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Admin Enhancer is the first free plugin released under the cubicFUSION brand. The plugin is still work in progress, but a tool that is already used within some of my client projects. I am using this plugin to centralise things I love & need, when sending out a finished website or project.
NEW: DASHBOARD GUTENBERG / DASHBOARD TEMPLATES NEW: ADMIN TOOLBARUPDATE: SHORTCODES
This version includes a new addon “GUTENBERG DASHBOARD“, that allows you to build a White-Label Admin Dashboards using the Gutenberg Editor.
It integrates with the SHORTCODES addon and allows to drop in the dashboard widgets via its own Gutenberg Block.
The Block provides settings to overwrite CSS from the admin widgets, allowing you tweak them a bit — for better visual integration. The Dashboard template itself can be tweaked using CSS and Sass via SCSS now 😉
I am also releasing the first integration of the “ADMIN TOOLBAR” addon, which allows you to tweak some of the admin toolbar and footer options (Hide WP Logo, Hide Toolbar on Frontend, Hide Menu Items ..)
Already working on 0.3 … ENJOY!
cubicFUSION – Admin EnhancerWordPress Repository
Visual Composer shortcodes are normally not converted within the WordPress REST API rendered output.
This can be accomplished by calling WPBMap::addAllMappedShortcodes();
Simple way to do some Visual Composer Grid cleanup, when you are using Bootstrap within your theme. This removes and cleans up classes.
Visual Composer for WordPress Bootstrap / Bootstrap Sass
Really neat solution, that allows you to build a quick viewport based layout, without relying on the still buggy CSS units.
Also works nicely in combination with Visual Composer for WordPress :)
vUnit @ Github
When using Fullpage.js, overflowing section / slide content will be made scrollable with Slimscroll. If you want to use addons that rely on the natural scroll event, these will fail with Slimscroll. One of the candidates breaking is Scrollreveal.js for example.
I decided to work around that, to allow animations to be triggered when elements become visible or invisible to the viewport.
You could code the viewport visibility check yourself or use the “visible” jquery plugin.
“This is a jQuery plugin which allows us to quickly check if an element is within the browsers visual viewport, regardless of the scroll position. If a user can see this element, the function will return true.” jquery-visible on Github
The idea was to extend or hook into slimscroll without touching the fullpage.js codebase. Fullpage.js wraps overflowing content within a fp-scrollable container. Slimscroll itself provides events to track your position within the scrollable area in pixels or when top / bottom have been reached.
This is just a crude and simple starting point, but should give you the basic idea. This still needs some throttling, so that its not called on every scroll position.
Very basic idea to get some transitions working.
Hopefully Fullpage.js will be switching to iScroll natively in the future, as it provides far more options to handle scrollable areas. You can use iScroll now, but you have to disable the scrolling feature within Fullpage.js and call iScroll yourself. Not that difficult to do :)
There is also a WordPress Plugin that wraps Fullpage.js natively with a nice interface (WP_Fullpage) and my upcoming Visual Composer integration, which already uses iScroll :)
When mapping shortcodes using vc_map, you can assign icons to your new Visual Composer element.
If you created a container element, that wraps around other elements, the child element icon will currently be overwritten with the parent icon. A fix is apparently on its way :)
Currently the only way is to skip the icon option completely and use pure CSS for that.
You can enqueue a CSSs file for the admin through a vc_map option “admin_enqueue_css“.
The CSS targets the icon of the displayed element in the editor and the icon when adding new elements to the layout.
This video should give you a good idea what the addon can actually do.
In my last article I gave you a rough overview of the features & requirements. Here some more details and additions:
The addon is mostly done. I am finalizing the main admin area this week and will do a final cleanup next week, for the first beta release.
Many people have asked me for a release date. I currently plan to have a fully working Beta in the next 2-3 weeks. Will offer the Addon to a small closed group of customers first, before I think about other release options. I think I will offer between 20-30 slots for the beta run. If you are interested let me know.
Regards Alexander
Update: Video Preview
I am still busy finalizing the Fullpage.js Addon for Visual Composer. Hope to have some more images or even a video next week :)
Some requirements for the Visual Composer Addon:
The Addon will ease Fullpage.js integration immensely, but for a more advanced integration some CSS / JavaScript knowledge will always be needed. Do checkout the main Fullpage.js documentation for more information.
I have been working on a full integration of fullpage.js into Visual Composer for WordPress. This allows to easily build fullpage layouts, with different pages and full slide capabilities. Also added iScroller functionality, to allow overflow content to work nicely on certain pages. All of this is working with simple drag & drop :) and can be used by any unexperienced user.
I am currently cleaning up the addon, but I am not sure yet if I will offer it as a commercial addon or keep it for my internal projects only :)
Will post a video later this week.
Cheers Alex
Visual Composer for WordPress fullpage.js iScroller
Visual Composer for WordPress provides many ways to extend its functionality. There are already many add-ons available for this dynamic page builder, but its easy to do the extending yourself, by following the hints in the documentation ;)
In this small tutorial we are adding a “type” field to allow a special css class to be added to each of our row containers.
New Visual Composer element properties can be easily added by using the vc_add_param function. See documentation for more information. In our case we are adding a property to the vc_row element. Continue reading Extending the Visual Composer Row element with a new property