Hey Team
There’s doesn’t seem to be any customisation functions for ‘Product Long Description’ element - so I cant tweak the font size or width, or change the font colours etc. etc.
Thanks
Sam
Thanks for bringing this up. The “Long Description” is basically an alias for “The Content” and will pull through whatever is stored in the_content in the current post (or product). Most of what you would be styling there are things that are candidates to style globally in Theme Options. The next major release will be a whole new paradigm for Theme Options and we can’t add styling controls to “The Content” and “Product Long Description” without having to go back and change how that works later, introducing breaking changes.
So it’s not fully styleable directly and some custom CSS might be required if you want to deviate from the current font size and color set in Theme Options.
For now, if you use the Div element you can place the Long Description inside of it which gives you a styling context.
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Okay thanks Alex
I have managed to use the Div element to adjust a few things, and have had to manually code the text adjustments. A decent workaround until it becomes fully styleable - which yeah personally I think it definitely should be, given how related it is to other Product Elements such as Product Title, Price, etc etc.
A ‘Feature Product’ standalone element or layout template would also be great for down the track.
Cheers,
Sam
ps. the ‘whole new paradigm’ for Theme Options sounds very exciting.
Sounds good! Will keep that mind about something to feature a product.
Oh yes, the new Theme Options… we’re really looking forward to cracking all that open. It will essentially be a way to create your own custom stack instead of using one of the four included with X and Pro. If you’re already using one of those stacks everything will keep working like it did before, but if you roll your own stack you’ll have much more flexibility over styling sitewide, and we’re trying to figure out a good way to override those options at page and element levels. All very high level discussion internally, but something we are excited about getting started on. I think we’ll probably have some smaller cycles inbetween though.
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@alexander mate that sounds absolutely incredible!
To be honest I’ve been wondering for a while what the next progression of Stacks was going to be, as we’ve only had 4/5 for the last few years. Will be awesome to be able to customise our own Stacks, as that input flows through so much of the site (Posts, Products, Product/Post Archives, Sidebars, Widgets, Default Headers, Default Footers etc) - as you’d be well aware!! haha
Anyways, great to hear, and very much look forward to this Custom Stack Cycle.
Cheers,
Sam
Thanks! We’re really looking forward to building it. I think the power behind Stacks originally was that you started with a finished design and still had some customization options to change things.
We want to continue in that vein, but with a different approach. We’ll have styling options for all kinds of things like forms, tables, typography, etc. So you could make your own stack by using all the new customization options. Once that’s established, our team can create a bunch of “Stacks” that you can import (via Design Cloud) so you still have the ability to start from finished designs. We haven’t locked in a roadmap but that will most likely be Pro 5.0.