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Smart Grid

We 've created a beast

Latest release
15 May 2026

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Changelog
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v3.3.2 Breaking
Fixed
  • Ribbon labels never appeared unless the grid used spotlight in "above" mode
v3.3.1 Breaking
Changed
  • Ribbon tag-to-label map now accepts custom labels, not just the five presets.
v3.3.0 Breaking
Added
  • Ribbon labels on grid cards. A coloured label can be shown per card with five
  • Four positions, element-wide: corner top-left, corner top-right, side ribbon
  • Source coverage: manual cards (per-card label fields), ZOO and Joomla items
  • The label sits on the highest z-index (above the thumbnail, favourite heart
Changed
  • Test build for UI validation on a live site before final hand-off.
v3.0.8 Breaking
Security
  • SEC-2 (MEDIUM): added an SSRF guard (src/Http/YcUrlGuard) for the
  • SEC-4 (MEDIUM): com_ajax write actions (toggle, rating_set) now require a
v3.0.7 Breaking
Security
  • SEC-1 (HIGH): removed the insecure TLS retry fallback in the RSS / full-article
  • SEC-3 (MEDIUM): all @unserialize() calls now pass
v3.0.6 Breaking
Changed
  • Data tab / Manual items: the MANUAL ITEMS pointer now renders as one
v3.0.5 Breaking
Added
  • Data tab: choosing "Manual items" now shows a MANUAL ITEMS pointer
Fixed
  • ZOO extras / related links: the RSS feed URL coming from a ZOO text or
  • Media: stopping a playing YouTube card (e.g. by opening Spotify on
  • Media: stop logic now scopes from the clicked element instead of a
v3.0.4 Breaking
Added
  • The 26 user-facing UI strings that zoo-builder.js injects into the
Changed
  • The placeholder DETECTION constants in zoo-builder.js are deliberately
v3.0.3 Breaking
Added
  • Small-smartphone CSS tier (max-width 420px) for the Smart Grid and RSS
  • Touch-device tap targets per YC 7F (scoped to pointer:coarse, desktop
  • NOTICE.txt: manual data-subject request procedure (GDPR art. 15/17
Changed
  • The six v2.x console.log diagnostics in the frontend templates only
v3.0.2 Breaking
Added
  • de-DE / fr-FR / es-ES / it-IT machine-translation baselines for all 458

Smart Grid

One element. Four content sources. Eight social
platforms. Endless smug satisfaction.

Smart Grid is a YOOtheme Pro builder element that turns any page into a beautifully cohesive feed of cards— from your manually curated picks, your Joomla articles, your ZOO items, or the eight biggest social platforms on the internet. It pulls, it styles, it filters, it sorts, it favourites, it remembers, it embeds players, it animates spotlight cards, it does so many things we had to write this manual just to fit them all on the box.

Give every card a heart and a rating and watch your site finally remember the people who visit.

Start with the part nobody else gives you: a website that remembers people. Smart Grid puts a little heart on every card it displays. A visitor taps it to save that card - think of it like a bookmark or a wishlist — and from then on they can filter the whole page down to just the things they loved, in a single click. Add the built-in 5-star rating widget and they can score what they like too, the way you'd rate a film or a product online. Those ratings stick around, so you can finally see what your audience actually values — and if you use ZOO, the averages can write straight back into your content. No third-party service, no spreadsheet, no guesswork. Your site remembers, and your visitors feel seen.

So what goes on those cards? Whatever you want — and this is where jaws hit the floor. A YOOtheme Pro "element" is just a block you drag onto a page; Smart Grid is that block, except it can pull its cards from four completely different places. Hand-pick them one by one. Or point it at your Joomla articles and let it build the grid for you (it even notices a YouTube link inside an article and turns that card into a playable video). Or wire it into ZOO, the heavy-duty content app. Or — the showstopper — feed it live posts from eight social platforms at once: YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud and TikTok. You never touch a line of code. You pick a source from a dropdown and the cards appear.

From there it just keeps over-delivering. Twelve one-click layout presets mean it looks designed, not assembled. Cards flip to reveal more, spotlight tiers show off your best content, and media plays right on the card — with only one video or song ever playing at a time, so nothing talks over itself. Visitors filter by tag, search as they type, and page through smoothly. You can even earn from it: drop in Google ads, including native "in-feed" cards that blend into the grid instead of screaming "banner" — and a bonus RSS Feed element rides along in the same download for clean news feeds.

And it's built like grown-ups built it: it heals its own database tables, survives the cheapest shared hosting, shrugs off flaky APIs, and is properly security-hardened. It speaks six languages out of the box and installs from a single zip — no FTP, no cPanel, no phpMyAdmin. Drag it on, pick a source, pick a preset, and you're live before your coffee cools. You came for a grid. You're leaving with a site that remembers, rewards, and sells — quite possibly the most epic plugin you'll ever buy, and we say that with our whole chest.