Displaying second and other older posts in two columns

  • evetslefurax

    (@evetslefurax)


    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    Is it possible, for my front page, to reduce the font size of my front page blog entries (title and excerpt, mainly) without reducing it also in my post pages?

    It’s because I want, on my front page, the most recent post to appear bigger, “featured”, and the other older posts to be in two colums. I managed to do this but the 2nd and other posts need to have their font size reduced. But doing so, it also affect the font size of the title in my post pages.

    I managed to have a featured post + other posts in 2 columns by modifying php. But the two columns posts’ titles were as big as the featured one. So I thought the most efficient way would be to reduce the size of entry content (title, excerpt) of the 2 columns posts on my front page only, without affecting the title font size on my post page.

    Having trouble to explain it clearly. Any idea? Ideally without plugins?

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    what theme are you using?

    Where did you download it from?

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Include_as_Much_Information_as_Possible

    Thread Starter evetslefurax

    (@evetslefurax)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Sorry, yes.

    A Twenty-Fourteen child theme. Jetpack plugin is on. There are two plugins editing the styles “Styles” and “Styles: Twenty-Fourteen”, have not used them in a while (back when I didn’t know any coding, been editing the HTML/CSS since). Note: Have to say also that I apparently made change in the main 2014 theme directly also, as the child and original themes look almost alike.

    the blog: http://www.evetslefurac.com

    I did find this useful code below which puts everything in two columns (including the first post though). This php code below is in my functions.php file (most parts of solutions I found were more about index.php though)

    add_filter('post_class','category_two_column_classes');
 
function category_two_column_classes( $classes ) {
global $wp_query;
if( is_home() ) :
$classes[] = 'two-column-post';
if( $wp_query->current_post%2 == 1 ) $classes[] = 'two-column-post-left';
elseif( $wp_query->current_post%2 == 0 ) $classes[] = 'one-column-post';
endif;
return $classes;
}

    The elseif part is from me, without it, everything shows up in 2 columns. With it, first post is full page, second is half page, third is full, fourth is half, and so on. Like this:

    Post A (full)

    B (half)

    C (full)

    D (half)

    etc. (no two posts together on the same row)

    The CSS:

    /* TWO COLUMNS POSTS */
.two-column-post {
	width: 46%;
	float: left;
	margin-left: 4%;
	background-color: none;
}

.two-column-post-left {
	clear: left;
	margin-left: 1%;
	background-color: none;
}

.one-column-post {
	width: 100%;
	margin-left: 1%;
	background-color: none;
}
    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by evetslefurax.
    Thread Starter evetslefurax

    (@evetslefurax)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Just to be a bit clearer, here is what I am attempting to do, the posts to display like this:

    A (most recent post, one column, full width)

    B C

    D E

    F G

    H I (older posts, two columns, half width each)

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by evetslefurax.
    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by evetslefurax.
    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    I recommend asking in this theme’s dedicated support sub-forum for better results so its developers and users can help you with this:
    https://wordpress.org/support/theme/twentyfourteen

    Thread Starter evetslefurax

    (@evetslefurax)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Ok, will do, thanks! Didn’t know

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    You are welcome 🙂

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    try with this ‘post_class’ filter:

    add_filter('post_class','index_posts_layout_classes');
 
function index_posts_layout_classes( $classes ) {
global $wp_query;
if( is_home() ) :
$classes[] = $wp_query->current_post == 0 ? 'one-column-post' : 'two-column-post'; 
if( $wp_query->current_post%2 == 1 ) 
$classes[] = 'two-column-post-left';
endif;
return $classes;
}

    the 2nd and other posts need to have their font size reduced

    find out how the font size is defined right now, i.e. which selectors are used.

    then use .two-column-post in your CSS to make the new font size style more selective.

    Thread Starter evetslefurax

    (@evetslefurax)

    7 years, 11 months ago

    Works Michael! Many thanks!

    I’ll work on the fonts then, thanks again!

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