Cantrip's Links section is the simplest thing you can drop on a page: a row of buttons. Book Now, View Menu, Call Us, Visit Instagram. It's the section people reach for when they want a link-in-bio style block, or just a clean row of actions under a hero photo.
It has two settings that sit right next to each other and look like they work together. Layout gives you three choices: Row, Column, or Standard. Columns, right beside it, gives you Single Column, 2, 3, or 4. Pick a Layout, then also pick a Columns count, and it feels like you're dialing in something specific, like three columns of vertically stacked buttons.
That combination doesn't exist. The moment Columns is set to anything other than Single Column, the section switches to a grid and the Layout dropdown stops mattering, full stop. Row, Column, Standard: it doesn't matter which one you picked, a 3-column value renders the same grid either way. Layout only does anything while Columns is left on Single Column.
Nothing in the editor tells you this. Both fields sit in the same settings group, same size, same row, with no hint that one of them can silence the other. Set Layout to Column and Columns to 3, save it, and Cantrip stores both values without complaint. The page just won't look like either choice was fully honored: you get a 3-column grid, not a stack.
The fix is just knowing the actual rule. Leave Columns on Single Column when you want the Layout dropdown to do the work: a horizontal row, a vertical stack, or the standard flex layout. Reach for Columns only when you want a grid, and treat Layout as irrelevant the moment you do.
This section earns its keep on the kind of page a small business slaps together for a single link in a bio, or a QR code on a flyer: Book Now, View Menu, Directions, Call Us, in whatever order matters that week. If View Menu is one of those buttons, skip the PDF. Somebody standing outside your shop on three bars of signal will sit there waiting for a menu PDF to render on a five-year-old phone. Point it at an actual page instead and it's readable before they've put the phone back in their pocket.