Deck

Deck lets you build slide-deck presentations with Lay Theme. Each slide is a Deck post and can be designed with the Gridder.

Activate Deck

Go to "Lay Options" and activate "Deck Feature". Once it is active, a new "Deck" menu item appears in the WordPress admin.

In the same settings area you can choose whether the menu, site title and footer are hidden by default on Deck pages. This is useful when you want the presentation itself to fill the browser without regular website navigation around it.

Create Deck Slides

Go to "Deck" in the WordPress admin and create a new Deck post for every slide. The Deck order in the admin becomes the order of the slides in the presentation.

Use clear titles while editing. They make it easier to keep the slide order understandable in the WordPress admin, even if the frontend presentation only shows the designed layouts.

Build Deck Layouts

Deck slides use the Gridder, so you can use the same layout tools you already use for pages and projects: rows, images, text, videos, Stack / Group elements, custom phone layouts and other Gridder elements.

For fullscreen slides, use browser-filling rows and place the main content inside that row. For more complex slides, Stack / Group elements are useful because they keep related elements together while still allowing flexible arrangements.

On the frontend, visitors can move through Deck slides with the left and right arrow keys. Lay Theme also shows an on-screen counter with previous and next controls.

Deck slide changes are kept direct. Lay Theme disables the usual Navigation Animations when navigating to, from or between Deck slides, so the presentation does not inherit page-transition effects.

Deck as Frontpage

You can use a Deck slide as the website frontpage. Go to "Lay Options" → "Set Frontpage" and choose a Deck slide as the frontpage.

This is useful when a site should open directly into a presentation, a fullscreen portfolio sequence or a guided story.

Deck Settings

In "Lay Options" you can set the Deck slug. The default slug is "deck", so Deck pages use URLs below /deck/.

If you change the slug and the new URLs do not work immediately, go to "Settings" → "Permalinks" in WordPress and save the permalink settings once.