Post Count related formatting?

  • apolaine

    (@apolaine)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    I’m trying to set up a blog that auto formats posts based on their recency in the post-counts. So, the latest story would have ‘feature’ formatting, the next four would have ‘sub-feature’ and the next four probably just a one-line link.

    I know it’s probably possible to do this with custom keys, but I don’t really want to have to change all the metadata every time I add a new post. Is there a way to do this via the post count? I’m imagining in psuedo code:

    If (this post_num = latest post){

style it as a feature

}else if(this post_num > post_count - 4 & < latest post){

style it as a sub-feature

}else if ((this post_num > post_count - 8 & < post_count - 4){

style it as one liner

}else{

dump it in the archives/don't display on front page

}

    I’ve had a good search around and can only find the custom keys method, but it seems to me this should be possible to automate. Or is this a really clunky way of doing it?

    (Added info: I can hack around in PHP, especially given some example code, but I’m not that competent in it.)

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  • mendezki

    (@mendezki)

    16 years ago

    This thread might point you in the right direction.

    (I’m looking for an ‘if post is fourth, eight, twelfth.. andsoforth solution, found an article about changing the >=4 in <?php if($post_count >= 4) : ?> to something like 1+n, but can’t find it anymore. If anyone has a suggestion.. : )

    mendezki

    (@mendezki)

    16 years ago

    In relation to the between brackets in my previous reply:

    <?php if($post_count == n+5) : ?>

    would allow doing something with every nth (in this case 4th) post, e.g. setting some css selector.

    Thread Starter apolaine

    (@apolaine)

    16 years ago

    Thanks (and sorry for my delayed thanks), that looks like the ticket. Or at least close enough to it. An if, else in the while loop makes perfect sense.

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