Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Alerion Theme for WordPress
Here is the widget breakdown for the Utility section:
The Gantry Extras widget located in the sidebar section of the page is a RokSprocket Lists widget created in a very similar way to the previous RokSprocket widgets featured on the front page of the demo.
First, you will need to create the RokSprocket Widget. You can do this by navigating to Administration -> RokSprocket Admin and creating a new Lists widget.
You can find out more about RokSprocket and how to set up and modify widgets by visiting our RokSprocket documentation.
Here is a look at the Lists Layout Options for this widget.
Option | Setting |
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Theme | Default |
Display Limit | ∞ |
Collapsible Preview | Enable |
Preview Length | 20 |
Strip HTML Tags | Yes |
Previews Per Page | 3 |
Arrow Navigation | Show |
Pagination | Show |
Autoplay | Disable |
Image Resize | Disable |
Default Link | None |
You can set the RokSprocket filters to include any category, specific posts, or otherwise you would like to have featured in this widget.
Once you have created this widget, you can add it via the Widgets menu by clicking RokSprocket and dragging it to the appropriate section. When you have done this, you will need to complete the following.
Gantry Extras
.The widget should now be created and ready for use on the front page of your WordPress site.
You will need to enter the following in the main text field to create this text widget as it appears in our demo.
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Here is a breakdown of options changes you will want to make to match the demo.
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in the Custom Variations field.