food site using wp – not a standard template

  • JohnPope

    (@johnpope)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    I have used WordPress quite a lot in the past, but haven’t used it for a few years.

    Earlier this year, I started a food blog but didn’t know how much time I would have to post anything on it, so I just used wordpress.com, now I am finding that I am spending more time there than I thought I would be able to, and I want to do a lot of things with the site/blog that wordpress.com just doesn’t allow me to do.

    I’ve put together a site and imported posts over from my existing blog, and it is currently living in a temporary place while I work on it and try to iron out some bugs.

    I’m happy with the front page, and the rest is starting to come together as well, although there is a bit of CSS fiddling still to do.

    My biggest problem is that I only have a Mac at home, and while everything looks fine to me in Safari, Firefox and Opera, and also looked ok in IE7 from an internet cafe this morning, I have no way to see how broken it all is in IE6 or earlier.

    I’d really appreciate any and all feedback, both good and bad.

    Thanks in advance.

    http://www.sevent.com.au/food/

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  • mikey1

    (@mikey1)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Hi there, what a great blog, and I’m glad to see that others are praising you too.Very original, and I like the clear navigation, as a well known foody, I can always read about it, well done.
    Its bookmarked.
    Mike.

    Cathy Tibbles

    (@multitalentedmommy)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    I have a similar design that I’ve been working on. Here, I thought I was original! I bet you found a better way to query the category’s latest post too. I like the site. Very clean and easy to navigate.

    Thread Starter JohnPope

    (@johnpope)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Mikey: Thanks, I’m glad you like it. 🙂

    Multitalented: I bet I didn’t, it’s very hacked together, but I’m going to go back and make it all neater, I just wanted to get it looking reasonable and out there first, and then I’ll go back and clean up the code and the css later.

    Chrisber

    (@chrisber)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    It’s looking better all the time.

    netwonder

    (@netwonder)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    John Pope

    Any chance you could share your secret for pulling the different category posting to the homepage like you did. I am working on a site and I would like to do the same thing.

    I wrote this but no luck.

    <?php require(‘/home/content/t/a/l/talkingscience/html/blogs/wp-blog-header.php’); query_posts(‘showposts=2’); wp_set_post_categories(‘/home/content/t/a/l/talkingscience/html/blogs/category/health/Health’);
    while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <h3>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

    <h7><?php the_time(‘m/j/y’); ?> | Filed under:
    <?php the_category(‘, ‘) ?></h7>
    <?php the_content(‘Read more…’); ?>

    <?php endwhile;?>

    omgitztrey

    (@omgitztrey)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    You are suppose to be pulling it by category id

    And you will need multiple loops

    maurreen

    (@maurreen)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    I would make “Other stuff” the last box of the six.

    Thread Starter JohnPope

    (@johnpope)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Sorry, I’ve been away for a week.

    To pull posts from different categories into lists on the frontpage like I have done is pretty simple, but you will need to use multiple loops.

    Below is the basic code that I am using on that page. I’ve stripped it down to a simple form without any formatting so that it is easy to follow. You just need to repeat the loop for as many categories as you want to display.

    <!-- Featured post in 1st category -->

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=THEFIRSTCATEGORY&showposts=1');
 while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  		$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content; ?>
  		<?php endwhile; ?>

<!-- Other posts in the 1st category -->

<?php query_posts('category_name=THEFIRSTCATEGORY&showposts=4'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
		if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>

<?php the_title(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<!-- Next category -->

<!-- Featured post in 2nd category -->

<?php $my_query = new WP_Query('category_name=THESECONDCATEGORY&showposts=1');
 while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
  		$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

<?php the_title(); ?>
<?php the_content; ?>
  		<?php endwhile; ?>

<!-- Other posts in the 2nd category -->

<?php query_posts('category_name=THENEXTCATEGORY&showposts=4'); ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
		if( $post->ID == $do_not_duplicate ) continue; update_post_caches($posts); ?>

<?php the_title(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
    Thread Starter JohnPope

    (@johnpope)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    @maurreen

    Thanks, I think you are right. I’ll move them around this afternoon.

    Chrisber

    (@chrisber)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    JohnPope:

    Any chance you would be willing to let me take a closer look at your template files? I’m trying to figure out a way to organize my site by category. The more I study your site the more I like your basic concept.

    Thanks,
    Chris

    mores

    (@mores)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I really, really like it, it’s well planned and well done.
    I guess most of your work was in planning, what you want to categorize how 🙂

    Site bookmarked 😉

    justderek

    (@justderek)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    @johnpope

    Don’t know if you’ve solved the IE testing issue yet, but if not: are you aware of browsershots.org? I use it all the time. As its front page says:

    Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser… make screenshots, and upload them to the central server here.

    So you just select which browsers/other specs, put in the url of the page you want to test, and then wait a bit as the screenshots come in and load on the results page.

    redhousepainter

    (@redhousepainter)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I didn’t read all of the posts so I’m not sure if this was covered but…

    I also have a Mac and when I can’t be bothered running IE on VMware Fusion I use the best web tool in the world.

    Personally, I really like the front page boxes structure. I’d just make them navigational graphics and get rid of the text.

    lexipixel

    (@lexipixel)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Very nice layout.

    One suggestions: Since you set the precedent of enabling users to click on the image(s) on the home page to read a post, it would be nice if you the images in the category pages also were clickable, (should be as easy as adding the same tag as the title,

    <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><img src="/path/to/filename.jpg" border="0" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>

    e.g.- in http://johnonfood.com/sections/how-to/

    You can’t click the images — AND I WANTED TO!

    mainframeguy

    (@mainframeguy)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    works fine in Chrome! (You could always try blogging something like “browser fodder” and asking any IE6 users to leave comments, just a thought!).

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