Gutenberg Grids & Timber ++ Some CSS Grid Magic!

A grid mystery

Somehow the Grids Layout Builder for Gutenberg ist not pushing styles to the footer within a Timber theme. At least not for me.

Somehow the wp_footer action within the Grids plugin is not being executed and no grid styles are added to the footer. I am not getting any errors, but will have to investigate some more in the near future ;)

Update: It is related to the get_footer action within Grids. get_footer is used to load the appropriate footer template file, which I am not using in my Timber theme ;) So the workaround below is perfect.

Quick patch

Here a quick workaround for the theme functions.php, that does the trick for now.

add_action( 'wp_footer', function(){

                if(class_exists('Grids\Core')){

                        echo Grids\Core::instance()->styles();

                }


}, 100 );

 

Grids for WordPress, what is that?

“A layout builder is a tool that helps you creating visual structures in your page, from a simple layout made by adjacent columns, to more complex compositions.

Grids is entirely based on the WordPress block editor, which means that you’ll be able to use it together with the myriad of content blocks that developers and designers from all around the World are creating.

With Grids, we’re bringing a visual structure to the content written with the WordPress Block Editor.”
Grids: Layout builder for WordPress / Documentation / CSS-Tricks Article / A Complete Guide to Grid

Grids Example

This is using the Grids Plugin and only took a couple of minutes! I am so glad IE 11 is soon completely unsupported ;) and we can start using CSS Grid freely. Well we can, as nobody should be using IE 11 anymore!!!

On mobile its just stacked rows :)

LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

Things missing!

This is almost a perfect Gutenberg plugin and a reduced / simplified integration of CSS grid. I really think that this plugin makes Gutenberg 1000times better.

There is so much repetition of Gutenberg blocks out there, while this really addresses something new and nails it :)

There are still things missing, that are critical and would make this even more useful for certain websites:

1. Allow to name grid areas. Would allow faster manual css modifications.
2. Allow grid templates per breakpoint. This would make it perfectly usable in a responsive world. This is by far the most important issue!
3. Some additional styling options would be nice, but nothing major. (Allow to adjust the grid gap …)
4. Export the inline styles to files, that would leverage caching far better.
5. Custom CSS integration, which allows to centralize Custom CSS for areas and sections.

Enjoy coding …