Jacob Martella

The <a href="https://crosswindsframework.com/downloads/crosswinds-blocks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Crosswinds Blocks plugin</a> adds in even more functionality to help you take your website to the next level.
The core of the plugin is the block library that adds in simple but powerful blocks that you can use in your posts and pages. There are blocks that add in post navigation and related posts sections for your blog pages. You can also add in social sharing sections so people can share your content with their friends and followers.
There are also accordion and tab sections that allow you to present a lot of information in a contained space. And there are very simple blocks that make tricky things, like breadcrumbs and the copyright date for your footer, super easy.
And for those who want to scratch their design, it comes with a grid block to help you create complex designs as well as tools for using flex box on all group and column blocks. Oh, and it helps you a lot with the responsiveness for all of your designs, so your website will look great no matter what device it’s viewed on.
As you’ll see, it’s a very simple plugin but it can add a whole lot to your website, even if you don’t use one of the Crosswinds Framework themes.
<h4>Add Simple, But Powerful Blocks to Your Arsenal</h4>
Showcase a Specific Post, Page or Other Content 
Want to showcase a specific blog post, page or other post type item on any page? You can with the single content block. This block allows you to select a specific piece of content and then customize how it looks on the page, just like you can with the query loop block. It’s a great way to highlight something people need to read.
Add Breadcrumbs to Your Pages 
Breadcrumbs are a valuable tool for helping people navigate through your website. They lead the way back to your homepage, which can help people from getting lost. And they can add SEO benefits as well. The breadcrumbs block in Crosswinds Blocks allows you to easily display breadcrumbs on any template while reaping those SEO benefits.
Add Maps, Marquees or Skills Sliders to Any Page 
Want to add a Google Map to your contact page? Want to display a marquee on the homepage? Do you have a portfolio website and want to display your skills in a slider format? No problem! The Crosswinds Blocks plugin comes with those blocks ready to be used wherever you want.
<h4>Design and Create Better Pages</h4>
The WordPress site editor really gets you roughly 90 percent of the way to being able to design amazing websites right from the editor. But that 10 percent is annoying, especially when it includes responsive design issues and lack of control over things like grids. Crosswinds Blocks give you that last 10 percent so that you can design and build better pages for yourself or your clients.
A Grid Block That Makes It Easy to Create Amazing Layouts 
One of the biggest design benefits of using the plugin is the grid block. In addition to giving you a grid section where you can control the number of columns and the spacing between columns and rows, you can also control the number of rows and columns a grid item spans. And you can control everything for desktop, tablet and mobile screen sizes. It’s the perfect way to create beautiful and complex designs on any page.
Use Accordions and Tabs to Better Present Information 
Some pages need to present a lot of information in a small amount of real estate. Crosswinds Blocks helps you with that. The plugin adds in easy-to-use accordion and tabs blocks so that you can add all of the information to the page but keep it simple and easy for a user to read.
Use Flex Box Tools on Query Loops, Groups and Columns 
Finally, flex box is an amazing thing. And while WordPress gives you some of those tools in the editor, it doesn’t give you everything. But Crosswinds Blocks does. You’ll be able to use flex box and all of its options for query loops, groups and column blocks right out of the box.
<h4>Add More to Your Single Post Template</h4>
The single post template is an important part of any website, especially if you rely a lot on your blog. And the Crosswinds Blocks plugin can help you add more functionality to your post template. From post navigation to related posts and helping people share your content, you can really make your blog post pages come alive.
Add in More Customizable Post Navigation 
When you have people on your website, you want to keep them there. And one way to do that when they are reading a blog post is to have post navigation to the next and previous posts around the current post. Crosswinds Blocks makes that super easy for you to add to your blog post template with next and previous post blocks. Just add them to the template, customize how they look just like you would in the query loop block and you’re all set. Now you can have people read more of your content and keep them on your website.
Encourage More Reading with Related Posts 
Another way you can keep people reading your content is by sharing related posts that might be interesting to them. And the plugin makes it super easy for you to do that. The related posts block allows you to choose how many related posts show up and how they look. You can customize them just like you would in the query loop block. So keep readers on your website reading your amazing content.
