Can Pro Replicate a "Magazine" theme now?

Would you be kind enough to have a look at upriseri.com and I’ll briefly describe the elements and wondering if Pro with the new loopers can replicate this dynamically generated layout out of the box?

Ignore the header, I know we can design that in Pro. Here are the rest of the elements going down the page:

  1. Large hero: Most recent story with tag “top”. One line excerpt below it.
  2. Next 4 most recent stories with tag “top”. Meta shown: Featured image, Category, Recency, Title
  3. Ad (Ignore, I know we can include this)
  4. Section title (post category)
  5. Each section follows essentially the same layout:
  • First story uses featured img as the background, with category, recency, large title, and excerpt overlaid.
  • Next two most recent stories from category. Uses smaller images with meta below.
  • Ad space in top of 3rd column (if no ad, includes 2 addtl stories).
  • Next 3 (or 5) most recent stories from category with small image on left, and meta on right.

The rest of the page is simply different sections (i.e. post categories).

Dying to migrate this over to Pro - if it can pull this off. I’m not asking you to do the work for me, but a) Can this be done w/o all manual code customization, b) Can you guide me on how to set up one of main sections (eg. Civil Rights) to do this with the loopers? Thank you!

Hello @co50,

Thanks for writing in!

a.) Yes, you can do it without any custom code modifications.

b.) Yes, all of those sections can be achieved by using several Loopers on the page. We highly recommend that you review our documentations first to get familiar with the new Layout Builder in the Pro theme.




Best Regards.

I should have added that I’ve watched all the videos and read the docs, but still a few things are unclear:

The page features lots of featured images in different sizes. The current theme uses different thumbnail sizes based on the size of the image area. As I understand it, Pro’s loopers ONLY support the full size feature image? That would mean 2500 pixel wide images loading in small 400x wide containers. How do we account for this?

Hi @co50,

Thanks for the detailed explanation. Regretfully, there’s no option to do that yet but I’ll submit a feature request for further investigation.

Thank you.

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Thanks - seems like this would be a MAJOR requirement for the recent posts looper feature. I would imagine nobody wants a blog archive with 6-10 ‘thumbnails’ that are actually the full size image in a small container. Surprised they missed this.

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Sure, appreciate your thoughts on this.

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