The Multicolumn section makes it possible for you to add a nice section with for example USPs with icons anywhere within your theme.
To activate this section you first have to add the section to your page. This can be done in a few small steps.
1) Click on 'add section' which can be found in your left sidebar
2) Scroll down, or search for 'Multicolumn', then click on Multicolumn
3) Done, your 'Multicolumn' section is added.
General settings
The general settings contains the settings for the styling and layout of the 'Icon with text blocks' section.
Simply click on the 'section' to open the settings.
On the right sidebar, the following settings will show
Columns per row:
Set the amount of columns per row, maximum is set on 4.
Heading position:
Configure the position of the heading text. You can choose between left and center.
Headings:
Heading size:
Select the size of the first and second heading from a range of small to extra large.
Enable custom styling:
You can enable this checkbox to overwrite the heading color scheme and font weight.
Heading font:
Choose the font family for your headings.
Text:
Fill in the subtitle for the section. Don't want to show a title? Simply leave the field empty!
Alignment columns:
Set the alignment of the columns, do you want them aligned to the left or center.
Heading size columns:
What heading size do you want the columns to have? When you choose for "Extra large", the size of the description will also be a bit larger than normal.
You can column heading color schemes and font sizes from this section.
Spacing
Bottom spacing desktop/mobile:
Set the spacing on the bottom for desktop and mobile.
That way you will get the amount of whitespace below the element you want. The default for desktop is 50px and the default for mobile is 30px.
How to configure the multicolumn and change the columns?
By default, there are 4 blocks added, you can edit them, remove them or add more blocks.
1. Editing the blocks
To edit the blocks you simply click on the block you want to edit in your sidebar on the left of your screen.
After you clicked the block, on the right of your screen the following sidebar will open.
First off, you can choose an 'Icon' that will fit with your USP/text. Don't want to use a preconfigured icon? You can always upload a 'Custom image'.
The recommended size of this custom image would be 110x110px. Make sure to use a .png file to get a transparant background!
You can upload a custom image for dark mode as well. So everything looks great when you're in the dark mode.
Image height:
Using a custom image? Set the height for the image here!
Heading:
Simply put in the title of your block, for this example we're going to use: 'Ordered before 4PM? Shipped today!'
In Next theme you have an option to have 2 headings per column as well.
Text:
In the text field you can fill in more text to reinforce the USP. For this example we're going to use: 'Fast and reliably shipping, order now!'
Button label:
Set the text for the button
Link:
Set the link for the column
Button color scheme:
If a label is set, which color scheme do you want to give it?
Show link instead of button:
Check this if you want to use a normal textlink instead of a button.
2. How to remove a block?
Don't want to use 4 blocks? But you want to use 3? You can always remove the blocks one by one to fit in your needs.
To remove the blocks you simply click on the block you want to remove in your sidebar on the left of your screen.
After you clicked the block, on the right of your screen the sidebar will open.
On the bottom left of this sidebar, the following button 'Remove block' shows.
Simply click on this button and your block will be deleted.