Help People Share Your Content 
One key in helping get your website seen by others is by readers sharing your content on their social media profiles. And Crosswinds Blocks can help you out with that. There’s a social share content block that allows you to display share links for all of the major social media companies so your readers can share your posts and pages with just one click.
<h4>Blocks</h4>
Currently there are over 15 blocks you can add to your templates, template parts, posts and pages. These blocks range from a simple marquee to post navigation to more complex sections like accordions and tabs.
Accordions 
The accordions block allows you to add an accordion section to your content. This can be really useful for frequently asked questions or any other section of content where you have a lot of information to share but don’t want to take up too much space on the page.
Advanced Custom Fields Field Block 
The ACF Field block allows you to display the value of a basic ACF field in your content. This block does not work for fields like the gallery, repeater or options.
Author Social Icons 
Add links to the social media profiles, website and/or email of the author of posts and other content.
Basic Grid 
The basic grid block allows you to create a simple grid of items. This can be really helpful in showing off a list of features for a product or service or a list of services that you offer. And you can control how many columns are shown at mobile, tablet and desktop screen sizes.
Comments Number 
Display the number of comments that a post has.
Copyright 
The copyright block allows you to display a copyright date and text on your page (most likely in the footer). And you won’t have to worry about updating the date every year.
Marquee 
The marquee block allows you to show a section of horizontally scrolling text in your content. This can help call attention to something you want — like a sale. It’s not recommended that you use this block a whole lot on your site, but it can be helpful when used right.
Post Navigation 
The Next Post and Previous Post blocks allow you to customize how your post navigation looks beyond the default WordPress blocks. The Next Post block will show the next chronological post so that a reader can read another post. The Previous Post block will show the previous chronological post. And you’ll be able to customize how those posts will look, just like you can inside a query block.
Post Type Search Results 
The Post Type Search Results block allows you to display custom queries and post templates on your search page template based on the post type that’s being searched.
Related Posts 
The Related Posts Block allows you to display a number of related posts so that a reader can continue to read more of your block posts. It’s a great way to increase the amount of time someone spends on your website.
Search Filters 
The Search Filters blocks allow you to create custom search filters for every post type on your website and gives you the ability to create search functionality that helps your users.
Single Content 
The Single Content block allows you to display a specific post, page or other post type on the page. You can customize how it looks similar to how you can customize the posts in the query loop block.
Skills Slider 
The Skills Slider block allows you to display a visual representation of how well you know certain skills, such as web development, editing, shooting video, etc.
Social Share Content 
The Social Share Content block allows you to show an area on a post, page or other custom post type so that a user can share that content to a social network with a click of the button.
Tabs 
The Tabs block allows you to create a tabbed section in your content. You can align the tabs either horizontally across the top or vertically along the left side. This can be another great way to present a lot of information but not take up too much space on the page.
<h4>Custom Post Types</h4>
Currently Crosswinds Blocks comes with one custom post type that you can enable or disable.
<ul>
<li>Projects</li>
<li>Videos</li>
<li>Resources</li>
<li>Guides</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom Taxonomies</h4>
Currently Crosswinds Blocks comes with custom taxonomies that you can enable or disable.
<ul>
<li>Project Tag</li>
<li>Project Category</li>
<li>Resource Tag</li>
<li>Resource Category</li>
<li>Guide Tag</li>
<li>Guide Category</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check Out the Crosswinds Framework Themes</h4>
Want to get the most out of Crosswinds Blocks? Checkout the Crosswinds Framework themes! From a portfolio to an online store to a newspaper website and even a blank canvas to create anything you want, the Crosswinds Framework will help you create a great website.
<a href="https://crosswindsframework.com/themes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn More About the Crosswinds Framework</a>
<h4>Disclosures</h4>
The Google Maps block uses the Google Maps API when it generates the map on page load. You can <a href="https://developers.google.com/maps" rel="nofollow ugc">find out more about the Maps API service here</a>. You can <a href="https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">view Google Maps’ Terms of Service here</a>.

