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• Please explain how to use the "custom" ordering method for a collection · 8 years ago

  How should I implement custom variables as described in the following excerpt from Page Collections in the Grav Documentation? What is not clear to me is how to include a custom variable in a blog-it

• Gantry 5 - no outlines menu button? · 8 years ago

  Hello Using Gantry Version: 5.4.22, the outlines button and menu does not display on a current site: but it does on a previous test version: How to restore the Outlines button and menu? Thank you.

• How could Grav move all its files to another directory? · 9 years ago

  Yes, a stupid error. My previous attempts to drag and drop in cPanel failed miserably and then, assuming it was impossible, I discovered the knack when I did not want to. Oh joy. Thanks for GRAV.

• How could Grav move all its files to another directory? · 9 years ago

  That's good news. We will have to put it down to experience possibly an unwitting user error.

• How could Grav move all its files to another directory? · 9 years ago

  On Monday I reported our Grav site had vanished without trace. In fact it had moved and overwritten a copy I had made on Friday. I did not ask the cPanel file manager move anything on Monday, let alo

• How can a Grav site disappear without trace? · 9 years ago

  It turned out the files in our site directory (public_html/grav-website) overwrote the files in a backup (public_html/grav-website-100817/grav-website). Hard to see how one could do that by accident i

• How can a Grav site disappear without trace? · 9 years ago

  A couple of hours ago I was looking at a blog_list.md file in cPanel at our hosting service when the whole site (grav-website folder) disappeared without trace. Of course I do not suggest Grav destroy

• [RESOLVED with reservations about dropdown settings] Gantry 5 menu editor: how to top align submenus in a Supra site · 9 years ago

  I missed the macro that displays the submenus. The solution was to override center with flex-start in g-navigation g-grid {@include align-items(center);} in _navigation.scss. It would be better to g-n

• [RESOLVED with reservations about dropdown settings] Gantry 5 menu editor: how to top align submenus in a Supra site · 9 years ago

  The simple answer to this problem is to put an equal number of entries in each column of the main menu layout. It's a marketing opportunity! A technical solution with varying numbers in each column is

• Use of shortcodes for catalogue entries? · 9 years ago

  Thank you for the tip. Json is probably the way to go. As it happens I had unstructured data in mind. Each supplier goes to some trouble to set out the same sort of data in different ways. The idea wa