WP Theme: News Time

  • Hi all!

    Just finished up a 4-column theme for WP 1.5+ called News Time.

    It has 3 main columns where the posts go – you can select the order to be:
    -) left to right then repeat, or
    -) 3 categories, one for each column, or
    -) equally posted, first the left col, then middle, then right

    The fourth column on the right is for search, advertising, links and so on. There is a README.txt that comes with the release that explains it.

    You can see it in action on my test blog and a working copy here, and a relevant post found on my blog with the download link.

    Thank you,
    Jbbrwcky

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  • sorry I totally forgot I’d asked you something here… I changed the code – and this is what I changed it to:
    <div class=”post-middle”>
    <?php
    the_content(“Read the rest of ” . the_title(”, ”, false) . ” »”);
    ?>
    </div>

    and it worked just as I’d hoped… now I have to figure out if I prefer it that way… I think the original intent is better ??

    alright so let me ask a different question… if I want my excerpts to be twice the length that they are in the original theme, where would I change that? thanks so much

    How can I define the number of posts displayed in especific column?

    Ex: Column1: 1post, Column2: 1post, Column3: 4posts.

    Sorry, I’m not english…

    Thank’s

    Thread Starter jbbrwcky

    (@jbbrwcky)

    Manon – the excerpt is defined as the first 120 words, this is the default (and only) return value for the_excerpt() As far as I know there isn’t a way to change it, unless one of the WP gurus/coders here can tell you how to alter it.

    Myst – you cannot set the number of posts PER column, only the maximum amount of posts in any column ($column_max)

    Great theme! I downloaded 1.1 but it is missing the stylesheet. Is there a different download area for you theme? The plugin manager said the stylesheet is missing I can see the style folder but apparently there is nothing inside it.

    Thanks,

    chuck

    Thanks for this great theme!

    I have a minor suggestion: Why don’t you include all the common stuff from index.php, post-single.php, category.php, page.php, searchform.php etc. into the header and footer files?

    These lines can go into the header.php from:
    <div id=”rap”>
    to:
    <div id=”content” class=”colone”>

    And these lines can go into the footer.php from:
    </div> <!– end #content, .colone –>
    to:
    <div class=”spacer”> </div>

    This will make things very convenient for making changes to the Navigation links or including stuff in the header!

    And…some questions!

    My titles are not displaying in full on the homepage or on the post page – how do I make the titles complete at both places?

    And, could you tell me how to put the search box in the header as it is on your site at balancednews?

    Thread Starter jbbrwcky

    (@jbbrwcky)

    Hi Soeeydo, the next version will compile the separate pieces into one file, I realized by mistake on the last version and promised myself it would go into 1.2.

    I just took a look at your page, you seemed to have fixed the titles showing. I didn’t know that was a problem (or that they were truncated). And you got the search box in too.

    Sorry for the delay, I haven’t checked here for a while, been busy.

    Jbbrwcky

    jessechina

    (@jessechina)

    hehe..
    Nice 4-column theme.

    —-
    https://jesse.blogs-china.com/

    I love 3 column theme, simply because it has more space to arrange my stuff.

    https://www.oneandhalf.com

    my current theme is 2 column, as you can see it is quite a mess there.

    Does News Time 1.1 work on WordPress 2?

    I had installed News Time 1.0, but didn’t use it precisely because I need a wide box for my lead article.

    Then I downloaded 1.1 and sent it to the theme folder, but it never appeared on my presentation page.

    any one have this theme copy i am not able to access his website

    I found a copy of it here:
    https://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/news-time-theme/
    And a website using it here:
    https://www.balancednewsblog.com/

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