How to organize category pages into excerpt and thumbnail

Hi,

To do this, you can do something like this :

<div class="posts" style="display: block;">

    <div class="left-posts" {{{style="clear: left; float: left; width: 50%;"}}}>
        <h3 style="..."><?php the_title ?></h3>
        <div class="post-content" {{{style="float: left; vertical-align: top; border: 0px solid silver; margin-right: 5px;"}}}>
            <?php if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
    				echo '<div class="attachment-thumbnail">';
    				the_post_thumbnail('post-thumb', array('title' => trim(strip_tags( $attachment->post_title ))));
    				echo '</div>';
    				the_excerpt('Lire la suite de cet article &raquo;');
    				}
    				else
    				{
    				the_content('Lire la suite de cet article &raquo;');
    				}
    				?>
        </div>

    <div class="right-posts" {{{style="clear: none; float: right; width: 50%;"}}}>
        <h3 style="..."><?php the_title ?></h3>
        <div class="post-content" {{{style="float: left; vertical-align: top; border: 0px solid silver; margin-right: 5px;"}}}>
            <?php if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
    				echo '<div class="attachment-thumbnail">';
    				the_post_thumbnail('post-thumb', array('title' => trim(strip_tags( $attachment->post_title ))));
    				echo '</div>';
    				the_excerpt('Read more &raquo;');
    				}
    				else
    				{
    				the_content('Read more &raquo;');
    				}
    				?>
        </div>

</div>

As you can see, you have to truncate the 2 columns with 2 CSS rules (1 for the posts on the left and 1 for the posts on the right)
You will see which CSS attribute to create/update between the {{{…}}}

thanks for that ??

and this may be a stupid question, as im still new to WP. where do i insert this code or what page do i edit?

Thanks in advance again ??

This depends where you want to see this…

Home = in index.php
Single Post = in single.php
Single Category = in category.php
Page = in page.php

are you referring to this plugin?
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/

if the linked site is not yours, please post a link to your own site to illustrate what you have so far.

yes that is the plugin:
the page im experimenting on is at the following link:
https://roxompoker.com/trading-articles/

When i go into editor:
the only options that i have to edit which you listed above is home.php
the other pages are not there?

would this be due to the theme that i have installed?

just realised this old thread was still open, apologies in advance.
my new site is all up and functioning fine. i appreciate all the help from wordpress community, and will continue to use this site further.

cheers