Getting started with masonry layout?

  • amca01

    (@amca01)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    I’m experimenting with wordpress.org after several years blogging with wordpress.com. I hope to set up a site in which my blog (once imported) will be one of several elements.

    I very much like the jquery/masonry effect, such as in the default image of the free theme carton. However, I keep downloading themes which are supposed to be built using masonry, but I can’t find out how to actually create a masonry looking page. My hope with using wordpress.org would be for a solution which was pretty much point and click: given my content, the theme would do the rest. I was hoping to limit the amount of coding and css fiddling I have to do.

    I’ve downloaded a masonry widget, and several plugins: PageBuilder, SiteOrigin Masonry, and WP Masonry Layout. However, I’m not quite sure where to go next, and how to create a content rich page which, as I say, looks like this:

    If anybody can point me in the direction of useful websites, or give useful advice, I’d be happy to be informed!

    Thanks!

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  • Wayne McWilliams

    (@wpdevsolutions)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hello amca01,

    If you were building a theme from scratch I could show you how to implement masonry but if you don’t want to code anything I would say to look up the documentation for the plugins or themes that you discussed above. If you decide to try coding it yourself, I would be happy to help you.

    Thread Starter amca01

    (@amca01)

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Dear wpdevsolutions,

    Many thanks! However, the theme documentations seem to me mainly a walk through of their menus. I still don’t know how to set up a masonry-styled page! There are plenty of pages which describe how to use CSS, and others about how to “enqueue” masonry…some of which are a year or two old. I’m not quite sure where to start here, or what’s the easiest solution. I’m open to suggestions.

    I don’t actually mind writing code (CSS/HTML) or copying somebody else’s public code across, but I’m hoping to get a set-up which I then have to fiddle with as little as possible.

    As I say, any starter points would be most useful.

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