Grid Photo View vs. Masonry

[rangerjones]

I am interested in creating a horizontal grid of featured events that are equal in height. I would prefer the images to be resized and the excerpt length adjusted automatically, as is common in “recent post” plugins. A previous user used this example, https://theeventscalendar.com/showcase/milkwood/, though I only need a single row. You can view my attempt on my front page. Is this an issue with my theme, or is masonry my only option with Events Calendar without customization?

[Courtney]

Hi Gregory

I’m sorry the Photo View’s sort order isn’t quite as you’d hoped.

The Photo View uses jQuery Isotope to output the items in a Pinterest-type grid but not in a rigid row-column type grid.

You can view our Demo Site’s Photo View to compare its sorting to how your site is working.

The events are in order if you look at the top of each Photo View item in relationship to the top of the page (not in relationship to each other). Said another way, if your browser’s address bar is the North Pole, all the Photo View items are in order by the earlier start dates being “more north” than later events.

These 2 screenshots may be of further help:

• 1, 2, 3
• 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

If you’d like to see the sorting script improved, feel free to suggest it as an enhancement at our plugins’ UserVoice page.

This allows others who are interested in that feature to easily voice their support. We frequently review suggestions there to find out which ones are popular, then we implement as many of them as we can.

If you’re wanting Photo View’s sorting or grid/layout customized for your site, I’d guess any customization would need to be done via JavaScript, not CSS. If you need some coding help, you may want to ask your developer or reference our list of known customizers.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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