Custom grid elements

I would like to create a custom grid element but im running into some difficulties.

Maybe some of these questions should be asked to the Visual Composer staff, however maybe you can help me too:

– how do i add the category tag on a custom grid element?
– can i add the (newspaper 6) review rating as an item on a custom grid element?

(this one is even less pertinent probably)

– when using the post excerpt and title in a custom grid element, how do i gain control over the excerpt’s lenght (in words or characthers) and on the excerpt’s and title’s font?

Thank you in advance for anything you can help me with

Alessandro

P.S. Alternatively, is it possible to tweak existing grid elements?

Thank you for the reply.

A couple more things: I would like to add the review score on my custom grid element. The VS staff told me that if it can be done its through the theme’s meta info. I haven’t found any information around, can you tell me if it’s possible and if so, how to do it?

The second thing is the disappearance of the “…” at the end of the excerpt. I asked the VS staff and they have given me this answer:

3) By default our excerpt has a delimiter (…). Looks like your theme is modifying and removing it. You can contact the theme author and get rid of the code which is removing the delimiter.

Can you help?

Thanks

Alessandro

Thank you Alin,

I will leave the review scores out for the moment. About the code to remove to make the 3 dots appear on the excerpts, how should i go about updating the code?

Straight from the editor on the WP Dashboard or from the file on local, and then updating it?

Am i gonna have to tweak that code paragraph everytime i upgrade the theme?

Thank you

Alessandro