Crosswinds Blocks

Take your website to the next level with the Crosswinds Blocks plugin!

alterbid

Chameleon Pure CSS Accordion changes its colors to match the theme colors of your site and does not divert the attention away from the information that you want visitors to see on your site. This is a highly customizable accordion builder for wordpress. You can easy sort your accordion position using shortcodes, set height of items, title tag, limit of items in your accordion.
<h3>Check Demos</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://alterbid.com/chameleon-pure-css-accordion-for-free/" rel="nofollow ugc">Chameleon Pure CSS Accordion – Live Demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://alterbid.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Chameleon_Pure_CSS_Accordion_Settings.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more about Chameleon Pure CSS Accordion Settings</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/alterbid/chameleon-pure-css-accordion" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub project</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Features Of Plugin</h3>
<ul>
<li>Responsive Design </li>
<li>Limitless accordion anywhere in the theme</li>
<li>Use via shortcodes</li>
<li>Widget option available</li>
<li>The accordion inherits the theme style, disguises itself as your theme colors.</li>
<li>Highly customized for User Experience</li>
<li>The accordion show the posts from the taxonomies you set in the shortcode</li>
</ul>
<h3>Accordion Shortcode</h3>
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="x, y, z"]
</code></pre>
Here “1” is your accordion shortcode number. You can add unlimited accordions and use any number of shortcode.
<pre><code>example: [chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1"]
</code></pre>
Accordion shows you all uncategorized posts ( or all terms id=”1″, or term_taxonomy_id = “1” ) 
Create a few posts in the category that will be displayed in your accordion. 
The accordion does not show the item if the item’s id is the same as the id of the current page. So on the home page the accordion does not show the item with post_id = 1 “Hello World!” 
We assume that there is no need to show the item in the accordion if the user has already opened the page of this item.
<h3>ACCORDION SETTINGS</h3>
<ol>
<li>
Add ANY TAXONOMIES. You can use any taxonomies ids:
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1, 2, 3"]
</code></pre>
You can use any categories, tags or woocommerce categories via ids of column “term_id” from table “wp_terms” of your wordpress MySQL database, 
OR use url-reference of the category in the backend admin panel
<pre><code>wp-admin/term.php?taxonomy=category&tag_ID=1
</code></pre>
<a href="https://alterbid.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Chameleon_Pure_CSS_Accordion_Settings.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">See Accordion Settings</a>
</li>
<li>
Create ANY NUMBER of ACCORDIONS:
Set number of your accordion. For example: item=’1′ …
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1, 2, 3"]
</code></pre>
Accordion does not work without №(number) of accordion ( for example: item=”1″ ) and without id of taxonomy( for example: id=”1, 2, 3″ ) 
The style file will not load if the accordion does not have any posts(items). 
For example: write shortcode
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1"]
</code></pre>
to place accordion with Uncategorized posts WordPress where you want
</li>
<li>
title=”…”
Add the TITLE of the ACCORDION.
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1" title="My Accordion" ]
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
tag=”…”
Set the POSTS’ TITLE TAG – p, div, h1, h2, h3, h4 …
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1, 2, 3" tag="h4" ]
</code></pre>
( default paragraph “p” )
</li>
<li>
height=”…”
Set the HEIGHT (px) of ALL POSTS in the accordion.
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1, 2, 3" height="100" ]
</code></pre>
( default = 45 px ) 
If the height of the item is less than 215px, when you hover the mouse over the item it opens to the height = your_item_height + 150px, if the height is more than 215px, the item opens to its maximum height.
</li>
<li>
limit=”…”
LIMIT the number of POSTS in the accordion, using limit = “5”.
<pre><code>[chameleon_accordion item="1" id="1" limit="5"]
</code></pre>
Items can be permanent or temporary. Remove only temporary items from the accordion using the LIMIT function. 
Articles that do not need to be deleted using the LIMIT function must contain a shortcode with the accordion number in which these posts are to be kept permanently:
<pre><code>[chameleon_kit item="1" ]
</code></pre>
If the post contains the shortcode [chameleon_kit item = “1”], this post will not be deleted using the LIMIT function and is a permanent post.
Temporary posts are posts that do not contain shortcodes [chameleon_kit item = “1”].
Among the temporary posts, if your limit allows, there remain posts in which the last ones were modified. The oldest posts are removed from the accordion.
<h3>ACCORDION ITEMs’ SETTINGS</h3>
Add
<pre><code>[chameleon_kit item="..." ] 
</code></pre>
to the item’s text to set up HEIGHT or ORDER of this item.
</li>
<li>
<code>[chameleon_kit item="..." height="..." ]</code>
Set HEIGHT (px) of any ITEM in the accordion.
Add
<pre><code>[chameleon_kit item="1" height="600" ] 
</code></pre>
to the post(item) text.
</li>
<li>
<code>[chameleon_kit item="..." order="..."]</code>
Set ORDER of ITEMs. 
All items are ordered by last modified in the item, but you can change the order of the items by specifying the order of the item in the text of this item; 
order=”last” if the item should be the last in the accordion, or order=”1″,if the item must be the top one in the accordion:
<pre><code>[chameleon_kit item="1" order="1"] … 
[chameleon_kit item="1" order="last"]
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
Use DRAFT to create item without link to the post. If post has “post_status” “draft” in your accordion and has shortcode 
for example:
<pre><code>[chameleon_kit item="1"]
</code></pre>
then the post does not have the link to the post and the link “read more” to the post.
To DELETE DRAFT POST from accordion you have delete shortcode [chameleon_kit item=”1″] from the text of the post.
<h3>Unlimited Shortcode</h3>
Here you can create unlimited accordion group with unlimited shortcodes. So using shortcodes you can display your accordion on multiple page and post.
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Accordion Widget</h3>
There a widget option is integrated with this plugin, you will need just add shortcode [chameleon_accordion item=”…” id=”…”] in your widget area to display your accordion.
<h4>It’s works With Your Theme</h4>
We have tested on with multiple popular themes and work on every themes. So design is very clean and works with your theme as well.

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