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Quote:

Originally Posted by juggledad (Post 65107)

Things are a little different in 3.6.x did you follow the original instructions or the info from this

I believe I probably followed the original instructions - please can you repost that link - it's incomplete and giving me a 404 error.

thanks

PS: I did try to achieve the same thing with your template, but receive an error message on that too - could you tell me which would be the most correct way, knowing that I need the homepage and category lists to display in 2 columns if possible...

Thanks Larry,
now the link works I realise that I have already been to that post - and am working thru the error msg I received :)

1) did you create a home.php which was a copy of the template?
2) did you edit the home.php and change the '$posts_above_the_column = 0;' to the value you want?
3) comment out the next two lines - change them from

HTML Code:

        foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value ) 

                if ($key == 'posts_above_the_column') {$posts_above_the_column = $value;}

HTML Code:

//        foreach ( $my_custom_field as $key => $value ) 

//                if ($key == 'posts_above_the_column') {$posts_above_the_column = $value;}

4) at 'dashboard->settings->reading->Front page displays' set it to 'Your latest posts'
test it

Ahhh - it seems that I missed the 'comment out the two lines...'

it's working now - many thanks

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flynn (Post 5096)

Read the bottom of this post first on how to apply this to only the homepage

In index.php replace

PHP Code:


		
			
    <?php // The LOOP. Do this for all posts:

    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?>

(or similar, I am already in 3.3.3)

with

PHP Code:


		
			
    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">

    <?php $column = 1; ?>

    <?php // The LOOP. Do this for all posts:

    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $postcount++; ?> 



        <?php if ($column == 1) echo "<tr>"; ?>



        <td class="column<?php echo $col;?>" style="vertical-align: top">

and still in index.php replace

PHP Code:


		
			
    <?php // END of the LOOP

    endwhile; ?>

with

PHP Code:


		
			
        </td>

        

        <?php if ($column == 2) echo "</tr>"; (($column==1) ? $column=2 : $column=1); ?>

        

    <?php // END of the LOOP

    endwhile; ?> 

</table>

And at Theme Options -> Posts or Excerpts
choose "Only Excerpts" everywhere

Or, to limit this to the homepage make a copy of index.php as home.php, apply the above edits in home.php instead of index.php and upload home.php to the theme's directory /wp-content/themes/atahualpa332/, and set Theme Options -> Posts or Excerpts -> Posts or excerpts on HOME page? to "Only Excerpts"

is this still possible in 3.6.7 ? with making home.php and edit the code there ? so when new version comes home.php will stay ?

There is a thread in the Gold Forums tutorials showing how to do this