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Anchor Point

Anchor Point
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AnchorPoint is one stack that takes account of most of your anchor link requirements in a RapidWeaver built website. First and foremost it can create invisible anchors in webpages. To compliment this functionality, a simple configuration is offered for you to make anchor links without needing HTML Code. A third configuration exists to modify page navigation links with anchors, so that these too can navigate users to particular parts of webpages.

BannerStack

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Predominantly intended for use with ThemeFlood RapidWeaver themes featuring a FreeStyle banner container, the BannerStack provides a powerful solution for generating attractive webpage headers and banners to grab the attention of your site visitors. BannerStack starts with a static image. You then add layers to the stack; which can comprise of styled text, HTML code, markdown, images, video or other stacks. Each layer can be sized and positioned on the canvas. The finished result is a fully responsive header or banner that can combine multiple content types. - Note, will not work with Foundry.

Better Float

Better Float
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AnchorPoint is one stack that takes account of most of your anchor link requirements in a RapidWeaver built website. First and foremost it can create invisible anchors in webpages. To compliment this functionality, a simple configuration is offered for you to make anchor links without needing HTML Code. A third configuration exists to modify page navigation links with anchors, so that these too can navigate users to particular parts of webpages.

Builder

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Builder is an innovative stack that makes it possible to build your own basic stack elements. It was inspired by the excellent DesignerContent plugin in concrete5. By using Builder, you can build your own stack elements with code snippets from sources like CodeCanyon, Bootstrap, CSS Tricks, StackOverflow or JS-Fiddle; comprising of HTML, CSS and Javascript markup. These self-built stacks can then be duplicated on a page.

Curtains

Curtains - Free

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A simple, free stack that creates the illusion of opening curtain drapes or shower curtains, as a webpage loads. This could be a useful stack to use in more informal websites, where you want to display a brief line of text; followed by a gradient or image curtain effect. The curtain drapes can comprise of a CSS gradient, dragged and dropped images or warehoused images. The speed of the effect and text are fully customisable. The addition of optional cookie tracking lets you display the curtains effect only once to a user.

Note: I removed Curtains from this particular web page because it was so annoying.

Cutout

Cutout - Free

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An image float stack unlike any other! CutOut uses the new CSS 'shape-outside' property to apply attractive text wrapping effects around left or right floating images. Wrapping shapes can include circles (default), ellipses, insets and more complex polygons. This is a special effect, growing in popularity, which many web designers are deploying in more and more websites. A perfect finishing-touch for product photography and personal profile images.

A square image is added and is made into a circle with text flowed around it.

DropCMS

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DropCMS can take text files, images or PDFs hosted on your own web server and embed them into the webpage. If you or a client has FTP access to the directory containing the files, then it becomes instantly feasible to edit the contents of those files - all without buying or setting up complex CMS software. And if a file is deleted, DropCMS can either display alternative stacks or display no content at all. This makes DropCMS perfect for 'hot swappable' content you want shown on a website.

Embed

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Use our free embed stack to safely embed HTML5 audio, HTML5 video, iFramed content, single warehoused images, PDF files, plain text or a directory of images. Embed cuts-out the requirement for any complicated code. It instead uses common HTML5 tags, which work reliably in all modern web browsers for embedding different content types. Responsive scaling is applied to content types like audio, video and images. Embed stack uses valid HTML markup and is optimised for search engines.

Expander

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Expander hides and reveals blocks of content using only 9 lines of vanilla Javascript! So you can do-away with the idea of pulling-in 200 KB or more of cryptic code and oversized libraries. Expander is perfectly suited if you want to display a summary, and then have a larger description or details shown. Expander will happily work with styled text, HTML code, markdown and images.

Expiry

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Expiry uses PHP code to fetch the date from your web server. It then compares that date and time with the date entered in the stack settings. This provides a conditional test to either display content before a certain date or after a certain date. By using PHP, content inside the Expiry stack is only displayed when the criteria is met, and can't be seen by search engines or normal site visitors the rest of the time. Unlike client-side Javascript solutions, you can't easily manipulate or hack the code to force content to display at other times!

