Magazine Styled Category Archive Pages WordPress
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I need some help with a 3 magazine theme archive pages. The scenarios and layouts is below. Please help me figure out what the best and most efficient way is to do this. Thanks!
The layout has 2 div columns (left and right).
<strong>LAYOUT 1</strong>
[[LINK href="http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/2149/archive1.jpg"]]Layout 1[[/LINK]]
<strong>Green Area</strong>
Display the most recent post in category that has as image attached. I already have a theme function that checks this - getImg($post_id).
<strong>Blue Area</strong>
Display the three most recent posts in category with or without image attached but exclude the post displayed in the GREEN AREA. The first post with a different class.
<strong>Yellow Area</strong>
Continuation of BLUE AREA. The next post.
<strong>Red Area</strong>
Display the rest of the posts in category
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<strong>LAYOUT 2</strong>
[[LINK href="http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/4673/layout2.jpg"]]Layout 2[[/LINK]]
<strong>Blue Area</strong>
Display the two most recent posts in category. The first post with a different class.
<strong>Green Area</strong>
Display the most recent post in category that has as image attached. I already have a theme function that checks this - getImg($post_id). Exclude the posts displayed in the BLUE AREA.
<strong>Red Area</strong>
Display the next posts in category that has as image attached. I already have a theme function that checks this - getImg($post_id).
<strong>Yellow Area</strong>
Display the rest of the posts in category
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<strong>LAYOUT 3</strong>
[[LINK href="http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/8992/layout3z.jpg"]]Layout 3[[/LINK]]
<strong>Yellow Area</strong>
Display the most recent post in category that has as image attached. I already have a theme function that checks this - getImg($post_id).
<strong>Red Area</strong>
Display the five most recent posts in category with or without image attached but exclude the post displayed in the RED AREA.
<strong>Blue Area</strong>
Display the rest of the posts in category
Answers (2)
Kristin Falkner answers:
For the last example, or really modifying for any, it would be something like:
YELLOW AREA:
<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('cat=catID#here&showposts=1&whatever other info for your theme custom function to check if a post follows that'); while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); $do_not_duplicate[] = $post->ID; ?>
/*FORMATTING OF YELLOW AREA*/
<?php endwhile; ?>
RED AREA:
<?php query_posts('showposts=5'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if( in_array($post->ID, $do_not_duplicate) ) continue; ?>
/* FORMATTING OF RED AREA */
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
BLUE AREA:
<?php query_posts('cat=catID#here'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if( in_array($post->ID, $do_not_duplicate) ) continue; ?>
/* formatting of blue area */
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
