vinmassaro

Thank you Otto!

Sasch9r,

Notice the big gaps between posts in IE6? Those are appearing because <h2 class="blogdate"> </h2> is being rendered. Opera and Firefox ignore the empty tags even though they are still there. Any way to get rid of the empty tags?

Thanks guys, using “the_excerpt” works well. How do I limit the number of posts that are loaded to a specific number?

So would you recommend that an excerpt is filled in for every news item and I include the excerpt? How does the excerpt get output?

using the_date instead of the_time worked perfectly. Is there a list of all of the options to shape how the output looks? I also want to limit the number of characters that are output per post.

Another thing, ??

How do I get it to print the date only once per day? Right now, it prints the date for every post. Ideally, it would print the date once then list each post for that day underneath.

Sach9r,

With your help and playing with the code, I think I have figured it out!

Sure, what I am doing is calling the blog items from a non-blog page. Right now, you can see I am calling the code in the right column, and for simplicity sake, I placed a red border on that class. You can see that only the first news item from that category is getting wrapped in the div. I want each of those posts to be in their own div so I can apply a hover to the class and get them to change background color when moused over. I also just noticed the date is only being applied to the first news item.

URL:
https://www.ny4ronpaul.com/dev/2col.php

Sach94r,
Thanks — I am having trouble getting that to load without an error, though.

I used the query function since I want to have more than 1 news feed on the same page, from different categories. If I delete every other instance of my code and use yours, I still get this error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected $

That worked, kinda. Now, it is putting ONLY the first news item in a div, but the news items after that do not have their own div.

Right now, it is taking all of the posts in that category and placing them in one big div. I want to place each POST in a div, so that I can set a hover color for the class and each news item will change color, not just the big container div that it is creating now.