Features
Architect is immensely powerful and flexible, with a huge number of features and always growing. This list is everything I could remember. Yes, there are so many features in Architect, even I forget sometimes what Architect can do!
Basic features
- All-in-one
- Sliders
- Grids
- Tabular
- Masonry
- Accordions
- Responsive design
- Device specific adaptive design
- Extensibility allows developers to add functionality through their own plugins
- Preset designs
- Dummy content
- Animation
- Fixed or fluid height and width
- Builtin support for more than 10 different content types
- Flexible content sorting
- Filter by categories, tags, custom taxonomies, dates and authors
- Built in styles editing including custom css.
- Display custom post types
- Display custom fields
- Display custom taxonomies
- Display any field from any table
- Override WP Gallery shortcode display with Blueprint of your own design
- Reusable Blueprints. No need to write for every usage.
- Export Blueprints for use on other sites
- Create your own Presets
- Set your own default styling
Content layout and control
- Drag and drop content layout editor
- Flexible and powerful controls of content layout
- Display featured images or videos
- For titles, add prefixes, linking, change wrapper tags and optional responsive font sizing
- Configurable meta fields using easy tags
- Meta fields allow shortcodes providing secure means to add extra functionality from other plugins or your own code.
- Date formating
- Hide specific author’s details
- Show author avatars
- Change excerpts length
- Customise “Read more” message
- Responsive font sizes at breakpoints
- Responsively scaling font sizes on titles and content
- Hide content at breakpoints
- Half a dozen image cropping options, including Focal Point cropping
- Optionally use embedded images when feature image not set
- Automatic retina images
- Optionally use dummy or specific filler images when featured image not set
- Limit image dimensions to save bandwidth
- Link images to post, image, lightbox, or specific URL
- Use custom lightbox
- Display image captions
- Trim excerpts by words, characters, paragraphs or to the more tag
- Insert additional content into content field after nth paragraph. Useful for automatically inserting ads into content.
- Use generic email address for specific user roles
Animation
- Use standard animate.css library
- Animate each whole content panel
- Animate individual content components
- Flexible animation options for fine tuning
Slider layout features
- Extensibility allows developers to add support for different slider engines
- Navigation controls can be bullets, titles, custom labels, numbers, thumbnails or none
- Set navigation to top, bottom, left or right of slideshow
- Set navigation to appear overlaid on slideshow or outside of it
- Control navigation alignment and sizing
- Optional slide pager on hover
- Fade or slide transitions
- Set slideshow to begin automatically
- Control transition durations and interval times of slides
- Infinite looping slideshows
- Height adaptive and pause on hover options
Grid layout features
- Pagination including built in support for WP PageNavi
- Easily control number of content panels across and with fluid or fixed width
- Control display of fixed width panels with CSS flexbox standard settings
Tabbed layout features
- Extensibility allows developers to add support for different slider engines
- Navigation controls can be bullets, titles, custom labels, numbers, thumbnails or none
- Set navigation to top, bottom, left or right of slideshow
- Set navigation to appear overlaid on slideshow or outside of it
- Control navigation alignment and sizing
- Fade transition
- Control transition durations of slides
- Infinite looping
- Height adaptive and pause on hover options
Tabular layout features
- Custom column titles
- Search
- Sorting
- Paginated
Masonry layout features
- Live sorting
- Live filtering
- Column or packed masonry layouts
- Pagination including built in support for WP PageNavi
- Easily control number of content panels across and with fluid or fixed width
Accordion layout features
- Option to close all on initial display
- Custom titles
Content sources
- Default (i.e. whatever WordPress would display for the current page)
- Posts with options to exclude specific posts
- Pages with options to exclude specific pages
- Dummy (Architect generates dummy content for you. Great for development stage.)
- Galleries – Can be specified in the Blueprint, galleries in WP posts or pages or GalleryPlus galleries
- SliderPlus slides
- NextGen galleries
- Snippets (Generic built in Architect content type)
- Testimonials (built in Architect content type)
- Showcases (built in Architect content type)
- Custom Post Types (any other post types added by other plugins, such as WooCommerce Products)
- RSS feeds
Images
- Multiple cropping options including focal point cropping, a unique feature of Pizazzwp plugins
- Filler images when no featured image
- Override WP Gallery shortcode display with Blueprint of your own design
- Use custom links per image. Requires the WP Gallery Custom Links plugin.
- Display captions
- Add copyright to generated images without affecting the original
- Disable right clicking and copying of images
- Set compression/quality of generated images
Blox specific
- Displays alternate titles
- Styling via Design Mode editor
Beaver Builder specific
- Extensive filtering overrides in the Beaver Architect module
- Extensive styling options in Beaver Architect module
- Custom overrides in Beaver Module
- Maps Extended module – that allows you to use any fields from any table for addresses
- Adaptive Sidebar module – can display different widget areas on different devices, or none at all
- Any Fields module – display any field from any table
Design
- Responsive layouts
- Responsive breakpoint font sizing
- Responsive fluid font sizing
- Device specific adaptive options
Developer
- Custom presets
- Shortcake support
- Create your own Content Sources
- Action hooks
- Template tag
- Extensive SysInfo page
Display methods
- Shortcodes
- Widgets
- Template tags
- Action hooks
- WP gallery shortcode
- Blox block
- Beaver Builder module
This document can be viewed online at: https://architect4wp.com/features/