Building a loop skin as a separate template means leaving the page you are designing, saving, coming back and checking. For a small change that is a lot of round trips.
Inline editing lets you build the card inside the listing itself, seeing it against your real layout as you go.
Before You Start
- Edition: Pro — custom loop skins needs Nexter Blocks Pro.
- Block to enable: Post Listing, switched on under Nexter > Blocks in your WordPress dashboard.
- Enough posts to see the effect. A listing with three posts cannot show pagination, filtering or a second row.
- The loop skin basics are worth reading first.
Preview
Steps
- Select your Post Listing block.
- Switch it to a custom skin and choose to edit inline.
- Build the card in place, using dynamic values for the post fields.
- Watch it repeat across the listing as you work.
- Publish and check the real page.
How It Behaves
Inline editing is the same skin mechanism, edited in place rather than in a separate template.
- The result is the same as a saved skin. The difference is where you build it, not what it produces.
- It stays with this block. A skin built inline belongs to the listing you built it in, so it cannot be reused elsewhere the way a saved template can.
- Dynamic values behave identically, pulling from the post being rendered.
- You see it against your real page, which is the point — spacing and width decisions are much easier in context.
- Measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated: this stops working. The block still renders a plain list of posts, so there is no error to see — just the feature quietly missing.
Limitations
- Pro only — measured with Nexter Blocks Pro deactivated, the listing falls back to a plain rendering.
- It is not reusable. Building the same card inline on four pages means four copies to maintain. Use a saved skin instead — see create a custom loop skin.
- The editor gets busy. Editing a repeating template inside a repeating listing is visually confusing on a complex page.
- Copying it elsewhere copies the design, not the link, so later changes do not follow.
- You still own responsive behaviour and accessibility, as with any custom skin.
Troubleshooting
My changes are not repeating across the cards
You may be editing one rendered card rather than the skin. Make sure you are in the skin editing mode.
Every card shows identical text
The fields are static. Each field has to be a dynamic value pulling from the current post.
I want to use this skin on another page
An inline skin belongs to its block. Build it as a saved loop skin instead — see create a custom loop skin.
The editor is hard to work in
That is the trade-off of editing a repeating template in place. For anything complex, build it as a separate skin.
