A very customised homepage – help needed

  • Hi all, Im hoping for soem help yet again from the users here as I feel I have achieved so much with my wordpress theme, I just need to sort the homepage out and i’ll be golden!!

    my site is MovieBlogger and it will be a DVD review site.

    I want to customise my homepage so that it looks like this:
    (Or as close to it as possible Screenshot

    The column on the left will include just latest entries from my DVD Review category, and the column on the right will have all entires from all other categories.

    I woudl also like to be able to specify a small pic (ass seen in the screenshot, but I do not want this to show up in the actual post. I would also like to add a small caption that describes the post (and this also I woudl like to NOT show in the actual post)

    The last thing is the text at teh bottom that will show the category and the number of comments.

    Well that about all, basically my question is… is this possible???

    And if so any pointers would be greatfully recieved!!

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  • Thread Starter shorn

    (@shorn)

    Still desperately seeking help with this!!!
    Thanks

    The first thing is that it looks like you’re going to need a three column layout, whereas at present you only have a two column layout

    Here’s a couple of places that I already had in my notes that describe 3 column layouts – haven’t looked at them in much detail myself yet

    https://www.kingcosmonaut.de/journal/3col-layout/

    https://accessat.c-net.us/test/template-3col.html

    If this is really what you want, then you’re going to want two loops . The one in the left will have your DVD reviews, the one on the right will have all entries

    In the left one before the loop you could have <?php query_posts('category_name=dvd&order=DESC&showposts=4') ?> which will show the latest four posts

    In the right column before the loop you want code that willshow everything except the dvd category, which has (say) an id of 2. Change it to a minus 2 to exclude it, as below
    <?php query_posts(‘order=DESC&showposts=4&cat=-2’) ?>`

    So that’s a start!

    Thread Starter shorn

    (@shorn)

    OK, but at present my theme only has two columns, does this mean my theme will require a lot of reworking? because it would need to revert back to two columns for when a review is selected?

    Only on the front page, index.php (if that’s what youre using rather than a static page)

    It could be a lot of work, depending …. essentially you need to add a Div and float it to the left and in that add a loop. It all depends on your theme and how easy it is to take apart

    Thread Starter shorn

    (@shorn)

    OK, gotta get some kip now, thanks for the reply, i shall give this some more attention tomorrow.

    From what Im thinking at the moment, the process will be to

      1. Edit the index.php file to show three columns (Two columns being within the main contant area)
      2. Add loops as described above to each column
      3. Work on the layout and how to format the look of each posting
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