brantz88

Got it – changed content to excerpt in the index.php file – thanks,
Doug

I found this code – do I add it in the index.php file within the default themes dir?

<?php if(is_single()) { ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<?php } ?>

I’m still trying to get this to work.

I’ve followed some of the instructions and created a new template to select called arc-cont.php and was able to take the side bar out by modifying the header which I copied and pasted into arc-cont.php. Then I copied some code out of archive.php and pasted it into the file. It displays everything but the posts. So, how do I get the loop part to work? It seems like it just works for files called single.php and archive.php – how do I get arc-cont.php to get into the loop? Can’t I simply add a loop statement in the file or do I have to change a template somewhere else outside of Themes? I’m sure this can be done – they talk about category-6.php etc. in the templates area so do I have to name the file a specific title to be in the loop?

Thanks,
Doug

ok I’ll try. Basically I would like to use the same template as the monthly archive but make it shore the last 3 recent posts and use wide margin without the sidebar.

Doug

The home static page will be the homepage in wordpress.

The second page – category summary page that I wish to create will not be the main or first page. It will simply be a page and it will be accessed when someone clicks on the news link at faa.appstate.edu.

Does that help?

Doug

That does sound confusing. I would like to keep the static Home page as is on the wordpress site. Then I would like to add a page that will have a list of categories with 3 summary post limit for each category using the wide width and no sidebar. This new page will be linked to from our college site.

So basically I would like to create a new page that will use a template that allows what I have discribed above. Is this possible and or is there a plug-in that will work for this?

Thanks,
Doug

I should clear up my request. I’m not interested in the CSS wrapper of the news page site I listed, I just need the same type of format shown in the site to show up in wordpress page. Thought there might be a plugin for this – like there is for the static page?

Thanks again,
Doug

Worked like a charm – editing the header.php was all I needed. Thanks again for the awesome support.

Doug

Ok – thanks.

Doug

Everything is working great – but need to understand why the background shading is not working for side bar in single.php

Thanks again for all the help.

Doug

I used this code to add the list to each page.

Find this in sidebar.php

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>

Change it to:

<?php get_links_list(); ?>
<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>

Still looking how to set the background color on the sidebar when it shows up in single.php

Thanks,
Doug

That seemed to work – but the shaded background for the sidebar is missing. I’ll look at the sidebar.php file.

Thanks,
Doug

I might just try editing the single.php and archive.php files in the default theme.

Using this info below from your link:

* Templates previously single-column reset to the ‘narrowcolumn’ id.

In each “primary” template (i.e. a template that incorporates get_header(), get_footer()), make sure this:

<div id=”content” class=”widecolumn”>

is this:

<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>

* <?php get_sidebar(); ?> added to those templates which lacked it.

Should be obvious which ones those are, eh? Just place it above <?php get_footer(); ?>

* Reference in header.php to kubrickbgwide.jpg removed.

That might do the trick?

Doug

I’ve modified some of the sidebar code to show feed_images – so will I have to modify this again after using the All-sidebar edition?

Thanks again for the quick response.

Doug

For some reason the titles of all our posts are links to the full post so when it shows an excerpt you click on the title of the post and it takes you to the single post with full content.

When I first set this up I made several categories for and I noticed that when I clicked on a category you get an archive view of that category with full posts and that was too much info so I edited the archive.php file (with help of course from this support site) to display the_excerpts in the archive view. Sorry this didn’t work for you.