Customizing post listing pages that follow the initial post listing page.

  • Resolved hsatterwhite

    (@hsatterwhite)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    I was wondering if there is a way to make an exception to the loop that will let you apply custom styles to any post listing pages that come after the first/main post listing page?

    For example the initial listing page for a category will have one look and than all of the pages for older/previous entries will have an alternative style/look to them.

    Thanks 🙂

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Paged_Page

    Thread Starter hsatterwhite

    (@hsatterwhite)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Ok, so I could run a conditional to check if the post listings are paged, but how would I pragmatically distinguish the first listing page from the ones that follow, so that the initial page has a different layout and the following pages are uniform?

    Thanks for the link. I’m going to read more in to that function itself.

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Firstly you use something like this to setup the paged variable..

    <?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 0 ;
?>

    Once you have that, you know the first page is 0…
    So..

    <?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 0 ;
if($paged == 0) {
// It's the first page do something
}
elseif($paged == 1) {
// It's the next page
}
else {
// It's any pages other then the first or second
}
?>

    You don’t necessarily need to do lots of IF/ELSE, you could use a switch….

    Thread Starter hsatterwhite

    (@hsatterwhite)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Spot on! Simple and easy. Yea a switch might be faster depending on how expanded this gets.

    Thanks so much for the help t310s and esmi 🙂

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