Then we’ll do our best to help you.
Thank you much. 🙂
The sidebar display could be handled with a secondary Loop and a temporary filter on the_excerpt(). I assume you want individual posts listed, yes? Will all of these entries be in a single category? If so, would you also want that category’s posts display reversed?
As I feared, I would not understand the help you might offer. Visual designer, yes, technical “how to make it do what I visualize”, yeah … not so much – lol.
The questions you asked me, however, have been very helpful in that I realize now I’m not really sure how I want this to look. I was limiting myself to the parameters of my current layout/theme, but after pondering your questions, I have decided that I’m going to scout out some other blogs to see if anything appeals. I’m really interested in creating a Pinterest type design now, with photo links to posts, which will be another animal.
Even doing this, however, will not necessarily resolve my original question. I’m going to go research the suggested “secondary Loop and a temporary filter on the_excerpt” to see what that means. Fortunately for me, my engineer husband’s fearless code reading/understanding ability should come in quite handy. 🙂
Pondering your other questions:
Do I want individual posts listed?
I think so… it just seems weird to me to make a whole new post for each entry. That probably is the only way to get them to show up in any kind of order, though, so I’ll just go with it – lol
Will all of these entries be in a single category?
I typically put my posts into a main category, but also add them to either the laugh, cry, or be inspired by categories. Probably I would do the same in this instance.
If so, would you also want that category’s posts display reversed?
Excellent question!!! No answer. Part of my dilemma with this is that, if you were reading a physical diary, you would read it front to back, oldest to newest entries. But if I put it on the blog that way, wouldn’t the reader have to scroll through many pages/posts (or however it ends up being done) to get to the “newest” entries. (And then there’s the whole non-chronologically inspired posting). But, if I reverse displayed, that would be similiar to reading a diary backwards, which I think would be weird, too.
I hope I haven’t confused you as much as i have mysekf – lol. Been chasing my tail on this for awhile now.
I appreciate your input, & if you have any magical answers, or better yet, magical questions, I’m all ears.
