Widgets

[ghinton]

Correct me if I am wrong, but in v4, doesn't the gallery images widget shows images in a horizontal format if you place it in the same column as your forum (and makes it a carousel if you have more images included than can be displayed)? When I try in v5, if I put them over the forums, like I recall being able to do in v4, they show up vertically and are massive in size. They look ok in the sidebar, as they are so MUCH smaller and it fits the narrow format, but it looks horrible in the forums column!

Also, why the change in how the Topic Feed displays in v5 vs how it did in v4? Rather than just the topic title, like in v4, it also includes a snippet of the post, which causes it to take up way too much space on the sidebar.

[Marc]

The whole of the design on v5 has changed, so things will show differently. However with many of them, you will see there are actually various layouts you can use. 

Taking the gallery image feed widget for example. You are seeing this

 

However, when you are editing, if you click on the block, you will see you can change the layout

 

There are other examples such as the below, and I have used the same widget type for every one of them 🙂

 

   

 

 

  

 

 

[ghinton]

Thank you! I would have never figured that out!

[Marc]

No problem at all. Have a play around with the widgets. They really are quite powerful in v5 🙂