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Manticore: Top Rated Particle

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Manticore Demo for WordPress


Introduction

The Top Rated particle displays your latest posts or featured content, along with images and text.

Here are the topics covered in this guide:

Configuration

Settings

These options affect the main area of the particle, and not the individual items within. You can set the title of the particle, as well as give it an introductory paragraph here.

Option Description
Particle Name This is the name of the particle used for back end management. It does not appear on the front end.
Content Source Choose between Particle and WordPress as the Content Source.
CSS Classes Enter any CSS class(es) you wish to have apply to the particle.
Title Set a title for the particle.
Display Slides Enter the number of slides to display at once.
Slides to Scroll Enter the number of slides to scroll at once.
All Platforms Label Enter a text label to bring up all items regardless of category.
Filtering Enable or Disable filtering by category.
Prev / Next Enable or Disable Previous / Next Navigation.
Autoplay Enable or Disable autoplay.
Autoplay Timeout Set the time between autoplay between items (in milliseconds).
Loop Enable or Disable looping of slides.

Particle Item Options

These items make up the individual featured items in the particle. Items in this section will only appear if Particle is selected as the Content Source.

Option Description
Item Name This is the name of the item. This appears as the item's title on the front end.
CSS Classes Enter any CSS class(es) you want to have apply to the item.
Image Set an image to appear in the item.
Score Give your subject a numerical score.
Ribbon Text Input the ribbon text to appear in the corner ribbon.
Subtitle Enter a subtitle.
Description Enter a text description for the item.
Link Enter a URL you would like the item to link to.
Link Target Select a target window for the URL to open through.

Posts

Option Description
Categories Select the categories of posts this particle will display.
Posts Select the number of posts you would like the particle to fetch.
Sticky Posts Choose how Sticky Posts should be filtered. Choose between Show and Hide.
Number of Posts Enter the maximum number of posts to display.
Start From Enter offset specifying the first post to return. The default is '0' (the first post).
Order By Choose the type of factor to order by.
Ordering Direction Choose between Ascending and Descending as the post ordering method.

Display

This section configures how posts are displayed.

Option Description
Image Display the image assigned to the post's Intro, Full or None.
Title Show or Hide the post's title.
Title Limit Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display.
Content Choose between Excerpt and Full or Hide the content entirely.
Content Limit Set a limit (in characters) for the post text displayed.
Content Formatting Choose between HTML and Plain Text formatting for the post's text.
Link Items Select if the items should have links.
Link Target Set a target window for the read more link.

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