Weāve just shipped an update to the Essentials templates, adding 10 new templates to help you build out blogs and team pages even faster. This update means we are now just short of 100 professionally designed templates in the pack
If youāve already purchased the Essentials pack, this update is included for free, just update the pack in Elements and the new templates will appear in your template library!
And if you havenāt picked up the Essentials pack yet, thereās never been a better time as itās 20% off for a limited time to celebrate this update
If you havenāt picked up the Essentials Pack yet, hereās a quick video showing just how fast you can build a website from scratch
New post list layouts:
Post List Sharp Image
Post List Image and Text
Post List Image Overlap
Post List Tall Cards
Related Posts List
New post headers:
Post Header
Post Header Centered
Post Header with Image
Post Header Image Overlay
Plus:
Team Grid with Square Images
You can preview all the new templates, as well as the existing ones, on the Elements Essentials preview site.
The new post list and header templates give you a lot more flexibility when designing blog index and article pages, whether you want clean and minimal or something more image-led.
To get the new templates, just update the Essentials pack directly in Elements and theyāll appear alongside the existing ones.
As always, weād love to see what you build with them, and if thereās a template or layout youād like to see in a future update, drop a reply below.
Fantastic. Iām now a little confused as there are two names - both cms and blog headings. I think you used to call them blogs, then changed to cms, and now are blogs again. Forgive me if Iāve misunderstood. Are they the same thing? And how do I switch between the old style of blgo Iāve been creating and the new look? They look great. Thank
The āCMSā templates are using the CMS components, whereas the āBlogā templates are using just the core components, meaning youād have to convert over those templates if you wanted to use them with the CMS.
So if you want just a standard way to create blog posts on the site just use a blog template, but if you want all the bells and whistles of the CMS (online editing etc) go for the CMS components?
The difference is that the CMS templates are using the CMS components, so they are hooked up to use the CMS.
Whereas the Blog templates are using just the core components, and are therefore not hooked up to use the CMS.
If you wanted to use the new Blog templates specifically with our CMS, you would have to do a little bit of work (place the blog template you want to use inside either a CMS Item or CMS Collection and then change the text content to use the CMS syntax e.g. {{item.title}}).
If you use the new Blog Components, do they automatically generate āpretty-urlsā for each blog post, or is this something that has to be set up somewhere else? Iām a RW-Classic user, thinking of updating to Elements. I have a large 12-year+ blog, and its fairly important I keep the same tidy URLs if and when I cross over.
Pretty URLs generally need to be enabled manually. However, there is clear and simple documentation for that.
Keeping the existing URLs from your old blog should not be a problem. You may need to add the appropriate .htaccess rules, but that would probably be the smaller part of the work.
Iām not sure which blog system youāre currently using, but in general, the idea of moving to Elements and ECMS 2.0 is the right one and definitely worth pursuing.
I have a few years worth of blog posts that i need to port to Elements (was using the Poster Stack) without going to in depth what would be the most efficient way to do that?
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