Dynamic Showcases

The left column lists one card per layout with a mini preview rendered from neutral example content - the rail is a layout catalog, deliberately independent of your live data (the big preview shows the real records). Click a card to switch; the active layout is outlined.

The large center preview, rendered by the same engine that inserts the layers, over a checkerboard so transparent backgrounds are visible.

Overlays the current document behind the preview (with the showcase background hidden), so you can judge the composition against what is already on the canvas.

Bottom-left of the dialog: how many records were loaded and from where ("6 products, live from your site", "6 items, from pasted data"), plus loading and error states.

Inserts the composition as a named group of editable layers, or replaces the group in place (keeping its stacking position) when you came in through Edit.

Live products with name, image, price, sale price and discount, rating from real reviews, category, short description, SKU and stock status.

Published posts with title, featured image, excerpt, date and category.

Every public post type of the site (pages, portfolios, events, listings...) appears in the dropdown and is treated like posts: title, featured image, excerpt, date, category.

Approved WooCommerce product reviews and/or post comments as testimonial records: author, star rating, quote text, date and the reviewed product. E-mail addresses never leave the server.

Site users as team records: display name, role, bio, avatar and published-post count. Logins and e-mail addresses are never exposed.

Paste any RSS or Atom URL and the studio analyses its structure server-side: podcast feeds deliver episode covers and durations (shown as chips), YouTube channel feeds their video thumbnails, blog feeds their images. Individual JSON APIs work too - a web-radio now-playing endpoint, a headless CMS, any custom API: the server finds the record set (or treats a single object as one record), flattens nested values to dot paths, and mapping rows appear under the URL so you assign Title, Image, Price, Description, Category and Date to your fields - auto-detected in English and German, correctable by hand. A price mapping makes the rows product-shaped. The URL and mapping are saved with the graphic, so Refresh and dynamic templates re-pull the source; feeds are cached briefly (JSON two minutes, feeds fifteen) and fetched through WordPress with unsafe-URL rejection.

Rows pasted straight from Excel, Google Sheets or a CSV file; see the Pasted data section below.

The text area for raw rows. Delimiter (tab, comma or semicolon) is detected from the first line; quoted fields survive embedded commas.

On by default. Off treats every row as data and names the columns Column 1, Column 2...

Five dropdowns bind record fields to your columns. Auto-detected from the header names; adjust any of them and the preview re-renders.

Product cards in a grid: image, name, rating stars, price with struck regular price, and a sale badge on discounted items.

One hero product left at full height, compact rows with thumb, name and price stacked right.

Menu-style rows: thumbnail, name and description left, price right, hairline separators.

Discount-first cards: the percentage is the hero element, price below.

Ranked rows with a big accent number, thumb, name, description and price, ideal with the Best selling sort.

Two tall cards side by side with category chip, rating and price, for A-versus-B graphics.

Post cards in a grid: featured image, category chip, title and date.

One big story card left (image, chip, title, excerpt, date), compact story rows right.

Numbered ranking rows with thumb, title and meta line, the "most read this month" classic.

Magazine table-of-contents rows: ghost index number, title, excerpt.

Testimonial cards: star rating, quote, author line with an initials disc (or their avatar), and the reviewed product.

Full-width quote rows: stars and quote left, author block right.

Portrait cards: avatar (with a colored initials disc as fallback), name, role chip and bio.

Compact people rows: avatar disc, name and role left, bio right.

Repeat YOUR OWN design as the tile: build a card in the normal editor with variables like {{wc.name}}, {{wc.price}} or {{post.title}}, save it via File, then Save as Dynamic Template, and pick it in the Card section. The studio clones the card per record, scales it into the grid (the cell aspect follows your card), fills in each record’s values and hides elements whose value is empty - a discount label only appears on discounted products. A "Create starter card" button inserts a pre-wired example card to style. Editing the card template later updates every showcase that uses it on the next refresh. Available for EVERY source: products, posts, feeds and APIs use the standard variables, and reviews/team additionally offer semantic variables under the "Showcase records" picker group (review author, review text, rating, team role, bio and more) - the review author or team name also arrives as {{post.title}}, the avatar as {{post.featured}}. Coming from a page builder? This is the same idea as a loop template (Elementor) or a repeater (ACF): one card design that repeats per record, just rendered as a graphic.

How many records to pull. The slider maximum always equals the ACTIVE layout’s capacity, so nothing is ever silently dropped - switching layouts adjusts the range.

Two ways to choose content. Latest by filter describes a query (category, order, search, stock filters) that re-runs on every refresh. Hand-picked lets you search and click exactly the entries you want - they appear in pick order, numbered chips remove them again, and the selection is saved with the graphic.

The category-like taxonomy of the chosen post type: product categories for products, blog categories for posts, the first hierarchical taxonomy for other types.

Newest first, Oldest first, A to Z, Recently updated; products add Best rated, Best selling (all time), Best selling (7 days) (real sales from the last week via the WooCommerce analytics data) and price sorting in both directions.

A keyword filter over the records.

Products only: restricts the query to items currently on sale.

Products only: restricts the query to items in stock.

Reviews only: product reviews, post comments, or both.

Reviews only: all ratings, 3 stars and up, 4 stars and up, or only 5 stars. Comments carry no rating and drop out once a minimum is set.

Reviews only: newest first or best rated first.

Show or hide all price blocks, including struck regular prices.

Show or hide the discount badges on product cards.

Show or hide star rows on product and review cards.

Show or hide category chips and role chips.

Show or hide short descriptions, excerpts and bios.

Show or hide date lines on post and review cards.

Auto, 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns for the grid layouts; Auto picks by item count.

Three text lines composed around the grid; each becomes its own editable text layer.

Writes a short header and subhead from the records currently on screen, using the editor’s own AI proxy. Optional; nothing depends on it.

Fourteen complete palette-and-font worlds: Clean, Editorial, Midnight, Bloom, Forest, Mono, Noir, Festive, Lux, Ocean, Sunset, Lavender, Slate and Terra.

Resolves the accent from the active brand kit (document kit first, then the site kit).

Pick which kit supplies the colors when the site has several; Site default follows the document.

A custom accent color; the Auto button returns to the brand or preset accent.

A custom background color; Auto returns to the preset background.

Drops the background layer entirely so the showcase sits on whatever is behind it.

Corner-radius factor from 0 percent (square) to 200 percent of the preset rounding.

Gutter density from 60 to 160 percent: tighter or airier grids without changing the layout.

Full font pickers (brand, custom, system, editor and Google families) overriding the preset’s pairing.

One click in the canvas or layers-panel context menu: the saved query runs again and the cards are replaced in place. New products, posts or reviews appear; the position you dragged the group to is kept.

During dynamic-content resolution (Preview with Post, automations, dynamic images) the showcase rebuilds from live data automatically, at the size it was designed at.

If a refresh returns no records (source offline, filter too narrow), the existing cards stay; a batch run is never broken by an empty query.