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Below is the history of ACME Ltd - eight entries in one collection, typed in once in the admin. Every display on this page reads those same eight entries. Each is one line of markup, and changing an entry changes all eight at once.
Table
Search, sort by any column, page through, choose the columns. The default when you write nothing else.
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="table" fields="title,date,era,staff,status" sort="date" order="asc" /]
Cards
A grid of cards, titled from the field you name.
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="cards" columns="4" title-field="title" fields="date,summary" /]
Date: 1962-04-02
Summary: Albert Whitfield rents one room by the River Don and starts forging bevel-edge chisels by hand. Six a day, sold to joiners he knows by name.
Date: 1974-09-16
Summary: ACME's first plane: cast body, Sheffield steel iron, a lever cap you can adjust without a screwdriver. Still the best seller fifty years on.
Date: 1988-03-01
Summary: Forty staff and a proper machine shop in a former cutlery works. Grinding, heat treatment and assembly under one roof for the first time.
Date: 1997-02-10
Summary: Forty-eight pages, posted to 6,000 workshops. Orders by phone and fax, dispatched from Sheffield within two days.
Date: 2009-10-05
Summary: The first cordless range: one 18 V battery that fits every drill, driver and sander ACME makes. Old batteries still fit today's tools.
Date: 2016-09-05
Summary: Four apprentices a year, two days a week at college and three at the bench. Most of the grinding shop started here.
Date: 2021-01-18
Summary: Every tool, spare and blade on the web, with stock you can see and next-day dispatch. The catalogue lives on as a yearly print run.
Date: 2027-06-01
Summary: Room for a sharpening service and a training bench open to customers. Planning permission granted; fitting out next spring.
List
The same entries, one after another. Good for a sidebar or a long page.
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="list" title-field="title" fields="date,era" /]
1962-04-02
Forge years
1974-09-16
Forge years
1988-03-01
Kelham Island
1997-02-10
Kelham Island
2009-10-05
Kelham Island
2016-09-05
Kelham Island
2021-01-18
Online
2027-06-01
Online
Accordion
Titles you can open one at a time - handy for FAQs, policies and anything long.
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="accordion" title-field="title" body-field="summary" /]
Albert Whitfield rents one room by the River Don and starts forging bevel-edge chisels by hand. Six a day, sold to joiners he knows by name.
ACME's first plane: cast body, Sheffield steel iron, a lever cap you can adjust without a screwdriver. Still the best seller fifty years on.
Forty staff and a proper machine shop in a former cutlery works. Grinding, heat treatment and assembly under one roof for the first time.
Forty-eight pages, posted to 6,000 workshops. Orders by phone and fax, dispatched from Sheffield within two days.
The first cordless range: one 18 V battery that fits every drill, driver and sander ACME makes. Old batteries still fit today's tools.
Four apprentices a year, two days a week at college and three at the bench. Most of the grinding shop started here.
Every tool, spare and blade on the web, with stock you can see and next-day dispatch. The catalogue lives on as a yearly print run.
Room for a sharpening service and a training bench open to customers. Planning permission granted; fitting out next spring.
Timeline
Dates and a status per entry (done, under way, planned). The last one is still to come, so it shows as planned.
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="timeline" title-field="title" date-field="date"
status-field="status" body-field="summary" layout="centred" theme="modern" /]
Albert Whitfield rents one room by the River Don and starts forging bevel-edge chisels by hand. Six a day, sold to joiners he knows by name.
ACME's first plane: cast body, Sheffield steel iron, a lever cap you can adjust without a screwdriver. Still the best seller fifty years on.
Forty staff and a proper machine shop in a former cutlery works. Grinding, heat treatment and assembly under one roof for the first time.
Forty-eight pages, posted to 6,000 workshops. Orders by phone and fax, dispatched from Sheffield within two days.
The first cordless range: one 18 V battery that fits every drill, driver and sander ACME makes. Old batteries still fit today's tools.
Four apprentices a year, two days a week at college and three at the bench. Most of the grinding shop started here.
Every tool, spare and blade on the web, with stock you can see and next-day dispatch. The catalogue lives on as a yearly print run.
Room for a sharpening service and a training bench open to customers. Planning permission granted; fitting out next spring.
Carousel
One slide per entry, with its photograph. It moves on by itself every five seconds.
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="carousel" image-field="image" title-field="title"
body-field="summary" autoplay="true" interval="5000" animation="fade" /]
List group
A compact, numbered list - the look for steps, rankings and short news.
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="listgroup" variant="numbered" title-field="title" body-field="summary" /]
Your own design
When none of the seven fits, write a block: a small HTML template with a placeholder for each field. Every entry is drawn through it. This one adds the photo, formats the date as a month and year, and shows the staff count.
<article class="sc-ms">
<img class="sc-ms-photo" src="{{image}}" alt="">
<p class="sc-ms-date">{{date:MMMM YYYY}} · {{era}}</p>
<h3>{{title}}</h3>
<p>{{summary}}</p>
<p class="sc-ms-staff">{{staff}} staff</p>
</article>
[collection slug="acme-milestones" display="block" block="acme-milestone" sort="date" order="asc" /]
April 1962 · Forge years
A forge on Neepsend Lane
Albert Whitfield rents one room by the River Don and starts forging bevel-edge chisels by hand. Six a day, sold to joiners he knows by name.
1 staff
September 1974 · Forge years
The No. 4 smoothing plane
ACME's first plane: cast body, Sheffield steel iron, a lever cap you can adjust without a screwdriver. Still the best seller fifty years on.
9 staff
March 1988 · Kelham Island
Moving to Kelham Island
Forty staff and a proper machine shop in a former cutlery works. Grinding, heat treatment and assembly under one roof for the first time.
40 staff
February 1997 · Kelham Island
The first catalogue
Forty-eight pages, posted to 6,000 workshops. Orders by phone and fax, dispatched from Sheffield within two days.
52 staff
October 2009 · Kelham Island
ACME Volt 18
The first cordless range: one 18 V battery that fits every drill, driver and sander ACME makes. Old batteries still fit today's tools.
71 staff
September 2016 · Kelham Island
An apprenticeship of our own
Four apprentices a year, two days a week at college and three at the bench. Most of the grinding shop started here.
84 staff
January 2021 · Online
The online shop
Every tool, spare and blade on the web, with stock you can see and next-day dispatch. The catalogue lives on as a yearly print run.
90 staff
June 2027 · Online
A second workshop in Attercliffe
Room for a sharpening service and a training bench open to customers. Planning permission granted; fitting out next spring.
110 staff
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