Hire Essential Grid Developers

Essential Grid is a premium WordPress plugin developed by ThemePunch (the same company behind Slider Revolution). It creates filterable, responsive grid layouts for WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, WooCommerce products, Flickr photos, YouTube videos, and custom content. Grids include hover effects, lightbox integration, skin customisation, and AJAX filtering without page reload.

Like Slider Revolution, Essential Grid is bundled with hundreds of premium ThemeForest themes, resulting in widespread installation on sites where the owner may not have specifically chosen it. This bundled distribution means Essential Grid frequently appears in WordPress projects that need developer attention – grids that break after theme updates, performance issues from Essential Grid’s JavaScript loading, or customisation requirements beyond the plugin’s skin editor.

Essential Grid stores grid content and settings in its own database tables. Grid skins (visual styles) are configured through a visual skin editor. Custom items (content that is not from WordPress post types) are created directly in Essential Grid. The plugin integrates with WooCommerce to display products with pricing and cart buttons, and with various WordPress gallery and media plugins. How To Use Slider Revolution Without Making Site Slow.

Essential Grid development work typically involves:

• Setting up a portfolio or post grid – configuring a grid to display WordPress posts or custom post type entries with specific filtering, hover effects, and layout.
• WooCommerce product grid – displaying WooCommerce products in an Essential Grid with filtering by category and hover effects showing pricing and add-to-cart.
• Custom grid skin development – creating or modifying Essential Grid skins to match a specific design that the default skins do not achieve.
• Fixing Essential Grid after a theme update – resolving CSS conflicts or JavaScript errors that appeared after a theme update that changed the environment the grid depends on.
• Performance optimisation – reducing Essential Grid’s impact on page load speed by limiting which assets load on pages without a grid.
• Essential Grid migration – moving Essential Grid content to a more maintainable solution when the plugin is causing more problems than it solves.

Essential Grid is a specific plugin with its own skin editor, content management system, and configuration interface. Look for developers who have configured Essential Grid specifically – its skin editor and content aliasing system have a learning curve that affects how long work takes.

For custom skin work, ask whether they use Essential Grid’s built-in skin editor or whether they override skins with custom CSS. The skin editor is the correct approach for maintaining upgradability; CSS overrides outside the plugin can conflict with plugin updates.

For performance work, ask how they approach Essential Grid’s asset loading. Essential Grid loads JavaScript and CSS on every page by default. Limiting this to pages where grids actually appear requires specific configuration that varies by hosting setup.

Common Essential Grid problems: How To Use Slider Revolution Without Making Site Slow.

• Grid not displaying after theme update – a CSS conflict from the theme update is overriding Essential Grid’s styles, or a JavaScript conflict is preventing the grid from initialising. Check the browser console for errors and test with the theme’s latest update applied to a staging environment.
• Filtering not working (grid items not hiding/showing) – a JavaScript conflict is preventing Essential Grid’s filter JavaScript from running. Check the browser console for errors and test with other plugins disabled.
• WooCommerce products not appearing in the grid – the grid’s post source is not configured for WooCommerce products, or the products are not published. Check the grid source settings and product publish status.
• Grid loading slowly – large unoptimised images in grid items, or Essential Grid loading all images at once rather than lazy loading. Enable lazy loading in Essential Grid settings and optimise grid item images.

Essential Grid updates through ThemePunch’s update system. Like Slider Revolution, when Essential Grid is bundled with a theme, updates come through the theme’s update channel rather than the WordPress plugin directory. Bundled updates may lag behind the current version, leaving known bugs unfixed until the theme developer releases an update.

Essential Grid database tables grow as custom items and skin configurations are added. These are not cleaned up automatically and accumulate over time. For sites where Essential Grid’s database footprint is a concern, periodic cleanup of unused skins and items is worthwhile.

When posting an Essential Grid project on Codeable, specify the Essential Grid version and describe what the grid should display and how it should behave. For bug fix projects, describe what broke and what changed before it broke. For new grid builds, include design references showing the desired layout and hover effects.