Pop-up Link When Not Using Elementor Embed

  • Resolved calooom

    (@calooom)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Whilst I appreciate the fact there’s an Elementor embedding option, I found it a bit too limiting for my use-case. As such, I instead opted to make my own custom loop.

    It mostly works, but I have one question about how you can have the story “pop-up” as an overlay rather than being a new tab.

    For example, when I use the embed feature through Elementor (provided by Google Stories), clicking the story has it overlay the current page and an X allows the user to exit out. However, when I implement my own solution with the URL, it opens in a new tab. I’ve checked the source code for anything that may point me in the right direction, but can’t seem to find the answer.

    Anyone able to provide an answer?

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  • Plugin Author Pascal Birchler

    (@swissspidy)

    Hi there

    We don’t provide any Elementor embedding option. Are you perhaps referring to the Web Stories Gutenberg block?

    If you want to use a custom loop to display stories, you would need to build such an overlay yourself.

    That said, I recommend reading our guide about custom renderers at https://github.com/GoogleForCreators/web-stories-wp/blob/main/docs/web-stories-embeds.md

    You could make your custom renderer extend \Google\Web_Stories\Renderer\Stories\Generic_Renderer which would allow you to re-use the same overlay logic that this plugin uses.

    Though we don’t officially support that, as the implementation of \Google\Web_Stories\Renderer\Stories\Generic_Renderer might change in the future, so you need to be aware of that.

    As we haven’t received a response, I’ll mark this as resolved. Feel free to open a new support topic if you continue to encounter issues, or reopen this topic and we’d be happy to assist. Thank you!

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