I already have SuperGrid, and would like to get this new one as well, but I just cannot seem to figure out how these work. I cannot find good documentation on how to set them up anywhere. Can you provide anything? I would really like to set my site up to look this good.

25 minutes ago, Geeks Life said:

 I cannot find good documentation on how to set them up anywhere.

It’s in the installation_instructions.pdf included in the download package. 

Just now, opentype said:

It’s in the installation_instructions.pdf included in the download package. 

I think I may have figured it out. A video would be nice 🙂 I think these are going to look great! THANKS for the quick response.

On 2/25/2019 at 8:39 PM, opentype said:

SuperBlocks only uses container background images, which don’t slow down page rendering and then the browser fills in the empty slots dynamically. That already works nicely. 

Images declared in the CSS will mean it takes longer for the browser to parse the CSS file delaying the loading of the visible page. If they were img src tags the requests would be made as the HTML is parsed so the visible page can load earlier. Why do you say they don't slow down rendering?

5 hours ago, asigno said:

Why do you say they don't slow down rendering?

The point was: background images with known dimensions are not needed to start the page rendering. That’s was the only point of that sentence. 

19 hours ago, opentype said:

The point was: background images with known dimensions are not needed to start the page rendering. That’s was the only point of that sentence. 

But the page can't start rendering until the CSS file has been parsed. It's actually something I want to get around to testing, did you try it both ways?

Edit: just found example of lazy loading background images https://toad.js.org/

Edited May 14, 20195 yr by asigno

6 hours ago, asigno said:

But the page can't start rendering until the CSS file has been parsed.

What CSS? There are several calls and SuperBlocks doesn’t add any new calls since the CSS is merged in. So again, the page rendering start is completely unaffected. That was my point from the beginning. 
In either case: yes, I have considered and tested all available options of how images can potentially be displayed and there are no plans to make any changes to SuperBlocks, SuperGrid and all my other templates using background images. 
 

Hi,

I am using latest IPS version and latest version of SuperBlocks. I have tried to add a block for the clubs, but I get a template error.

Running support tool does not help. All other blocks work as desired.

Sonya

11 hours ago, Sonya* said:

but I get a template error.

I can’t replicate that, so the only way to investigate this further would be with ACP access. 

Hmmm, I have the error only on my test server. I have just tried to create a block on the live server and there is no issue there. I do not know why, I will investigate further.

Another question: is it right, that the clubs block does not use the clubs cover or icon? I have only club name, description (if any), date of last activity, clubs owner name and number of members (if open)

 

 

5 hours ago, Sonya* said:

Another question: is it right, that the clubs block does not use the clubs cover or icon?

It uses the header image if there is one, since it is picture-based like a newspaper/magazine homepage. 
You can check it out on the demo page: https://www.opentype.space/superblocks/

Edited May 21, 20195 yr by opentype

Thank you! I have figured out, that it uses picture only if uploaded, but not the club image by default used for the clubs cards.

Hi,

I have a pre-sales question (sorry if it isn't the right place.)

I have several Pages databases, each of them with several categories. Let's say database A with categories A1 and A2 and database B with categories B1, B2 and B3.
Can I set up a single SuperBlock to include only some categories of several databases, like the latest entries of a A1+B2+B3, for instance?

Thank you for your answer!

 

Edit. Nevermind, I figured it out by myself. Since SuperBlocks is a set of templates for existing blocks, I understand this is an IPS related question, not a question related to your product. Great product anyway!

Edited May 31, 20195 yr by SRFA

Can i use superblocks for to create a block with a feed from "our picks" ?

15 minutes ago, Steph Jensen said:

Can i use superblocks for to create a block with a feed from "our picks" ?

No. It only supports the feeds mentioned on the product page. 

48 minutes ago, opentype said:

No. It only supports the feeds mentioned on the product page. 

Thanks @opentype

I want to create a blog feed but somehow limit it to filter the posts that get listed so that i (or a team of editors) can decide what posts should be listed.

Do you have any ideas/tips to create such a feed?

58 minutes ago, Steph Jensen said:

Do you have any ideas/tips to create such a feed?

I think you have to mark your blog post through something like “featuringing”. Then you can create a SuperBlocks block than only shows featured blog entries. 

Edited June 17, 20195 yr by opentype

Hello, topic images are not showing:

 

1 hour ago, sobrenome said:

Hello, topic images are not showing:

It will show images, when there are attachments uploaded to the topic. 

On 7/12/2019 at 2:29 AM, opentype said:

It will show images, when there are attachments uploaded to the topic. 

The attachments should be related to the first post?

38 minutes ago, sobrenome said:

The attachments should be related to the first post?

It takes the first attachment from the topic. 

1 hour ago, opentype said:

It takes the first attachment from the topic.

I will check again. I was pretty sure that the topics have attachments! thanks

Do the blocks use lazy load for images?

16 minutes ago, sobrenome said:

Do the blocks use lazy load for images?

No.