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1. 

   Baudesign
   Member

   I am almost there, and would like to thank those who have helped me so far build my new child theme.

   Now, here is my problem: I am building a static "Front page" that will display, horizontally: a slideshow, then the latest two posts written, a sponsors' area, then 3 popular articles before the footer: http://www.mulibwanji.com/ma/

   "Presse & Reviews" will be my main blog page.

   I am trying to achieve, through functions, something like:

   if is_front_page(), then show the latest, and only the latest, two posts (I will style them differently later on thanks to the p1 and p2 classes generated by thematic).

   Not only I do not know how to create this function (I am so bad at php programming!), but from what I see, this code would have to be included in the page content, something I really do not want.

   Perhaps, one would have to remove the #content <div> before including the new one for the two articles. Not sure.

   If you can help, I am ready to Google a solution.

   Thanks

   Pat

   Posted 3 years ago #
2. 

   Baudesign
   Member

   Okay, here is a little update on my quest.

   1. I created a template file.
   2. In this template file, I included this code:

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: Diaporama
   */
   ?>
   <?php get_header() ?>
   
   <div id="container" class="feature">
     <div id="content">
       <div id="latest-two">
         <?php $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=2');
    		foreach($lastposts as $post) :
       	setup_postdata($post); ?>
         	<div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="<?php thematic_post_class() ?>">
           	<?php thematic_postheader(); ?>
           	<div class="entry-content">
             	<?php thematic_content(); ?>
             	<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'thematic') . '&after=</div>') ?>
           </div>
   
         </div><!-- .post -->
         <?php endforeach; ?>
       </div><!-- #latest-two -->
       <div id="sponsors">
       Sponsors
       </div><!-- #sponsors -->
       <div id="popular">
       Popular
       </div><!-- #popular -->
     </div>
     <!-- #content -->
   </div>
   <!-- #container .feature -->
   <?php get_footer() ?>

   It works... partially :-(

   If you look at the generated code, you notice that thematic is kept out of the loop: it does not generate any classe or any id, leaving me with no options for styling.

   Pff!

   Pat

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   Baudesign
   Member

   [Please disregard the post before as I updated a second too late]

   ...second update, for those who might be interested:

   <div id="latest-two">
         <?php
    $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=2');
    foreach($lastposts as $post) :
       setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
         <div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="<?php thematic_post_class() ?>">
           <?php thematic_postheader(); ?>
           <div class="entry-content">
             <?php thematic_content(); ?>
             <?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'thematic') . '&after=</div>') ?>
           </div>
           <?php thematic_postfooter(); ?>
         </div><!-- .post -->
         <?php endforeach; ?>
       </div><!-- #latest-two -->

   It seems to work so far. But the titles don't display as links. And the "read more" cut does not show.

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. 

   Tina
   Member

   Hi,

   I'm actually working on something that's similar. This modified code that I found posted in the forums (thanks to the Agricultural post), works on Thematic but I'm using a Child Theme so I'm not sure if this will work directly on yours:

   function latest_post() {
   
   	echo "<div id='newsgrab'>";
   		$posts_latest = get_posts("showposts=2");
   		if( $posts_latest ) {
           	foreach( $posts_latest as $post_n ) {
   			setup_postdata( $post_n );
   			echo '<h2><a href="';
   			 echo (get_permalink($post_n->ID));
   			  echo '" title="Permanent Link to ';
   			   echo (get_the_title($post_n->ID));
   			    echo '">' ;
   			     echo (get_the_title($post_n->ID));
   			      echo '</a></h2>';
   	the_content("Continue reading '" . the_title('', '', false) . "'");
   				}
   			}
   	echo "</div>";
   
   	}
   add_action ('thematic_indexloop','latest_post');

   I'm not sure how you would apply it to your code but you are missing "<a href" tags for you Titles to display as links.

   I'm not sure about read more, the same idea might apply.

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. 

   Baudesign
   Member

   @Tina,

   Your function does not work because it substitutes itself for the loop thematic_indexloop. The loop, as it is, when I browse the "Presse & Reviews" section is fine... for the moment.

   What I am trying to achieve is display, on the static "Front Page", the two latest articles (Posts) written in the blog, with a title link that links to the corresponding single page.

   Posted 3 years ago #
6. 

   Tina
   Member

   I'm sorry I didn't realise you were working on template file.

   I put this in in the functions.php and for me, it actually does work, but as I said I'm using the Gallery Child Theme.

   I hope you find your solution.

   Posted 3 years ago #
7. 

   Baudesign
   Member

   I found a way display the titles as permalinks, but I have the feeling that it is the wrong way:

   I copied and pasted the code found in the content-extension.php file, by adding this condition != is_page('accueil') like so:

   // Information in Post Header
   function my_thematic_postheader() {
       global $id, $post, $authordata;
   
       // Create $posteditlink
       $posteditlink .= '<a href="' . get_bloginfo('wpurl') . '/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=' . $id;
       $posteditlink .= '" title="' . __('Edit post', 'thematic') .'">';
       $posteditlink .= __('Edit', 'thematic') . '</a>';
       $posteditlink = apply_filters('thematic_postheader_posteditlink',$posteditlink); 
   
       if (is_single() || is_page() != is_page('accueil')) {
           $posttitle = '<h1 class="entry-title">' . get_the_title() . "</h1>\n";
       } elseif (is_404()) {
           $posttitle = '<h1 class="entry-title">' . __('Not Found', 'thematic') . "</h1>\n";
       } else {
   
   <-- bla bla bla bla bla -->
   
       echo apply_filters( 'my_thematic_postheader', $postheader ); // Filter to override default post header
   } // end my_thematic_postheader

   ...renaming thematic_postheader with my_thematic_postheader.

   Then in my template file:

   <div id="latest-two">
         <?php $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=2');
    		foreach($lastposts as $post) :
       	setup_postdata($post); ?>
         	<div id="post-<?php the_ID() ?>" class="<?php thematic_post_class() ?>">
           	<?php my_thematic_postheader(); ?>
           	<div class="entry-content">
             	<?php thematic_content(); ?>
             	<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' .__('Pages:', 'thematic') . '&after=</div>') ?>
           </div>
   
         </div><!-- .post -->
         <?php endforeach; ?>
       </div><!-- #latest-two -->

   There must be some way to simplify the function my_thematic_postheader

   Thanks for any tips.

   Posted 3 years ago #

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