Use Sections on the Starterkit "Album/Photography" page

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Hello,

I’m new into Kirby and the first time creating a site with Kirby. I’m currently using the “Starterkit” to get some hands-on experience.

Yesterday I played around with the Photography page with the “Album” Template from the Starterkit.
I want to use this page as Book collection and should be separated from each author.

Now I want to add some Section or Subheadlines for every book author. And below the related book cover of the author.

I dont have any idea how I can customize it on a easy way. Maybe somebody created something similar?

I’m also adding some attachment about my imagination how it has to look like.
Hint: I used the Chrome Developer Tool to change some HTML code as visualization/mookup :grinning:.

How it has to look like on the frontend and panel:

book_album_frontend_panel
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I’m happy for every help and support!

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Hi and welcome to the forum.

Hm, let’s say you have a page structure like this:

books/ 
  -- author-1
      -- book-1
      -- book-2
  -- author-2
      -- book-1
      -- book- 2

A display in the Panel like above wouldn’t really be possible out-of-the-box, because the number of sections would be dynamic, i.e. if you add an author, you would need a new row.

The only way to achieve that if you use PHP-based blueprints, similar to what is described in this cookbook recipe: Programmable blueprints | Kirby CMS, in combination with the Pagesdisplay plugin.