Okay, do you want the “Present Article” and Previous Articles to be featured on your front page or in the sidebar? These are handled differently. And the “Present” is the one at the top of the list, so either way, it’s at the top of the list already, so this might be a little redundant.
To add a sidebar, open the single.php and after the Loop (check where it is added in your index.php and try to put it in the same place) add this:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
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teddy
(@teddy)
yea but how i display the old articles?
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teddy
(@teddy)
a bump!,
do anyone know how to put previous articles or is this a mod?
i just want to do it like this:
Display 3 entries I do.
Then put 5 previous articles
any ideas?
How about through your categories and archives links? When an articles moves off the front page of your site, it is found within the categories and archives. Or if you are using a calendar, people can use that to find past posts, too.
See, we’re not quite understanding what you want so we need specifics.
You want to display 3 or 8 articles on the front page of your site or in the sidebar. Do you want the whole post, excerpts, or just titles? Or do you want the first 1 – 3 articles to look one way, then a sign that says “these are the next five old articles”? You have to be specific as we are trying to help you.
I gave you instructions on how to make one page show up on the front page of your site. There is a plugin called customizable post listings that will allow you to list your posts in a variety of ways. With this plugin, you can list the most recent articles in your sidebar or below your most current post on the front page, or wherever you want it. I believe it will list titles and excerpts, but I’m not sure it will do the whole post, which is what you seem to not what anyway.
For very customized listing of information on your front page and throughout your site, read: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_In_Action
If you can tell us where and how you want this to work, then we can be more specific.
If you want to see an example of the many ways this can be done, check out one of my category pages on my site and move around the site to see if there is something that looks like what you want. I use the customized post listings plugin in several spots, and other tags to make post titles and post excerpts appear to help people find information. If you point to something specific, I’ll give you specific help.
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teddy
(@teddy)
ok I think i give more examples,
I want them in the frontpage
like
http://www.mezzoblue.com
Older entries:
* An Inevitable Tiger Review May 02, 2005, 9AM PST
* SHA-1 and DB Integrity April 24, 2005, 1PM PST
* Macrodobia April 18, 2005, 10AM PST
* Avalon/XAML First Look April 14, 2005, 10AM PST
* FITC Roundup April 13, 2005, 10AM PST
* Google Maps and Accountability April 07, 2005, 1PM PST
* Too Far March 31, 2005, 11AM PST
etc etc
i’m sorry my english is kinda bad 🙁
mezzoblue.com is not a WP site, it is powered by MT.
However you can achieve a similar display, e.g. ifelse’s blog but it requires some familiarity with the WordPress code, template tags etc.
Start up your blog (now I see an error message clicking on your name) and come back with more specific questions.
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teddy
(@teddy)
mezzoblue isn’t powered by MT afaik, but anyway my blog is in http://blog.akurashy.info ,
I just want now to put the previous articles and finish up with my blog changes 🙂
another thing is that zefhemel.com is powered by WP and have the same thing, except that he putted a summary, and i don’t know what he is using O_o
teddy, before I post I usually check everything I am going to write here 🙂
So read this http://www.mezzoblue.com/about/mezzoblue/ especially the Creation and Maintenance section.
teddy: Did you read the links I posted?
What you are asking to do can be done, but it requires reading and understanding some things:
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop_In_Action
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
And using the plugin from Coffee2code’s Customizable Post Listings.
It can be done, but it takes work, understanding code, and so far, I haven’t seen anyone come up with a theme with this feature built in for you. You have to do the work.
You can also research the Internet to see if someone else has done this with a WordPress site and has shared their steps so you can copy their code.
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teddy
(@teddy)
oh, thanks for the info, it just that it looked so different,
thanks lorellle
I know we want our site to be as different as possible, and in fact there are few that are really, really different under the skin. But when it comes to really making things different, it takes a lot of work, learning, skill, and expertise. How much work to do you really want to put into this when you can create a very powerful and distinctive site with a few graphics, colors, and style changes without going in and learning PHP code?
It’s a good idea, and can be done, it just takes work.
Good luck.
Oh, and by the way, check out CSS Zen Garden. This innovative site features the EXACT same content on every page, with the same HTML file and all that is done is to change the CSS (style sheet) to make every page on the site look COMPLETELY different. It is amazing and inspirational and worth a look to see some REALLY different and unique stuff.