ExtraContentPlus

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As the name suggests; this stack is an extended version of the normal ExtraContent stack, with the addition of several extremely useful features for power users! ExtraContent Plus helps keep your workspace in RapidWeaver neatly organised, and includes some special markup to improve ExtraContent performance and provide a safety-net in rare instances where users arrive at your website without Javascript support. ExtraContent Plus works with RapidWeaver 5 and above. It is compatible with a majority of third-party addon themes (including all ThemeFlood designs).

Fadein

Fadein - Free

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The FadeIn stack enables you to have a block of content (like text or images) fade-in on page load. It's a very simple and lightweight stack, with just the bare-minimum of features and settings. FadeIn can help you make a good introductory effect at the top of pages. Because FadeIn uses jQuery Javascript, the fade-in effect will work reliably across all major web browsers and devices. The image below will fade in (10000 setting-slow) when the page loads. Otherwise default settings are used.

Filter

Filter - An advanced stack permitting the filtering and sorting of multiple items within a webpage; combining both categories and keywords together into a single stack. Purchased "Free" on July 21, 2020. Hamish uses this stack in his searchable Stack site at https://hamish.com/rwstacks/.

FileMan

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Derived from the simple PHP file manager plugin, FileMan is a free stack to provide a basic login and file management interface on your RapidWeaver website. This stack is absolutely perfect for use in instances like providing a client with access to login and manage their photos in ProGallery / RefinedSlider or for management of MP3 files in PlayLister. Fileman has a multitude of innovative, potential uses and works brilliantly well with many of our stacks.

FileTree

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This stack uses a relative path to a directory on your web server. It converts the resulting directory / file list into an interactive file tree. Just like a file browser on a computer, visitors to your website are able to drill-down through multiple levels of directories to browse files. You can configure FileTree to open files within the browser window, force files to download or connect FileTree to TopBox for instant lightbox support. Plus each time you add or remove files on the web server, FileTree updates without needing any input via RapidWeaver. A great little file browsing solution.

Font Stack

FontStack

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FontStack has proven to be one of the most successful font-embed solutions provided for RapidWeaver. With this stack, you can easily fetch any-one of the 800+ web fonts from the Google Web Fonts service and apply them to headings and content within your pages. Embedded web fonts give you the ability to break away from the normal and often restricting list of web-safe font faces, and provide the possibility to explore all sorts of attractive font alternatives. Plus you can be assured that your fonts will display correctly on a wide variety of different web browsers.

FreeStyle2

FreeStyle
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Built exclusively for ThemeFlood theme customers, FreeStyle is by far one of the most feature-rich and sophisticated theme banner and header stacks available for RapidWeaver today. With the FreeStyle stack, you can effortlessly embed static images, banners, sliders, maps, video and various other content seamlessly into theme banners and headers. FreeStyle saves you time and money. Build professional, eye-catching theme banners every time.

FullScreen

FullScreen
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HTML5 continues to deliver some really cool features, for the benefit of both end users and developers alike. One of these recently additions is full screen mode. The FullScreen stack leverages this new technology, by providing a method to send content full-screen in modern web browsers. It works with various content types, including text, images and video. FullScreen makes it very easy to add full-screen content support to your web pages, without needing to touch any of the complicated Javascript or HTML code behind.

Ghost Buttons

GhostButtons
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Who you gonna to call-to-action? GhostButtons! This free stack is all you need for creating gorgeous ghost-effect buttons that can be used in website call-to-actions. GhostButtons would be ideal for tasks like triggering a TopBox lightbox or presenting contact buttons. GhostButtons uses standardised HTML link markup for maximum accessibility. You are free to place GhostButtons anywhere on your webpage, including within areas like theme ExtraContent containers. Pure HTML + CSS.

GlobalSearch

GlobalSearch
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A search stack you can place globally on multiple pages of a website. The basic premise of GlobalSearch is to create a stylish search box that can send keywords to through to your main search stack (like SimpleSearch, DuckSearch, RapidSearch or Indexer). However it's certainly possible to use custom URLs and send search queries to many other search providers, including external searches on other websites.

