Masonry Grid with Posts as a source doesn’t update when adding new posts

[chatelp]

Hi, I’m a previous user of Arnold v1, I’m progressively migrating to the latest Arnold v2. My 2 main problems at this stage are:
– I’m using a Masonry Grid with (blog) Posts as a source on my homepage. This grid doesn’t refresh when adding new posts. The only way to “refresh” the homepage is to go into BM Builder, delete the current masonry grid and add a new one. This is clearly not the intended purpose of this module since there’s even a “Newly added item location” option in the builder!
– (unrelated) When creating a new post with the Arnold provided “Gallery” type, there is no way to specify how the gallery will be displayed! Actually, all the images are dumped before the text of the post itself. This is clearly a problem.

Thanks for your prompt answer on those as I had to buy extended support specifically to ask those.

Best regards,
Pierre.

[SeaTheme]

Hi there,

Thank you for continuing to use our new version.

1.
The Masonry Grid module cannot automatically recognize newly added posts. You can only re-edit this module (no need to delete and rebuild), and edit the layout, and the newly added posts will appear in the layout editor. Then you can edit the added item position/size and save the layout. The Masonry Grid module is not suitable for lists that are frequently updated. I recommend using Grid. It is possible to set up a waterfall layout via the Grid mod.

2.
Sorry, I don’t quite understand the question. If you don’t want to show the Gallery, you can use the Standard type post. Or do you want the Gallery to be positioned below the content? If so, it is possible to achieve this with CSS.

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[chatelp]

Thanks for the answer to point 1. For point 2, to clarify, my problem is that there is no “gallery” in the post when using the gallery feature offered by the Arnold v2 theme : there’s a bunch of pictures that are all displayed in sequence, but absolutely no display styles.

You will probably tell me that I just need to use a masonry type block using BM content builder instead. But the problem is: these posts where created when using Arnold v1 and, in v1, you had multiple layout templates to choose from when a post was of the “Gallery” type : Standard, Big Title, Slider and Fullscreen.

In the current state, it will be way to much work to convert each and every single post to BM Content Builder. Especially since you still offer the gallery option directly in the posts in Arnold v2. I’m just missing the layout templates.

What to do?

Regards,
Pierre

[chatelp]

… also, if there’s absolutely no way to modify the layout of the gallery feature, then yes I’d like to know of to put text the content of the post before the images by CSS. Thanks in advance 🙂

[SeaTheme]

Hi,

Very sorry. In V2, there is no gallery layout template anymore. The gallery templates of V1 cannot be used either. You can only rebuild these layouts. For quick creation, please use the “Insert template” function in the BM builder.

… know of to put text the content of the post before the images by CSS.

The CSS:

article.format-gallery {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}
article.format-gallery .title-wrap {
    order: 0;
}
article.format-gallery  .entry{
    order: 1;
}
article.format-gallery .vertical-list {
  margin-top: 40px;order: 2;
}

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Regards!
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[chatelp]

But am I right in saying that templates made in BM Builder can’t have access to the pictures that have been added in the Gallery section of a post? That won’t do I’m afraid.
As a very partial solution, can you tell me how to put post content/text before the gallery via CSS?

Regards,
Pierre

[SeaTheme]

Hi,
Yes, the content created by the Builder and the Gallery images are independent of each other, and they will be displayed on the page at the same time. Since you need to rebuild the content, I suggest you consider using single portfolio type post to create it.

Sure, the CSS:

article.format-gallery {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}
article.format-gallery .title-wrap {
    order: 0;
}
article.format-gallery  .entry{
    order: 1;
}
article.format-gallery .vertical-list {
  margin-top: 40px;order: 2;
}

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Regards!
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[chatelp]

It worked, thanks for the support.

Cheers

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