Plugins and Default Blocks

Explanation of useful plugins and default block settings like block variations.

This page is under heavy construction.

Current Blocks and Plugin solutions

Details block

default block that can replace the kadence accordion.
Change the default setting to faq 1 or faq 2 to get a styled version
Issues: this block closes in the editor if you click away from it. Looking into a solution, but a temporary work around is to set it to “open by default” while you are editing

FAQ-1

hidden content

FAQ-2

hidden content

List block

can replace the kadence icon list block with some css added to the css editor.

The theme comes with dashicons enabled as a font you can use, the following list is made with class names attached to the individual list items. You could do the same effect by applying a class to the whole unordered list instead. You can find the full list of available dashicons you can use for this effect here https://developer.wordpress.org/resource/dashicons/ (click on an icon to see the code for it) or you can import your own icon font into the theme.

list item check
list item x

This is the code added to the site’s CSS to make this work:

.list-x, .list-check{
	list-style: none;
	position: relative;
}
	
.list-x::before {
	font-family: "dashicons";
	content: "\f335"; 
	position: absolute;
	left: -1.75rem
}
	
.list-check::before {
	font-family: "dashicons";
	content: "\f15e"; 
	position: absolute;
	left: -1.75rem
}

The icon block plugin

self explanatory: simple replacement for the kadence version that lets you import your own as well
with a larger set added that matches branding style better – this part coming at a later date as an add-on

example

width, padding, background color, icon color, border, and border radius applied

Carousel slider block plugin

simple replacement for the kadence version
note: the slider needs to be put inside a group block in order for the arrows to stay inside the central column. you may need to use group blocks within the individual slides as well at times to make some content more readable

slider content 1

hello

Hopefully coming this term after some review

Block visibility

for a quick work around with mobile settings
for hiding/showing groups of content based on user roles or login status.

Timeline block

one found being investigated

Tabs block

one found being investigated
note that tabs aren’t recommended for hiding long content as they require the user to scroll back up to get to more information.

Hyperlink block

one found being investigated

Query loop add-ons

one found being investigated