Besides posts and your own items, a grid can show items from other places: a social media feed, a video playlist, or the galleries of the NextGEN Gallery and Real Media Library plugins. These sources come from Essential Grid’s free add-ons: Social Media, Video Playlists, NextGEN and Real Media Library.
More sources
On the grid editor’s Content page, More sources below Source lists the sources of the add-ons that are active on your site and not yet used by this grid, each with its own tile:
| Source | From the add-on |
|---|---|
| Social stream | Social Media: items from social networks |
| Video playlists | Video Playlists: videos from video platforms |
| NextGEN Gallery | NextGEN: the galleries of the NextGEN Gallery plugin |
| Real Media Library | Real Media Library: the folders of the Real Media Library plugin |
Enable turns the source’s add-on on for this grid: its source then shows as a choice under Source, highlighted, and you choose it to make it the grid’s source. When the add-on needs a step first, such as a plugin it requires, the add-ons dialog opens instead. A tile that needs another plugin says so, for example “Needs the NextGEN Gallery plugin”. A new grid can add a source once it has been saved.
The source’s own settings then appear on the Content page. For the stream add-ons (Social stream, Video playlists) these are the account or playlist to show, how many items, and how long the items are kept before the feed is read again; NextGEN Gallery and Real Media Library bring settings of their own.
Good to know
- A source from an add-on decides its items itself, so some settings of a posts grid do not apply to it; a stream without categories has no filters.
- The built-in sources are covered in Posts, pages and custom post types and Custom grids.