GraphicStack

GraphicStack
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Promising small file sizes, infinite scalability, search-ability and retina display optimisation as standard; it's no surprise that web designers and developers are getting very excited about SVG (scalable vector graphic) files as a major component in modern websites. SVG works at any screen resolution and is therefore perfect for simple artwork, graphics, illustrations and charts. More and more software is now capable of exporting SVG files and web browser support is edging very close towards 100%. Our GraphicStack does as the name suggests and makes it simple to quickly get scalable vector graphic files embedded into your webpages; without the need for complicated code or expensive plugins.

HeadCount

Headcount
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This PHP based stack for RapidWeaver adds a simple hit counter capability to webpages. It was originally coded in 2005 and has been rewritten for newer versions of PHP and carefully repackaged as a convenient drag-and-drop stack element. HeadCount could be a good solution if you only care to know how many times a webpage has been viewed. HeadCount purposefully foregoes measuring lots of extravagant metrics. It doesn't slow-down your webpages with bloated code and it certainly does not engage in any intrusive tracking or targeted advertising. Because no user-identifiable data is ever collected by HeadCount about your website users, you don't need opt-in consent popups for it either.

Hotspots

Hotspots - Free

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A fully-responsive image map stack, which lets you setup clickable areas over an image. The HotSpots stack puts emphasis on flexibility and ease of setup. An unlimited number of hotspot regions can be created over an image; with links to page anchors, website pages, external websites or downloads. The individual 'hotspots' can be customised with text, a border or a simple background fill. This stack is perfectly suited in a variety of situations where you want to deploy simple image maps that scale to fit different screen sizes, without breakage.

Hotspots builds responsive image maps. It's a little tedious to produce quadrant percentages and enter into the HotSpots form by trial & error. Need to eyeball the resulting coordinates. 4 sets of coordinates supplied with the stack. There is an additional 1st set which doesn't appear to be used. Typing in a word before the closing anchor tag will add a descriptive word to the clickable quadrant.

Linkbox

Linkbox - Free

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The laws of HTML dictate that you cannot put block items (like stacks) inside inline elements (like links). The result of ignoring this advice is invalid source code and a page destined to failure. So we built the LinkBox stack instead. This simple stack element solves the previous problems by grouping one or more stacks together inside a block. Then a standard HTML link tag is used; which is stretched over the content. The end result is a collection of one or more stacks with a single link applied. Simple, reliable and very fast to setup. It solves this age-old problem perfectly.

Modally

Modally
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This stack creates quick modal popup windows in pure HTML, CSS and Javascript. Useful to display important messages or to get confirmation from the user. The lack of any libraries or frontend frameworks means that each popup weighs less-than 3KB! Perhaps the most unique feature of this popup stack is that you have complete, 100% access, to the entire codebase. Meaning you can use Modally as it is, or practice your coding skills and play with editing some of its code.

Options

Options - Free

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Fairly straightforward Options pull-down menu. Title is hidden when pulled down. Styled Text.

QuickColumns

QuickColumns
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This basic stack takes a block of written content and splits it effortlessly into multiple, equal-height responsive columns, using the power of CSS. No complicated Flash, messy HTML or heavy Javascript code is used. This results in beautifully fluid columns, which load almost instantly. On old and obsolete web browsers, the columns safely degrade back to a single column; and the same with print / PDF output too. You can safely use multiple QuickColumn stacks on the same webpage, to create attractive and impactful webpage designs to stand the test of time.

Readmore - Free - Questionable

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The purpose of this simple stack is to show a summary of text (teaser), followed by ellipses and a 'read more' button. A perfect solution for providing blocks of written content that can be easily expanded and shrunk by the end user, by clicking a link or button. ReadMore stacks can be placed within the normal page flow or a theme ExtraContent container. Their minimalist appearance make them particularly well-suited for use in ThemeFlood themes.

Note: Appears to need Themeflood (non-Foundry) theme to work (doesn't work with Foundry Theme)

Rollfade

Rollfade - Free

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A very simple little stack element which allows you to adjust opacity of text or images on mouseover (rollover). Newer web browsers will change the amount of opacity using a subtle fading transitional effect. By adjusting the static and hovered opacity amounts, you can have content reduce in opacity or increase in opacity, on rollover. RollFade is a useful stack for many different tasks, including content blocks and image collages.

This text should be effected by a mouse rollover.

