On Instagram (desktop), free image websites, online shops, portfolio galleries and almost every other site where content is structured grids play a key role. Inserting grids becomes an easy task with grid plugins. Among them, Essential Grid claims to customize every aspect of a grid so the design is consistent with your brand identity. Whether this is true or not discover in this Essential Grid review.
Essential Grid Boxed Layout[/caption]
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Essential Grid Fullwidth Layout[/caption]
Beneath we have two important settings of Essential Grid, columns, and spacings (between the grid items). Upon changing the column number to 3 and spacing to 10, we get the following grid for boxed theme style:
Just in case you are facing trouble operating Essential Grid, you can follow its searchable detailed guide or video tutorials playlist. Many demos are present on the official website of Essential Grid which can give you an idea of the plugin's potential for your WordPress domain. Because of the plugin's popularity, you will see it getting coverage by different youtubers.
Essential Grid Features
The multipurpose grid builder plugin by ThemePunch can blend into any webpage. This is evident from the Essential Grid's features that allow limitless customization.- Naming tab
To start off, give any relative title and alias in the naming tab but bear in mind to keep the alias lowercase. The generated shortcode by plugin helps to embed the custom-designed grid in blog posts or any other place.
- Content Matters
Essential Grid lets you pick content from almost any theme source. "Post, Pages, Custom Posts" basically incorporates the content of your WordPress site. The first Type, i.e. Post, will gather images of your posts and display them in a grid format. This option is particularly for bloggers. The Page is for navigational purposes. Whereas the Custom Grid option pulls in data from the WordPress gallery. The third interesting Source takes input from various social networking services, namely Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. If WooCommerce plugin is activated you will get to see Product, Variations, Order, Refunds and Coupon content Types. Note: Essential Grid requires a post to have either a tag or a category.- Reviewing Layouts
In the Grid Settings, you have 3 layouts (Boxed, Full-Width, Full-Screen) and 3 Grid Layouts (Even, Masonry & Cobbles) to choose from. [caption id="attachment_35881" align="alignnone" width="700"] Essential Grid Boxed Layout[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_35882" align="alignnone" width="700"] Essential Grid Fullwidth Layout[/caption]
Beneath we have two important settings of Essential Grid, columns, and spacings (between the grid items). Upon changing the column number to 3 and spacing to 10, we get the following grid for boxed theme style:
- Plugin Skins Analysis
To customize the behavior and looks of the Grid elements in your theme, Essential Grid offers over 26 skins. The advanced users can open the visual skin editor to build new skins either from scratch or templates.
- Plugin Lightbox
To enable a slider when lightbox is running, change the Gallery Mode to "All Items." You can also control the content dimensions, the slide animation and autoplay mode to name a few.- Essential Grid Miscellaneous Features
- Support for almost every WordPress theme.
- Customize how your grid emerges when a page loads and what happens when you hover an item.
- Export and import the Essential Grid settings including custom skins.
- Add Spinners or Preloaders which are animations that play until the grid image is loaded:
- Drag and drop the elements to arrange them in the WYSIWYG Preview interface.
- The Essential Grid content organizer can not only create grid layouts in your pages or posts but also insert them in your main page and sidebar. Essential Grid widget does the latter job.
- Google fonts can replace the default fonts in the Punch Fonts sidebar tab.
Ease of Use
The Essential Grid interface is minimal and intuitive. Furthermore, the plugin tooltips are there for help. The floating side buttons are handy in instantly saving the grid or refreshing the editor.
Just in case you are facing trouble operating Essential Grid, you can follow its searchable detailed guide or video tutorials playlist. Many demos are present on the official website of Essential Grid which can give you an idea of the plugin's potential for your WordPress domain. Because of the plugin's popularity, you will see it getting coverage by different youtubers.
Essential Grid Downsides
- You need to buy a separate license for each website.
- Because of loads of features, the plugin can be somewhat hard for a beginner.
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