lazy loading js trickery there i see..acescence
- acescence0
it's just a jquery function that absolutely positions the boxes when you load or resize, not much to duplicating it in your own theme.
- kalkal0
I have practically no coding experience but I think I could probably hack that kind of layout together with lots of time, I usually figure these kind of things out as I go along. I'm not actually desperate to go with the grid thing, it's just that if it worked as advertised, it'd be a nice layout to build a site with. Problem being, I can't seem to figure out exactly what is really is doing wrong
- acescence0
yeah, post up a link and we'll have a look...
- kalkal0
http://suprb.com/apps/gridalicio…
This is what I see (from the Suprb hosted demo)
The preview from their site:
A big gap between the two, yea?...
- ukit0
Not really...I think it just has to do with the sizing of the boxes. The script tries to arrange them into a grid of some sort, but if they are all different sizes it probably won't look very good.
- Ruffian0
Depends on the size of the images. Grid-a-licious resizes images to three different sizes depending on the original size. Small, medium and large.
If you want everything to look nice and organized - use small images.