Announcing the ExtraContent Stacks Plugin

On February 18th Isaiah of YourHead Software announced the release of Stacks 1.0, a brilliant RapidWeaver plugin for easy yet exquisite page layouts. It's possibly one of the most advanced and powerful page layout tools we've seen for RapidWeaver to date. But Isaiah also released the API for Stacks to allow developers like myself to hook into the power of Stacks and create our own custom stacks to add to the Stacks library.

Having recently addressed concerns of whether or not accessing ExtraContent areas in ExtraContent enabled themes was difficult to do with little fragments of code I seized the opportunity to explore the new Stacks API to find a better way. That's how I came up with the ExtraContent Stacks Plugin, a custom Stacks library item that allows you o utlize ExtraContent without snippets or code. Just drag and drop it into your page like any other stack and build on top of it. From the comfort of the Stacks interface you can choose the ExtraContent area you wish to access and then build your your layout inside of it. Everything inside the ExtraContent stack will render in the ExtraContent area you chose. Watch this movie to see it in action.

Just like ExtraContent, the ExtraContent Stacks plugin is free and open source. If you are a developer who has embraced ExtraContent in your themes then feel free to distribute this custom Stack as an added bonus.

Learn more about the ExtraContent Stacks plugin here, watch the tutorial here, download the ExtraContent Stacks plugin here and get YourHead Softwares Stacks for RapidWeaver.