Custom Select Cards

Hello, and Welcome to cuTheme advanced training,  Module 2. In this video, we  will be covering Card Blocks.

Card Blocks are a way to display categorized  content on pages as “cards”, allowing the user  to select an individual piece of content within  the block.

Card Blocks are available for posts,  events, people, or videos. In this video,  I will be going over all four types.

So to add a Card Block, go  to the block selection menu,  scroll down to “Content Types”, and I’m going  to start off with a News Card. Once selected, you will see there are various options which I will take you through. 

You can add to a news card a header and some intro text. You can change the block’s background, make it either white or grey, and you can choose how many columns the block has, between two and four. 

For the cards themselves, you can make the background white or grey, just like the background. You can choose whether the card has a shadow, either on hover, or in general. So on “Card and Hover”, it looks like this. On “Hover Only”, there’s no outline here, but there’s a shadow when you hover over. You can also have none, so there’s no shadow at all.

As well, you can toggle on and off images, dates, and excerpts. For the full block, you can choose how many posts you want, between one and twelve, and the more button, just like listing blocks. You can choose whether you want to load more at the end of the card, which will have the user stay on the page. You can have “View More”, which will take the user to another page, which you can add in here, or you can have none at all. 

Lastly, you can choose which categories you want the card to have. So if I want “News”, I could click on that, and there’s no posts here with the category “News”, so none show up, but as you categorize your posts, you can have specific categories displayed.

I will now quickly take you through some specific options for other types of Card Blocks. So I’m going to add an event card here, and you can see there’s a lot of the same options that you had before, like a header, the background, number of columns, etc.

What the Event Card block has is that you can sort it either by upcoming events, as you can see here, or past events. 

The next type of block I will be showing is People Cards. People Cards again have a lot of the same options as before. You can either choose to show all people, or a specific category of people, and you can sort by last name or first name, either from A to Z, or Z to A.

The last type of card is a Video Card, and the main option for Video Cards is that you can sort either by video title or publishing date. For video title, you can sort from A to Z or Z to A like you could for people, or by publishing date, either old to new, or new to old.