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I've created a new custom element! A gallery that toggles between a carousel and a thumbnail grid. very 2006 but i like it :)

https://learnwithsasha.com/private/nardeen/hey/

The problem I found is that in the back office, in the gallery, when I click " Add item : to add more images, it deletes all the previous ones.

That what Claude said:

"Confirmed and reproduced: the third image replaced both previous ones entirely. This is a bug in Lay Theme's own native gallery picker UI — not something in my element's code, and "Never modify Lay Theme itself" means I can't patch it directly. I'll report it clearly and give you a working alternative. Now building the rest of the changes."

Hoorayyyy :))
Please share the result when you finish!

https://learnwithsasha.com/private/nardeen

Hi Armin, I've created a custom post type for works with custom view (no gridder).

Made some notes from my experience:

1. Would be nice to have lightbox enabled for images / add in lighbox settings option to enable it for custom post type

2. It seems that image loading mechanism is different in AI generated view.
   While gridder images load softly, the custom view loads them roughly... it would be nice that it inherits the same lazyload mechanism.

3. I asked Ai to generate a footer with navigation buttons between works.
   It works nicely but it doesnt load pages softly with AJAX and creates a jump.

4. Maybe in the Ai -> custom views settings, you could add frame settings like in gridder.

5. When I asked to add a google font as a webfont, it downloaded the actual file instead of adding a script. This didn't allow the

And hey... besides that, it worked!! first client website with Ai modeeeee

ah, i tried it in chrome incognito w and safari and the error didn't appear there.
maybe it's a session related bug then

https://learnwithsasha.com/private/nardeen
macbook pro 16
laytheme version: Current version: 7.1.1 (problem also occured in the last previous version)

Hi,
Each time when I try touching an element on the gridder it crashes with the following error:

"Gridder render error: Minified React error #185; visit https://reactjs.org/docs/error-decoder.html?invariant=185 for the full message or use the non-minified dev environment for full errors and additional helpful warnings."

I've tried to disable custom html/css and the AI mode.
Thanks in advance,
Sasha

@chris.vuko Thanks Chris, I will try now

same here.

hi, if you still need help please feel free to reach out
spantan@gmail.com

here is my portfolio: cleanplatestudios.com

Hi Armin,
I'm also struggling with ordering the project index module.
Dor order by "Project Overview" relate to the order appears in the draggable project list under the overall Projects tab?

Also, the order that appears in the admin doesn't always corralate with what I see on the actual website... attaching some screenshot. Cache is disabled.

The page address:
https://lionsandquilts.com/category/articles/

Yeah 👏! That works now.
And thank you for the inspiring examples with the Project Index tool.

I have a student who is trying to create a text-first project index,
means that each item of the grid is actually a line\multiple lines of text, and that on hover, she desires an image to appear behind it.

I figured out that the easiest way to realize it will be using the Elements Grid, but unfortunately, the text objects there don't allow the image hover function in links!

Maybe it would be nice to consider adding this in the future update.

AND \ OR 🥁🥁🥁

Allowing an option for the thumbnail grid to initially display projects with hidden thumbnails, which will appear only on mouseover.

Sorry if it's not very clear, I'm having a little hangover.

Thanks,
Sasha

Thanks Armin,
Worked like a charm, would be very useful if there would a way in the future to control it via the Thumb\Element grid visual interface...

I've also implemented it for Element Grid:

.elements-collection-region .ph{
padding-bottom: 100%!important;
}

.elements-collection-region .element-wrap img,
.elements-collection-region .element-wrap video{
width: 100% !important;
height: 100% !important;
object-fit: cover !important;
object-position: center !important;
}

would be very helpful and freeing of cropping the images manually

Hey Armin,

I love the project overlay feature, but I sometimes want to use it only for a certain category and let the other project behave normally. It could be nice to have control over that.

Another request regarding the overlays is to add an option to hide the menu when the overall opens (The "x"/Close button often overlaps with the menu and actually reduces its need).

Thanks

Hi Armin,

I like the "place freely" option for desktop, but I hate creating a mobile layout for mobile if I just want all the elements to be stacked in one row. Maybe it would be nice if there were an option to translate the freely placed layout to mobile or just stack everything.

Thanks

Thank you!

Thanks Armin,
I never thought of working in that way!
That makes a lot of sense.. merci

Hi, It would be nice to have the option to make the footer "fixed".
It might be very useful, especially for those who have a vertical navigation menu on their sites, so the footer can stay fixed at the bottom of the menu side (which is usually a blank space anyways).

Cheers

Hi Armin,

Wanna share with you one thing that my student has pointed out.
Let's say "Works" is my project index page which shows the projects as a thumbnail grid/list or whatever..
When I click on one of the projects, it would be nice if the "Work" menu item's current state would still be active, to give the viewer more orientation.

There also can be a tricky situation here...
What if one has several project index pages? 'Works' and 'Exhibition' let's say...
Each index shows only one project category.
I've succeeded in fixing the problem with CSS, but I think that it's quite a basic need, and would be great to see such a feature in upcoming updates!

Maybe somehow a page can have an option to be assigned as an 'Index' page for a certain project category...

I like your brainstorming monologue in the previous reply (:

Thanks for this solution, it is exactly what I needed!