Use Gridster to manage your content with ease in a customizable grid.

Carsten Bach

<p>Gridster is a WordPress plugin that makes building intuitive draggable layouts from elements spanning multiple columns. You can even dynamically resize, add and remove elements from the grid, as edit the elements content inline.</p>
<p>You can fork <a href="https://github.com/carstingaxion/cbach-wp-gridster" rel="nofollow ugc">Gridster at Github</a> or tell me about your <a href="https://github.com/carstingaxion/cbach-wp-gridster/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues</a>.</p>
<h4>General – Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>manage your contents within a grid</li>
<li>drag & drop contents as gridster widgets from your last posts, pages or custom post types</li>
<li>resize gridster widgets on the fly</li>
<li>use custom templates for all your gridster-widgets, or per post_type</li>
<li>override side wide settings for every gridster</li>
<li>inline edit every content loaded via your templates</li>
<li>images within your gridster-widgets are re-loaded on every resize of a widget, to best fit its dimensions</li>
<li>add gridsters by simply adding a generated shortcode, you’ll get from the gridsters post-list </li>
<li>this plugin recognizes your defined content width from your theme and will help you create best fitting gridsters</li>
<li>scripts & styles are loaded only if shortcode is really used, this saves load time</li>
<li>visual shortcode replacement, like you know from [gallery]-Shortcode</li>
<li>TinyMCE Button to add gridster layouts with user-friendly GUI</li>
<li>clean uninstall: all options, gridster-posts and related post-meta fields are deleted on uninstalling (not deactivation)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Templates</h4>
<p>Adjust the HTML output of the gridster-widgets by overriding the default template from <code>cbach-wp-gridster/views/gridster-default.php</code>.<br />
Just copy this file into a new created directory <code>gridster-templates</code> within your theme folder and change it to your needs.<br />
Furthermore you can add different templates per post_type, when you create files like <code>gridster-YOUR_POST_TYPE_NAME.php</code> within these folder.</p>
<p>By using the later described <code>gridster_locate_templates_from</code> filter you are able to add more conditions to make your templates match more customized conditions.</p>
<h4>Inline editing</h4>
<p>With help of the <a href="http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeditable</a> library it is possible to edit loaded content directly inside the gridster workbench.<br />
So if you are using a post called “My grandmothers apple pie is the best”, you could adjust the text inside your gridster-widget to shorter version, ie. “best apple pie” without editing the original post.<br />
Just add some CSS class to the wrapper element, where your title will appear.</p>
<p>For editing single lines of text, like titles add <code>class="gridster_edit"</code>.<br />
If you want to edit texts in more comfortable textarea use <code>class="gridster_edit-area"</code></p>
<p>Have a look at the <code>/views/gridster-default.php</code> inside the plugin directory to get a clue.</p>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
<h4>Filters and Hooks</h4>
<p>You can adjust the behavior of this plugin by using following <strong>filters</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Change the <code>get_post_types()</code> call for usable post_types by filtering <code>gridster_get_post_types_as_widget_blocks_args</code></li>
<li>Change final array of used post_types by modifying <code>gridster_post_types_as_widget_blocks</code></li>
<li>Filter the list of visible / usable posts per post_type by hooking into <code>gridster_get_posts_by_type_query_args</code></li>
<li>Adjust the naming convention for used templates by filtering <code>gridster_locate_templates_from</code></li>
<li>Add custom CSS classes to each Gridster widget individually from a multiple select field enhanced by <a href="http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/" rel="nofollow ugc">chosen.js</a>, using the <code>gridster_choose_from_custom_css_classes_for_widgets</code> filter.<br />
The return of your applied function should be an array() like this <code>array( 'alignleft' => __('Align text from left'), 'alignright' => __('Align text from right')</code>, where the array_keys are the CSS classes to apply and the values are the readable text for you or your editors.</li>
<li>Change the capability, which allows users to overwrite the default settings for each gridster individually by filtering <code>gridster_overwrite_post_options_with_cap</code>. By default “edit_theme_options” is used.</li>
</ul>
<p>Or you can hook in your own functionality by using the following <strong>action hooks</strong>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Do something before and/or after the shortcode ouput by using <code>gridster_before_shortcode_render</code> or <code>gridster_after_shortcode_render</code>. Both action hooks come with three additional arguments you are able to work with, the <code>$post_id</code>, the <code>$title</code> and the <code>$widgets_html</code> of the current gridster-post.  </li>
</ul>
<p>Have a look inside the plugin file to see, what variables you are able to use within your filter hooks.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (en_US)</li>
<li>German (de_DE)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Many Thanks goes out to</h4>
<ul>
<li>The guys of <a href="http://ducksboard.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ducksboard</a> and the many github Contributors for their work on <a href="https://github.com/ducksboard/gridster.js" rel="nofollow ugc">gridster.js</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.appelsiini.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mika Tuupola</a> for his work on <a href="http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable" rel="nofollow ugc">Jeditable</a></li>
<li><a href="http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yusuke Kamiyamane</a> for his <a href="http://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/diagona" rel="nofollow ugc">Diagona Icons</a> licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="nofollow ugc">Creative Commons (Attribution 3.0 Unported)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.midtonedesign.com/portfolio/category/portfolio/" rel="nofollow ugc">MidTone Design</a> for their <a href="http://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/webinjection" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Injection Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.aha-soft.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dmitry Costenco</a> for his <a href="http://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/freeapplication" rel="nofollow ugc">Free Applications Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/u/newmooon/" rel="nofollow ugc">New Moon</a> for their <a href="http://www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/UltimateGnome" rel="nofollow ugc">Ultimate Gnome Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.getharvest.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Harvest</a> for developing <a href="http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/" rel="nofollow ugc">chosen.js</a> a Javascript Plugin to make <code><select></code>s more user-friendly</li>
</ul>


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