A grid with one featured item #

The lead story large, four more small.

Life cycle: Build, example 23 of 35. Worked out on the Fit & Healthy site of Exponential 6.0.15+.

Contents #

1. In the Layouts editor
2. With templates
3. Which to choose
4. Check

In the Layouts editor #

1. Open Layouts > Layouts and the layout Landing Page / Home; the editor opens it in a draft.
2. Open the block palette (+ at the top left) and drag List (group Listing) into the zone main.
3. Fill the collection; the first item is the featured one.
4. Select the block, open the Design tab and fill View type grid_featured.
5. Publish layout. The pages that use the layout show the block on their next view.

The media design has explayouts/block/list/grid_featured.tpl.

With templates #

1. Override explayouts/block/list/grid_featured.tpl to change which item is featured or how.

Which to choose #

Order the items to choose the featured one; no code needed.

Check #

• The first item of the collection is the large one.

Related pages #

• How a block maps to its templates
• Build examples, every page
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.