Hover effects

Hi there,

You’re right. Hover effects aren’t built-in to the plugin at the moment, but this is on our todo list and should be coming in one of the next updates!

Kind regards,
Brecht

I’m trying to figure out a way of building them manualy, but am no php expert so do you think you coud help me with at least pointing out the files I need to work on (add div classes, get the post excerpt ect) so the css can be made easyer?

Are you using the Premium version? All of this can be done in the Template Editor: https://bootstrapped.ventures/wp-ultimate-post-grid/template-editor/

yes I am using it. I don’t know how to set the template so that I can play with the css afterwards. I guess if I put an excerpt, that is not showing, and somehow use :hover to let it appear, it should be ok… but how….?

this is what I’m building: https://staging-server.acrolinx.com/library-2/

All that’s left is to have the excerpt appear by mouse over.

Do your posts have excerpts set? It will use the explicit excerpt field, not automatically generate an excerpt. If you want something automatically generated you can use the post content block and limit it to x characters or x words. This was introduced in the latest update.

Once you’ve got the excerpt you just look at the class that’s added by the template editor. For the excerpt that’s “wpupg-post-excerpt”, for example. I’d then use jQuery to have that appear on mouseover.

Brecht

Yes I have set excerpts for the posts. how do you suggest to use jQuery to let the excerpt appear on mouseover (sorry for all the questions, not an expert ??

You can use the hover function, similar to what they do here: https://tutorialzine.com/2010/02/the-jquery-hover-method/
But if you’re not familiar with jQuery I’d just wait for the next update to add the hover part.

You have text in the Excerpt field on the post edit page? In that case it should show up. Does the default “Simple with Excerpt” template work for you?

Brecht

The “Simple with Excerpt” template does not work. If I set the grid to it, there is no excerpt shown. Just the title. I tryed customising with the template designer, but it doesn’t work either. Though, if I put “content” as a field inside the box, it does load content (also able to set the ammount of characters beeing shown) but NOT with excerpt. Have you had this problem? maybe if I have the excerpt shown, I could work with it and set the css to hover or so?

Thank you for your quick answers, it’s allready helpful just to know some answers before busting my head for days…

And you have text in the separate “Excerpt” text box on the post edit page?

If so, try disabling all other plugins for a second and see if it works then. If not, try switching to a default theme (like Twenty Fifteen) and check again.

yes the text is set in the separate excerpt box.

I don’t think I will manage disabling plugins and so on just to let the template work.

But can you tell me when we can expect the update including the hover effect?

Thank you and again, it’s a really nice plugIn ??

You don’t have to leave them disabled, just deactivate them and check if it works then. If so, activate them one by one until you find the culprit. Once I know what’s causing this I might be able to provide a fix.

I can’t give you a deadline for the hover feature just yet, I’m afraid.

OK, I did that: I deacativated all plugins.
In order to show any content att all I had to reactivate these plugIns:
Advanced Custom Fields, Advanced Custom Fields: Flexible Content Field and Advanced Custom Fields: Repeater Field. So if any of those are causing the problem, I wouldn’t know, because they are generating the content.

By using the template “Simple with excerpt” on this grid:
https://staging-server.acrolinx.com/grid_1/
in the third row the class “wpupg-post-excerpt” is supposed to generate the excerpt, and it’s not.

Could you test the grid with normal posts and see if it works there?
The “Excerpt field” is not a custom field one, right?

What do you mean by “normal posts”?

“The “Excerpt field” is not a custom field one, right?” – I don’t get the question, sorry.

The Excerpt, as I pointed out after you asked, is set manually, not an automatic generated Excerpt (at least by some of the posts).

I deactivated the “limt posts” option, now you can see all posts.
https://staging-server.acrolinx.com/grid_1/
Also, the third row in the post box (after the title and the image) is evident, but empty.