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Contents

Overview Gridder
Zen Mode Gridder Elements
Choose which "+" buttons to show The Sidebar Appearance Border Shadow Elements above or below
other Elements in same row
Full Width Element Image Lay Options → Images Image Size Text on Image Video Lay Options → Videos Video CDN and HLS YouTube/Vimeo .mp4 Video Lay Custom Controls Shop / WooCommerce Add to Cart Button Product Thumbnail Grid Product Index Text Text Width in Pixels Lay Options → Texts Project Thumbnail Carousel Table Element Grid Thumbnail Grid Project Index Lay Options → Other Elements Marquee Stack / Group Element Accordion Lines Horizontal Line Vertical Line Social Media Icons Text Footer Embedding Instagram, SoundCloud, etc. News HTML Shortcode
Gridder Rows
Add and Select Rows Row Sidebar Fixed Row Row Backgrounds Background Color and Fade Row Background Media WebGL Slideshow Row Context Menu Collapse and Expand Rows Row Gutter Sidebar Row Background Link
Layout Modes
Place Freely Auto Layout
Gridder Defaults
Desktop Layout Defaults Custom Phone Layout Defaults Spaces and Offsets Horizontal Grid Defaults Apply to existing Grids
Page Settings
Where to find it Page specific CSS Desktop Colors Phone Colors Show / Hide
Page Templates
Enable Page Templates Create a Page Template Use a Page Template What gets copied
Horizontal Grid
Turn it on Spacing Align elements Default spacing
Blueprints
Try Blueprints Import Blueprints Export Blueprints Limitations
Animations
Scroll Animations
Element Animations Text Animations Trigger & Play vs. Scroll Scrub Timeline Animation Groups Float Physics Simple Parallax Site-wide Animations
(Lay Options)
Navigation Animations
Textformats & Webfonts
Textformats Create or Duplicate a Format Format Types and Tabs Bold & Italic Tab Decoration Tab Using Textformats Using Textformats in the Customizer Webfonts Variable Fonts Fix descenders getting cut off (lower parts of g characters getting cut off)
Customizer
Open the Customizer Favicon Menu Style Site Title Project Thumbnails Mobile (Smartphone) Links in Texts Background Search Front Page Cursor Project Arrows WooCommerce CSS Conditional Sections
Lay Options
Extra Features Media Cleanup Other Settings Loading and Performance Color Palette Breakpoints and Widths Gridder Settings Gridder UI Colors Sidebar UI Password Protection Compatibility Updates
Addons
Overview Scroll Slider Addon 3D Logo Addon Carousel Addon Imagehover Addon Lightbox Addon Fullscreen Slider Addon
Horizontal Scroll
Activate Horizontal Scroll Settings Individual Pages and Projects Compatibility
Fixed Header
Activate Fixed Header Choose a Header Page How it behaves
Menus
Creating a Menu Submenus Menu Styles normal pill button Position and Arrangement Mobile Menu
Custom Phone Layouts
Activate Custom Phone
Layouts
Create a
Custom Phone Layout
How syncing works Add synced elements to
desktop and phone layouts
Shop Setup / WooCommerce
Introduction 1. WooCommerce Installation 2. Prepare Cart, Checkout, Products, Shop Page 3. SSL 4. Sidecart Plugin 5. Cart Menu Point 6. Create Products 7. Add a Product
Thumbnail Grid
8. Customize the Look
of your Shop
9. Footer with
Shop-related Links
10. Privacy Policy, Terms
and Conditions, Returns
11. Do a Test Purchase 12. Emails 13. Shipping Labels and
Invoices
14. Prevent Spam and
Fake Accounts
Buttons
Button Manager Style Mouseover Active State Icon Presets Apply a button to text Text Editor From the link modal Menu items as buttons Compared to "Links in Texts"
News Section / Blog
Activate the News Feature Create News Posts Add a News Overview Footers for News Navigation between News
Deck / Presentations
Activate Deck Create Deck Slides Build Deck Layouts Deck Navigation Deck as Frontpage Deck Settings
Navigation between Projects
Project Arrows Next Project Link Project Footer with
Thumbnail Grid
Overlays / Desktop Burger Menu
Project Overlays Page Overlays / Desktop Burger Menu
Search
Add a search menu point Lay Options → Search Customize → Search Input & background Autosuggest Result list Close (X) icon How it looks on the frontend
Multilanguage
Website Language qTranslate-XT Admin Panel Language
Custom CSS Styling
Global CSS Page specific CSS Use built-in settings first When Custom CSS is useful
Custom JavaScript
Using an AI / LLM Newpage Events Binding Click Events
Dynamic Text Placeholders
Current Year Current Time Mouse Position Tags and Categories Current Page or Project Title Project Navigation
Tags
Create Tags Show Tags on Thumbnails Tags and Categories
in Text
Filter by Tags Search Tags
License Keys
Key & Files Manager Reset License Keys Key was deactivated Lost Key or Files Upgrade License Moving a Website
Troubleshooting
Links don't work Website or /wp-admin/ does not show up: "Critcal Error" or 503 Error Gridder does not show up Website does not show or work correctly When installing Lay Theme WordPress says style.css is missing Texteditor does not show up Nothing shows up / 404 Page not found Your Layout's JSON was invalidated Updating a project/page/category redirects to homepage Nothing shows up in the Media Library when clicking "+Image" I see a 403 error after activating Lay Theme Upload folder not writeable or I can't upload images I have a different error and my webhost support could not help me Lay Theme Bugs
Speeding up your Website Setting the Frontpage Footers Covers Scroll to Top Button Contact Forms Intro Image or Video Button to jump to a specific
part of a website
Password Protection Moving a Lay Theme Website Google Analytics

Simple Parallax

Simple Parallax is now documented as part of Scroll Animations.

Go to Scroll Animations → Simple Parallax for the current explanation, screenshots and video.

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