Special Template!!!!

Yes, though you’ll probably find it easier with a plugin like this one rather than trying to do it with multiple loops.

tnx for the fast reply – i’m looking over it right now

I’m back – can someone give me an example of a wordpress blog that looks similar to the example i have in the second post? if possible… tnx again

You can make your WP site look like what you have, if you have the knowledge, You would wrap the loop and use various plugins. Get the CSS down first, then wrap the loop around it.

I’m still working on my site to get it complete, but I have a vaguely similar design:

https://reviews.sekhu.net

tnx for the reply – i’m waiting to see what u can realise ?? i’m not so good as a wp-theme author ??

the stylesheet is not to hard to create, but the code of the wp-theme is harder… ufff – maybe in the future this will be simplified.

Have you checked The Loop in Action from the WordPress Codex documentation site? There are a lot of really good examples on using the loop that might help you get a better handle on the process while you’re “waiting”. And creating the stylesheet might be a little harder than you imagine….a lot of work you’ve set up for yourself.

I haven’t used coldforged’s plugin (thanks for your great work on the others though ?? on a couple of my themes, but I’ve achieved a similar effect of controlling the categories displayed in an area. I implement it using rewind_post, divs, and repeating The Loop if needed.
As a novice at PHP/WP, I think hard part (a wee bit harder than a table free template) would be setting the queries to give you only the last/last five posts for some categories. I’m sure that can be done by passing values to query_post (I’ve done it with first 10).

I’m really to interested to see the progress of this case, as I’m trying to manipulate wordpress to do the same things. Through the Loop tutorials, I understand the basics of displaying posts from specific categories… however, I don’t understand how to display them horizontaly as in:

————Category 1 ———— Category 2 ———— Category 3————
————-story———————story——————–story—————–

Regards,
mlrtist

Just to let you guys know I’ve chosen a non-WP route to achieve this. To be honest I found using the loop in such a complex design rather difficult – not impossible, but very messy. I found using TXP to achieve the same result 100 times faster – you still need to understand the structure and such, but it manages the content so much faster and management is a helluva lot easier.

I still use WP for my blog, which I love it for – out of the box blogging breeze, but for something more complex I find it confusing that people still recommend WP as CMS and suggest it’s easy when it isn’t.

My suggestion would be if you want to stick with WP, create the css first – get that on the screen and then start adding the loop one section at a time. Get one part of the loop working properly. Go one box at a time. Start with one box, and get the loop running in that. Then start on a second box with a second loop, get that working alongside the first loop. And so on.

I spent months with WP in this regard with little result but a css design and that was thanks to Root, who’s also helped me build the structural template. Here’s my WIP so far in TXP. I’m sure some clever folks could do this in seconds in WP but I found this path easier. The site is still WIP but it took me less than a week to get up and running, building templates css etc. https://www.sekhu.net/txpattern/

One the loop becomes easier to understand so anyone can use it fluidly is when creating multiple blocks of individual content will become easier I think. Slow but surely.

after a long time of no posting in this topic, has anyone make a site like in my example above?

I never did it ??

This is actually pretty easy to do I think… at least I think.

I recently put together a new template that runs the loop four times. In your case you’d need it run six times which is definitely possible.

I’d read the codex sections on Multiple Loops. If you need more advice after that I’d be glad to help. A setup like this would be alot of fun to put together.

Here’s tutorial to similar case and the demo.