Essential Grid - Masonry - Even Layout

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#1

Hi,

We have a masonry EG for an events page:

Summary

https://lumenis.com/solutions/ophthalmology/news-events/

Information must be shown without hover, so a masonry layout is the only option.
The grid items are configured to be sorted by date. Being a masonry grid, the items are arranged according to the height of the grid items, instead of simply left to right by date.
I’ve encountered several similar posts about this issue but did not find an answer. Can a masonry EG have a unified height row so gaps are created? That would be ideal for masonry EG that its sorting is important.
Non-eg example:

Summary

https://i8.ventures/our-blog/

If that’s not possible with EG, what other workarounds are available?

#2

Hey Amir,

Yes, there is a way for all grid items to have the same height and that is by setting a minimum height for all of them. You can do that in the Advanced mode of the Column settings. The minimum height must be higher than your tallest grid.

Thanks.

#3

Yes’ I’m familiar with this advanced option but it not quite what I meant. There are two major cons when doing it:

  1. Some grid items will be reasonlessly high which will be a bad design.
  2. It would be static, so when an editor would add a post with longer content it would mess it up again.

My intention was a row that starts at a unified height. An example of such non-eg solution:

Summary

https://i8.ventures/our-blog/

Thanks!

#4

Hi Amir,

The example you provided uses a grid layout and not masonry.

For masonry, the only way to make it unified height, is to add a min height as my colleague have stated.

Thanks

#5

My intentions is not to have a unified height for the grid items, but rather a unified starting point for the grid items at each row.

#6

Regretfully, there’s no such feature in the grid plugins yet. The only solution to this would be to have a uniform image aspect ratio and also restrict the character count of your grid’s title like what you did for the excerpt.

#7

Okay, thanks anyway christian.

#8

You’re always welcome!

Cheers.

#9

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