I’m a quant / distributed systems dev who foolishly volunteered to help redo a [nonprofit website]). Guess I better learn a little WP.
Design mockup: [https://richard-berg.github.io/cantori-website-mockup.html])
Most of this seems straightforward to execute with a premium theme + some strategically placed SVGs, but I’m stuck on the second section (just below the fold). Conceptually it’s simple: feature the next concert prominently, with quick navigation to preview 3 subsequent concerts. But I’m not finding a match in any off-shelf gallery/slider/carousel Blocks, even the $$ ones that advertise extreme flexibility.
On the backend, I figure each concert would be a Post from a custom type with metadata (ACF?) like Title, FeatureImage, Composers, ShortDates, DatesAndTimes, TicketUrl. On the frontend, I just wanna select the next 4 posts of this type and put them in a gallery as shown. But I’m finding:
* “Gallery” type plugins are only intended to query your WP media library, not your Posts. At most, you can fetch & overlay 1 piece of text (“caption”), no other fields.
* “Carousel” type plugins usually have those awful radio buttons instead of thumbnails. Even when thumbnails are supported, they handle narrow screens by hiding content offscreen + arrows + animation, rather than just wrapping my 4 images into a 2×2 grid like a sane person. ([Sliders are the worst]).) Not a lot of control over what metadata goes where, either.
If I have to write something, fine, but I’d rather not start from zero if you know of an existing Block that’s close enough & hackable. Preferably that doesn’t bring in a whole JS framework just to add 4 onClick handlers.
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