Magazine-style multi-column front page
Hi. I would like to create a wordpress site that works similar to this one, where the posts on the front page (the blog page) are laid out in a funky-style grid, rather than in a regular, vertical list:
http://www.resilience.org/ Can I do this using Atahualpa? And would it be efficient? My guess is that if so, I would have to use Juggledad's multi-column template query thing. If so, before I start I'd like to know if this is worth my time. Or should I just find a theme that is already like the site above? I browsed the instructions for juggledad's query thing and it feels like a big learning curve. I'm willing to do it if this what it was meant to do, but if it will require a lot of tweaking beyond what juggledad's program was designed for, then maybe I'll use a different theme. Can anyone answer my question? Thanks! |
You could "build" a page with widget areas and then populate them using plugins like "List Category Posts" or I believe there are plugins for building pages in various ways.
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Two good ideas! Do you happen to know any plugins by name? Or should I search for "page builder" or something like that?
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Or, conversely, how do I add widget areas to the loop and have this appear only on the home page? You can't even add widget areas to the loop anymore I thought?
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I was thinking of adding widget areas to a page using a plugin like Allow PHP in Posts and Pages.
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Oh that looks like a very interesting plugin. But if I use it to add widget areas directly to a single page, will they appear in Appearance >> Widgets? (allowing me to actually put widgets inside of them)
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Sure enough. It didn't work. I installed the plugin, then I inserted the following code onto the page:
PHP Code:
What am I not understanding? Thanks. |
And yes, I put the proper php opening and closing short code tags around the code, as said in the plugin instructions.
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Per the plugin instructions you need to eliminate the opening and closing php tags so your code would look like...
PHP Code:
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Aha! Thanks, though I think I found a simpler solution. Basically, I activated the left sidebar and made it only visible on the home page, then I am using this fantastic plugin I just found called "Special Recent Posts." It's a widget that allows for customizable multi-column, filterable, thumbnail (or not) recent posts listings.
Here is my testing page... http://www.sferios.com/october2011/ But I may try your idea now too and see which is easier. Thanks again! |
Yours looks like a pretty neat solution. I'm going to take a look at that plugin.
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The Pro version is what lets you arrange them in columns. Then the real cool thing is that it allows you to assign a unique css ID each time you use the widget. So on my front page I have three instances of the widget (each row is an instant), and each has it's own css ID, so I can manipulate each row differently. Also each cell is given its own css ID, which is how I was able to stretch the first column in the second row (a 2-column row) to take up the width of two rows, and also remove the image from the second column of that row.
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I went to purchase the Pro version at CodeCanyon and found I had already bought it two times. Too many things rolling around in my head I guess.
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Loving it more and more. It makes it really easy to design a magazine-style front page.
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