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Notio: Content Showcase Particle

Your Guide to Recreating Elements of the Notio Demo for WordPress


Introduction

The Content Showcase particle displays posts in a modern arrangement including: titles, links, images, and more.

Here are the topics covered in this guide:

Configuration

Main Options

These options affect the main area of the particle, and not the individual items within. You can set the title of the particle 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.
CSS Classes Enter any CSS class(es) you wish to have apply to the particle.
Title Enter a title for the particle. This will appear on the front end.
Content Source Choose between Particle and WordPress as the content source. This determines where your content will generate from.

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 only appears in the back end.
Image Select an image to go along with the item.
Author Enter an author name to display.
Content Enter content to display.
Link Enter a link you want the item to link to.
Link Label Enter a label for the link to act as the read more text.

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.
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).
Pagination Enable or Disable pagination.
Order By Choose the type of factor to order by.
Ordering Direction Choose between Ascending and Descending as the post ordering method.

Display First Post

This section sets what appears in the first post.

Option Description
Image Display the image assigned to the post's Intro, Full or None.
Content Type Choose between Content, Excerpt, and Hide as the source of content for the item.
Text Limit Enter the maximum number of characters in the text to display.
Text Formatting Choose between Plain Text and HTML text formatting.
Title Show or Hide the post's title.
Title Limit Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display.
Date Enter a date for the item.
Date Format Select the format you want the date to be displayed in.
Author Show or Hide author information.
Link Label Enter a label for the link to act as the read more text.

Display

This section configures how posts other than the first one are displayed.

Option Description
Image Display the image assigned to the post's Intro, Full or None.
Content Type Choose between Content, Excerpt, and Hide as the source of content for the item.
Text Limit Enter the maximum number of characters in the text to display.
Text Formatting Choose between Plain Text and HTML text formatting.
Title Show or Hide the post's title.
Title Limit Enter the maximum number of characters in the title to display.
Date Enter a date for the item.
Date Format Select the format you want the date to be displayed in.
Author Show or Hide author information.

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