RuleStack

RuleStack
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Horizontal rules are a great addition to almost any website. They help divide blocks of content up into smaller blocks; which ultimately improves content clarity and overall page presentation. Unlike normal horizontal rules, our brilliant RuleStack combines lines with attractive Font Awesome icons. Lots of customisable settings are provided; empowering you to create beautiful horizontal line artwork. Completed horizontal rules work with all newer web browsers, are retina display optimised, fully responsive and will not add extra weight to pages. Print and PDF friendly too.

Shady

Shady - Free

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Just a really simple stack for quickly applying attractive box shadow effects on blocks of content within your webpages. This shadow stack is all about ease of setup and fast deployment. Shady is built for Stacks 3 and is perfect compliment for ThemeFlood theme designs. The generated shadow effects are responsive and work with all major web browsers and devices. Additionally we automatically hide the shadow effects on print and PDF output. Shady has no dependency on any graphics, Javascript or complicated server-side code; this stack uses pure CSS and HTML markup to accomplish shadows that are retina display optimised.
"Normal" Shady Stack with inset shadow.

uTube

uTube - Free

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The uTube stack makes it super-easy to embed YouTube video content in your website, without having to touch any embed code. Simply drag and drop a uTube stack into your page. In the stack settings, enter the unique ID for the video (available from the video URL). As a bonus, the uTube stack will attempt to scale all video content responsively. It supports both Flash and HTML5 video playback. Works in all major web browsers, plus most iOS and Android devices.

Zoomy

Zoomu
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An extremely simple stack that makes it possible to zoom (magnify) images. Zoomy is able to handle images you drag-and-drop into RapidWeaver or 'warehoused' images stored online. Zooming can be configured to occur on an image using mouseover, clicking or grabbing. Easy to setup, compatible with lots of different web browsers and most importantly - it's fully mobile responsive.

Galleries

Liquid Gallery

Liquid Gallery

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A beautiful, versatile and responsive image slider; featuring gorgeous 'flowing' animation effects of a cinematic quality. Included animation effects include blinds, curtains and mosaics; which are hard to find in other sliders. LiquidGallery lazy-loads content (for faster loading) and is able to use dragged-and-dropped or warehoused images. Optional caption content and image links improve the usefulness of this slider even further. Minimal settings ensure LiquidGallery is both quick and simple to setup; even for complete novice users. This is a slideshow stack you will fall in love with! Perfect for travel / tourism websites, real estate listings, impactful product showcases, news websites and photographic portfolios.

Pro Gallery

Pro Gallery
This is probably one of the most sophisticated gallery stacks available for RapidWeaver. ProGallery can use images added via RapidWeaver, or it can link to a directory of images on your web server, or alternatively you can give it a spreadsheet CSV list of images and titles to display. ProGallery generates an adaptive grid of thumbnail images, with optional titles and mouseover effects. Clicking or tapping an image reveals it inside a flexible lightbox. As well as images, ProGallery can handle HTML5 video, iFrames, YouTube and Vimeo content too!

Swipe Gallery

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SwipeGallery replaces the former Viewr stack by StackManiac. This new stack will let you effortlessly create a responsive grid of thumbnail images; sourced locally or from a warehouse location. Clicking or tapping a thumbnail image reveals it fullscreen, within a responsive lightbox. As the name suggests, users on touch-based devices (like smartphones and tablets) can swipe through your gallery of images. In edit mode, images can be dragged and arranged into any order. SwipeGallery is extremely easy to setup and contains lots of useful style and colour settings.

Utilities

Builder

Builder

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Builder is an innovative stack that makes it possible to build your own basic stack elements. It was inspired by the excellent DesignerContent plugin in concrete5. By using Builder, you can build your own stack elements with code snippets from sources like CodeCanyon, Bootstrap, CSS Tricks, StackOverflow or JS-Fiddle; comprising of HTML, CSS and Javascript markup. These self-built stacks can then be duplicated on a page.

DropCMS

DropCMS
DropCMS can take text files, images or PDFs hosted on your own web server and embed them into the webpage. If you or a client has FTP access to the directory containing the files, then it becomes instantly feasible to edit the contents of those files - all without buying or setting up complex CMS software. And if a file is deleted, DropCMS can either display alternative stacks or display no content at all. This makes DropCMS perfect for 'hot swappable' content you want shown on a website.