ThorHammer

btw: How to escape the brutal line break before the “…” ?

As far as I have found out, this is not possible to do with excerpts. I guess the soultion is to add a custom field and use this as an extra excerpts-container, cause this output is possible to manipulate. Please, correct me if I am wrong?

wildfremd: Yes, but really, as long as the output becomes as it is supposed to do, and as long as the code validates perfect, then it really is no problem at all. Ok, tables is really old fashion, but as long as it does the job -what the heck is the problem. If we freeze and the electricity is out, we have to light up in the fireplace. The heat will save us. In both ways 🙂

Thank you GDragoN. I did as you told. My query goes like this:

<?php
   $cool = new WP_Query('gdsr_sort=rating&gdsr_order=desc&cat=5&posts_per_page=5');
	while ($cool->have_posts()) : $cool->the_post();
etc....

But it doesn’t take any notice of post ratings.

Thak you for your suggestion simplethemes! A really helpful site. But it still gets f***ed up. I guess it is something wrong with the style implementation into my custom querys. Here is the first query (of three):

<div class='container container_3'>
<div class='grid_1  suffix_2'>
<h3>query nr 1:</h3>
<?php
   $cool = new WP_Query('gdsr_sort=rating&sort_order=desc&cat=5&posts_per_page=5');
	while ($cool->have_posts()) : $cool->the_post();
   $post_image = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'image', true);
   $post_alt = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'alt', true);
?>

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"  rel="bookmark" title="Permanent url to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php if (strlen($post->post_title) > 20) {
echo substr(the_title($before = '', $after = '', FALSE), 0, 20) . '...'; } else {
			the_title();
			} ?></a></h2>
<?php if($post_image !== '') { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php if($post_alt !== '') echo $post_alt; else the_title(); ?>"><img src="<?php echo $post_image; ?>" alt="<?php if($post_alt !== '') echo $post_alt; else the_title(); ?>" style="width:250px;height:190px; " /></a>
<?php }
	else {
	echo 'missing image';
	}
?>

<?php echo '</div>'; endwhile; ?>
<div class='clear'>&nbsp;</div>

Ok.. I guess I have to use tables…

bump? 🙁