Govintra V5.3

  • New “Homepage full-width” widget area. It spans the full page width and sits above the homepage columns (below the emergency message), so prominent content can run right across the page before the usual column layout begins. Like the other homepage areas it only renders when it contains widgets, so existing sites are unaffected until you place something in it
  • Six widgets now recognise when they’ve been placed in the full-width area and switch to a wider layout automatically — no settings to configure, and in every other widget area they render exactly as before:
    • News lays its three sections out as stacked rows that use the full width without growing too tall: large stories run two across, the thumbnail cards beneath them four across, and the headline list beneath that in two columns. Any section set to zero items is simply skipped
    • Blog posts card layouts spread into a four-across grid of equal-height cards; the listing layout flows its avatar rows into up to three columns
    • Wonderwall shows full wall-style cards — coloured award header, honourees, message and meta — in a three-across grid, with every card in a row the same height, instead of the compact rows used in narrow columns
    • Events and Events Calendar (The Events Calendar plugin) display events as boxed cards in a four-across grid at equal heights, rather than a stacked list with dividers. All the existing options — calendar date box, featured image, excerpt, location — work in both layouts
    • Vacancies shows its “Closing soon” and “Latest” sections each as a four-across grid of equal-height boxed cards, with the Latest subtitle running full width between them. Tip: with room for four in a row, you may want to raise the closing/latest counts from the defaults of 3 and 2
  • On smaller screens the wide layouts collapse gracefully — four-across grids drop to two columns on tablets and a single column on phones — and widget caching keeps separate copies per placement, so moving a widget between areas never shows a stale layout
  • News updates, Need to know and About this page widgets are unchanged by design; they already suit a full-width run