Block: Item Teasers

Highlight content like videos, articles, or courses in a carousel or grid layout.

Content that can be displayed in a teasers block:

  • Videos
  • Articles
  • Courses
  • Landing Pages

 

Display order is configured in the module settings.

Example of a teasers block view

Setting options for the Item Teasers block

 

Available fields:

Title Name and font size.
Source The teasers can be chosen manually or set automatically-dynamically by specific criteria.

  • Query – Automatic and dynamic option to showcase teasers.
  • Manual – Manually set content that is supposed to be displayed in the teaser
Content type Choice of Course, Article, Video and landing pages. Multiple can be chosen
Tags Choice of available tags. Multiple can be chosen
Channels Choice from available channels. Multiple can be chosen
Sorting Decide what should be the order of displayed items. Options include:

  • Latest: Sort by „Published at” date
  • Popular: Sort by the total amount of views a given content item had (in case of courses – views on course homepage)
  • Trending: Sort by the amount of views a given content item had in last 3 days
  • Featured: Sort by the „Position” parameter (manually set on each content item, in the right sidebar of the content item detail page)
Item count Sets how many items will be displayed in a sequence.
Offset Sets the starting offset of showed content. Useful i.e. when combining multiple „Item teasers” blocks on one page
Display “Show more” link Enable/disable „Show more” link
Custom URL parameters Add custom parameters to links generated in this block (Useful i.e. for adding UTM or other parameters to teaser URLs)
Layout Option of Slider or Grid view:

  • Slider: Generates a horizontal row of teasers that can be scrolled by swiping or using arrows below the block.
  • Grid: Generates a grid of teasers that will stack below each other depending on the available space on the screen.
Teaser size Defined the size of the teaser
Teaser Style
  • Standard: Description uder image
  • Cover: Description overlaying the image ( saves space )
Image placement Setting the placement of the teaser window, choice of right or left.
Teaser title size Choice of the size of font of the teasers module name.
Show teaser short description Display/hide content description
Show boarder around teaser Display/hide content border
Show item type in teaser Display/hide content type
Item infos Choice of multiple options of displaying additional information to the teaser’ed content like:
Add metadata (author, channel, rating, publish date, etc.).
⚠️ Note: Enabling too many metadata options may negatively impact layout.

Example of a teasers block with Slider layout and medium size

Example of a teasers block with grid layout and medium size

Example of a teasers block with Grid layout and tiny size

Teaser slider with description under the window

Teaser slider with description in the window