Image Posts as Grid of Thumbnails

  • lukestrosnider

    (@lukestrosnider)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hello, all …

    I want to build (or find) a WP theme that:
    – is only for image posts
    – automatically re-sizes / displays a thumbnail
    – displays the posts in a grid

    I have created **exactly** what I want in Tumblr (see http://topsoftables.tumblr.com/), but b/c Tumblr only allows max 15 posts on the front page, the grid ends pretty quickly (I want the grid to go on “forever”).

    My theme-building and WP coding skills are decent. Anyone have any suggestions / advice / themes that could be of use?

    Many, many thanks!

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    your idea looks like no theme at all:
    simply build the loop with the images in little divs, floated left, in a flexible width container; and somewhere far at the end the next/prevlinks.
    no archives, no single, no sidebar, no links …

    i thought of the gallery theme first, but that seems well too complicated for your purpose.
    Gallery, a Thematic child theme
    http://themeshaper.com/gallery-theme-thematic/

    Thread Starter lukestrosnider

    (@lukestrosnider)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks!

    outbreak

    (@outbreak)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Anyway to do this with the Archives page without building in a custom field?

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    the least you would need to do is to build a page template to generate an image grid for your posts in the archive page.

    if you enter each ‘post/image’ into a fixed size (width and height) container div, floated left, this should work quite automatically.

    ps: the images might be quite easy to insert using the new ‘get_post_thumbnail()’ template tag.

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