Feature Request for Automatic Latest Content

We have been using MailPoet 3 for almost a year now and we miss not being able to use featured images with our newsletters because of how large the images for our posts are above and below the post title in a single column layout. We have 6 newsletters that go out daily to different employee groups in my school district so we rely heavily on the Automatic Latest Content (ALC) module. However this module does not work well “style wise” with 2 and 3 column layouts.

I have tried to use the ALC module with 2 and 3 column layouts and found the featured image sizes are nicer looking compared to 1 column, but designing this kind of layout using the ALC module is messy. I have a couple feature requests that can possibly help with this and hope you can find a way to add them to the toolset of your great plugin.

1). Add 2 and 3 column layouts as a toggle-able option for Automatic Latest Content module

Featured images automatically size smaller in multi-column layouts (which I know many people on your forum love and have been requesting). With the ALC + 2|3 columns option, the content can fill the columns automatically, and dividers can be styled and inserted in the right places with no extra dividers stacked around (when done manually). Obviously with adding a feature like this you will have to make it where people couldn’t use this feature if the module wasn’t already sitting in a 1 column spot in the newsletter.

2). Add a Section Header option to Automatic Latest Content

We have categories of posts displayed in different sections in our newsletter and sometimes when our newsletter goes out, there may not be content for one of our categories. Our users see the header for that section, but no content underneath (which is the right result). Wish there was a way to make the header for that section not appear if there is no content. It would make our newsletters a lot cleaner.

Here’s an example of what I’m talking about – Click for Screenshot.

3). Featured Image for Title Only

Under Display Options, if you select Title Only, why are we not allowed to have a Featured Image? When you choose Excerpt, the Featured Image option is available and we have the option to say “none” for not having a featured image. Can you give the same option to “Title only”?

Thanks for reading my suggestions and hope improvements come to the ALC soon so my team can start using images in our newsletters again.

Jerrad

• This topic was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Jerrad.