Deck / Presentations

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

Activate Deck

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

The same settings area contains the Deck slug and the option to hide the site title, menus and menu bar on Deck pages. Keep that option enabled when the presentation should feel fullscreen and separate from the regular website navigation.

Activate Deck and choose whether Deck slides hide the regular website chrome

Create Deck Slides

After activating the feature, use the Deck menu in the WordPress admin. Click Add New Deck Slide to create a new slide.

The Deck menu appears after the feature is enabled

The Deck overview lists all slides. Their order in the admin is the order visitors move through on the frontend, so use clear slide titles while editing.

Each Deck post is one slide in the presentation

Build Deck Layouts

Deck slides use the Gridder, so the editing workflow is the same as for pages and projects. You can use rows, images, texts, videos, Stack / Group elements, custom phone layouts and other Gridder elements.

For fullscreen slides, use a browser-height row and place the slide content inside it. For more complex compositions, Stack / Group elements are useful because they keep related elements together while still allowing flexible layouts.

A Deck slide is edited with the normal Gridder tools

Deck Navigation

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.

The Deck counter lets visitors move between slides

Deck as Frontpage

You can use a Deck slide as the website frontpage. Go to Settings → Set Frontpage, choose Deck Slide and select the slide that should open first.

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

A Deck slide can be used as the website frontpage

Deck Settings

In Lay Options → Extra Features, Deck Feature Slug controls the URL base for Deck slides. 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.