Question on theme set-up – Indexhibit like theme

Sorry, can’t help you. But I’m very interested if it works!

I am already half on the way – when completely ready I will make the theme downloadable. So you can use it.

For now I have managed to display the posts in the sidebar by pasting the loop in there. If you click on a category it also rightfully selects only the posts from that category in the sidebar.
My problem now is that when I click on a post it directs me to a single post page and the sidebar displays only that single post.The funny thing is that I have no single.php page… So I don’t understand why it does this.

I want to keep all the posts in the sidebar but just have the content of the active post displayed too. This must be pretty easy – any ideas on how yo do this?

Okay, I have managed so that the single post page displays the posts from that same category in the sidebar. But still this is not what it should do.

Ultimately I want it to work so:
– when on index.php -> display all posts in sidebar, when you click on a post it shows the post in the right part of the screen and it retains the list of ALL the posts in the sidebar

– when in category archive -> display all posts of the category in the sidebar, when clicking on a post it shows the posts in the right part of the screen and it retains the list of the posts of that category in the sidebar

This seems really simple behaviour, but it seems unachievable with WordPress. I am beginning to think that I just need to use a simple javascript show hide so that I don’t need to jump to the single.php page, because that is what troubles the whole thing.
Any ideas, comments, suggestions?

Still can’t help you. But maybe you find a theme with exactly the function you need. just get the code and see how it’s done.

Or check: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development

Yeah, I checked the theme development and many more pages before posting here. I hardcoded already 3 themes for this job but it just seems a functionality that doesn’t work that well with WordPress. Still I need to get the job done soon…

Anyone suggestions?

Ultimately I want it to work so:
– when on index.php -> display all posts in sidebar, when you click on a post it shows the post in the right part of the screen and it retains the list of ALL the posts in the sidebar

– when in category archive -> display all posts of the category in the sidebar, when clicking on a post it shows the posts in the right part of the screen and it retains the list of the posts of that category in the sidebar

It’s like an archieve. This should be simple. Maybe you have to define the function? Don’t know. But it should be something like in every standard wordpress theme. I mean, every theme has these functions.

Okay, I got it to work. I used some detours but it works fine. I will try to explain shortly what I did.

Note: In my theme I use three categories, but I if you have many more categories this could get complex. Still the methodology would work and I hope this sets other people on the right track.

Using the option of variable sidebar content I set up three sidebars, each for one category. Using a custom query I defined what category should be displayed:

<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 100, 'orderby'=> 'post_date', 'category' => 4 );
$postslist = get_posts( $args );
foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?>

Then I set up three different category templates (these are called when clicking on a category), again, one for each category and I used this code to get the correct sidebar:
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-cat-yourcat.php');?>

Then on my single.php I added this conditional statement:

<?php
if ( is_category('yourcat') || @$_REQUEST['cat'] == yourcatID ) {
	include 'sidebar-cat-yourcat.php';
} elseif ( is_category('yourcat') || @$_REQUEST['cat'] == yourcatID ) {
	include 'sidebar-cat-yourcat.php';
} elseif ( is_category('yourcat') || @$_REQUEST['cat'] == yourcatID ) {
	include 'sidebar-cat-yourcat.php';
} else {
	include 'sidebar.php';
}
?>

And finally I added this tiny code to the title attribute of the post data after the custom query in ALL the sidebars:
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>?cat=yourcatID" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?>
note the ?cat=ourcatID which displays the correct url after visiting a category archive and then clicking on a post. It links to the single.php and retains the sidebar selection by calling the correct sidebar using this url:
https://localhost:8888/yoursite/?p=11?cat=5

I hope this makes it clear to you and other people. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

I don’t really get it, but sounds cool.

And now we want to see the theme in action!

Nothing?