Summary Block for Portfolio

Hi all, 

I've been searching for a while to try and find any workaround to display my folio in the same way the summary block does for a blog. I hear rumours that it might be coming as an 8.0 feature, but have not heard anything concrete...

This and being able to disable portfolio sub-pages would be two MASSIVE improvements to the portfolio for Squarespace in my opinion. 

TLDR: Help me preview some folio sub-pages in a summary block, please!

Can you explain what you want users to be able to do? I don't fully understand your question but it may help if you can include a link to pages on your site explaining what you don't like, or mockups of what you'd like to achieve. 

Thanks for responding Paul, 

Essentially I'm hoping to get a dynamic feed on the home page that is created by the items in my folio's sub-pages. I have currently gotten around this by using a static, isolated gallery with links to each item to the portfolio sub-pages.  If I update the folio with a new sub-page (project), I have to manually add this to the isolated galleries on two different pages: (https://www.formationcreative.co.nz/) and (https://www.formationcreative.co.nz/graphic-design-services)

The summary block does this for blog posts, so I was surprised to find that it didn't cater for folio items too. 

Do you think that there is a way to trick the summary block into displaying items from the folio? 

Thanks @paul2009, 

Bummer. I was really hoping a fancy bit of code could trick the summary block into displaying the folio items. 

The blog layout isn't flexible enough for my needs—I've essentially built a mini page for each project with sections and various elements. So it looks like sticking with the old gallery is the way to go for now. 

At least I know definitely now. Fingers crossed the folios get a tickle-up in the next update. 

On 11/7/2023 at 8:26 AM, Formation_Creative said:

Thanks for responding Paul, 

Essentially I'm hoping to get a dynamic feed on the home page that is created by the items in my folio's sub-pages. I have currently gotten around this by using a static, isolated gallery with links to each item to the portfolio sub-pages.  If I update the folio with a new sub-page (project), I have to manually add this to the isolated galleries on two different pages: (https://www.formationcreative.co.nz/) and (https://www.formationcreative.co.nz/graphic-design-services)

The summary block does this for blog posts, so I was surprised to find that it didn't cater for folio items too. 

Do you think that there is a way to trick the summary block into displaying items from the folio? 

 

Exactly my problem too! Came up with the same workaround too 😁
But it is very very unpractical, especially if you create a website for a client which wants to add his content on his own. Please Squarespace have mercy and build the summary for portfolios!!! 🙏