Update Research Group Template to Block v2

[Agos95]

Prerequisites

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Proposal

I am updating the Research Group template to v2 block system.
In this template there is the slider widget, which is not yet ported to the v2 version.
I alredy modify it to work with the block system (essentially it was a simple replace of $block.Params.* with $block.*).
However, I was wandering if something more should be done in order to align it with the other blocks.

Otherwise, I will do a pull request as soon as I finish to check the template.

Motivation and context

The Academic and Minimal template have alredy beeen ported to the v2 block system, so I think that the other ones should be ported too, since the future version of Wowchemy will switch from the widget page to the landing one. In addition, a user in Discord asked for the v2 version of the Research Group template.

[Agos95]

The other possibility is to uniform the background parameter of each slide as desribed in the homepage documentation.
In this way, we have a common interface for the background (both for a block background and the slide backgrouns); the downside is that users need to change they own code when updating to the new version.

[gcushen]

The other possibility is to uniform the background parameter of each slide as desribed in the homepage documentation. In this way, we have a common interface for the background (both for a block background and the slide backgrouns); the downside is that users need to change they own code when updating to the new version.

Yes, if we port the Slider block to the v2 collection, then let's attempt to align the parameters and data structure with those used elsewhere in the latest version. There will be some options which won't be appropriate in this scenario, for example, we plan to only support background images and background colors/gradients in slides and not support videos or effects like parallax.

Having consistent parameters and structure should make the experience simpler and more intuitive for new users.

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