Feedback and some questions and suggestions (mixed)

[Sebastian C.]

Sebastian C.

November 2, 2019 at 4:48 am

Hello Kadence team,
Hello Ben,

First, I want to thank you for your awesome themes and plugins. I used virtue for years for my freelancer site, now bought a lifetime membership to use Ascend for my company. Before I bought it, I tested and read a lot about Astra, Themify, Divi, Avada and some theme-forest themes. And as you see, you are the winner! 🙂

But… starting to import your example ascend themes, I also want to give some suggestions and also some questions.

1. Since Gutenberg is a good and new standard, please add more Gutenberg/Blocks examples without use of page builder. As you have your own great row-design-blocks, I think you don’t need it and it would be much better for us (user) to make use of your examples. I found some, but more would be great!

2. You use all the time (or most of the time) your Ascend “Homepage Design” settings in the theme options, to design the Home site. I personally, don’t like it. Since Gutenberg is here (I think) you should use Page content and your own block. Every Feature Virtue and Ascend have out of “theme options Homepage” settings should be available with your block plugin. That would be great and much more flexible.
Disadvantages of using theme options for home page: Change your theme, home page is gone.
And also you don’t have a WYSIWYG feeling when design a page out of theme options.
For me, I would much more like when your example home pages would be designed with Gutenberg Blocks. Or perhaps show both, the Gutenberg home page style could be another site in the examples, don’t have to be the home site. So you can show both possibilities to make the same design.

3. Most of your page examples are for artists and shops. Would be great to see more corporate identity pages for something like, IT Services, Games, much more technical corporate style and with things like partner-banner, job pages, company history, team, service explanations. I know we can do it with Ascend and Virtue of course, but would be cool to find some examples, because your examples look really, really great and give us great ideas!

Following are more kind of questions, but also some feedback included:
1. Slider Pro in Gutenberg:
I can manage to add your slider pro as Gutenberg block with shortcode. But this lacks the availability of WYSIWYG and see directly the design. Is there a way to add a slider-pro-generated-slider in Gutenberg as block and see it directly? If not, would be nice in the future.

2. Flip Icon Box:
I don’t find Flip Icon Box as Gutenberg block. (example here, middle of the page *Login to see link
Is a shortcode for this available? Would be nice to see it in Gutenberg as Block. (Or do I was to blin to find it?)

3. Three triangle as separator:
You used the design of three triangle as separator for example here: *Login to see link I see it is a page builder feature, but you have your own Gutenberg blocks separator, but you have only one triangle in your own separator. Would be nice to see three triangles in yours, because page builder is not needed anymore. Can I do it with custom CSS already to make 3 triangles out of one triangle with your block separator?

4. How to add full width rows on a boxed content page?
Your did it here: (the row with “Single Column Layout”)
*Login to see link

I also see the CSS in the page wich makes it to full width:
width: 100vw; */
position: relative;
/* left: 50%; */
/* right: 50%; */
/* margin-left: -50vw; */
/* margin-right: -50vw;

But how did you make it with your “Row Layout” block?
Custom CSS? How did you add it? Because I did not get managed to configure such a full width row with your “Row Layout” block. Even when I import the same example and look in the setting, I do not find the option for it. 🙁

5. Animated Text:
Is animated Text only available as shortcode? I did not find it in your Gutenberg blocks. It is a nice feature of your themes, you be available as Block to have it in Gutenberg to be able to better see what your get (WYSIWYG).

6. Flippable images:
I found fliappable images (Products on Sale) for example here on your pages: *Login to see link
Is this feature available in Gutenberg without use of WooCommerce as block or per shortcode?

7. Question about animations:
I saw that you support animations with your Blocks Plugin, that is great. Just a question for that.
I like for example the following enfold example *Login to see link , that there are animations on scroll. (side note: But I don’t like themes which are bringing its own builder.)
Just a question: I think with some hand work and using your row-block and assign animations, can design something similar in your theme and with your blocks and your animations. Or do you see big limitations?
As example the testimonials on the bottom of the page. Will I be able to do such a animations to the face-images with custom CSS to add such an animation on scroll to your testimonials-block?
(If possible, would be nice if you could provide a CSS example to add “animations on scroll” on elements which does not support it out of the box.)

Another good example of many animations on scroll:
*Login to see link
–> Would be really nice to see such an example page in your Ascend example in the future! I think you have most of the features (even with some custom CSS) available!

Hope my post is not too long and questions and topics make sense. 🙂

Best regards and thanks a lot!
Sebastian

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