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Any way yet to control the display order of custom fields?

For 3 columns of posts, check out the News Print theme:
https://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/wordpress-themes/

Read these pages if you haven’t already found them.
Template Changes – https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/wordpress-21-template-tag-and-function-changes/

codex for list categories – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories (mentioned in post above) and

codex for bookmarks – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_bookmarks

Southwest, if you’re still looking – Try replacing <?php get_links_list(); ?> with <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category='); ?>

Here is what I have done on talkjunkie.com to separate and call the categories and the link(bookmark) categories: On the left sidebar I’m using – <?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name& hide_empty=0&exclude=34,29,36,31,33,30,37,32,35& hierarchical=1& title_li=0'); ?></ul>

On the right sidebar I use – <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category=33,34,37,35'); ?>
<?php wp_list_bookmarks('category=30,31,32,36'); ?>

If anyone comes across a good explanation of why the category merge is an improvement, I’d love to read it.

Wish this was live for you to view, but it isn’t yet. JaneLittle suggested pretty much what I’m doing for an upcoming site. I took a 3 column theme (https://kenklaser.gaiastream.com/2005/02/10/new-template-for-wordpress-122/), which I also use for my talkjunkie.com site, and scooped out the loop. I then dropped in the NewsPrint loop code for the 3 columns of posts and changed the widths to percentages.

This creates a fluid 5 column. You have the three post columns inside left and right sidebars, with a full width header and footer. Easy enough even for me.

The News Print theme includes an order switch, with one option being arranging the post columns by categories created in WordPress. (1 category per column) This is part of the theme – no code change necessary.

I’ll be using the option that lets the posts flow in order, left to right, and then repeating below, with no separation of categories. (also no modifications)

Really all I’ve done is taken a three column layout https://kenklaser.gaiastream.com/2005/02/10/new-template-for-wordpress-122/ , and replace the loop code for the center column with the News Print loop code creating a 3 col. loop. I changed the fixed column widths of the News Print loop with percentage widths, creating a fluid 5 column. Mostly a cut and paste job and a little styling – no coding. I’m not a coder. This is for a front news page of a county level community site which will also include vbulletin, classifieds and more. I hope to be live in about a month.

News Print, found at https://www.theenglishguy.co.uk/news-print-theme/ is a four column theme using 3 columns for posts and does have a featured category which spans the other post columns at top. I suppose you might be able to eliminate the code that creates the third post column and adjust the column widths. There is also a way to arrange the columns by category. Here’s a link to a church using the theme. https://www.gcchapel.org/.

I’m experimenting with using the post column code inside a standard three column theme to create a five column (3 post columns inside left and right sidebars). I don’t have this site public yet, but it does work. In any event, the theme seems pretty flexible so far and might be an option for you.

I’m setting up something similar, but without including the sidebar(s). I’m just prominently displaying the links back to the main site pages at the top of the forum pages. https://www.talkjunkie.com