Comments on: Rockin’ out WordPress custom loops

By: MPE

MPE — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:01:12 +0000

Thank you so much..i love this tutorial… :D

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:52:51 +0000

[...] up on my home page and in my RSS feed. I couldn’t find it documented anywhere. There are lots of examples of how to narrow down query results in order to show only some of the normal post-type [...]

By: kristarella

kristarella — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:54:34 +0000

Rachel --- Are you using Thesis? Are you using Post Images with Thesis on your portfolio posts? If so you should be able to use the thesis thumbs function and insert it onto a page with thesis_hook_after_post rather than than hooking it into the sidebar. Change the number of posts and category name and it should be a reasonable start. You'll probably need some info from the links at the end of the post as well.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:06:25 +0000

I would like to create a portfolio page with just thumbnails on the page. I’d also like to put some random thumbnails on my homepage to give a glimpse as to what is in the portfolio page. Can you help me with this? I was trying to implement your code, but not having much luck getting it to display correctly.

Also, I don’t want this portfolio category to display with my regular blog posts.

Rachel

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:34:53 +0000

Ayesha — I think I misread your initial comment: I thought you meant making teasers from a particular category, but just titles and images is pretty easy…

Pretty much all the information you need is already in the post. Use the first code snippet in thesis_hook_before_content and use the is_home() conditional code to limit it to the home page, but change the &cat=-5 to &posts_per_page=2 to limit the large posts to 2 without affecting the number of posts on archive pages.

Then you can use a combination of the “add it to the sidebar” and the function after that to add post titles with thumbnails. Just change the hook you add it to to thesis_hook_after_content instead of the sidebar.

By: Ayesha Khan

Ayesha Khan — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:41:12 +0000

No, i dont have access to DIYthemes forums, is there any other online resource to learn how to do it?

By: kristarella

kristarella — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:32:38 +0000

Ayesha --- Do you have access to the DIYthemes forums? I'm pretty sure we've discussed custom teaser loops over there.

By: Ayesha Khan

Ayesha Khan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:53:33 +0000

HI KRISTARELLA, is there any way to show the summary of only first one or two posts while displaying recent posts from any specific category with thumbnail? as posts displayed in first colunm of this site http://wpmu.org/

I could not find any help from google. I think nobody telling how to do it. Or may be it is little complicated. Don’t know if it is possible in thesis or not.. What you say? If you can tell me how to do it then i will be very Thankful to you. ;)

By: SeanE

SeanE — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:07:09 +0000

That did it, thank you Kristarella. BTW, I checked out your profile, my birthday is April 10th also! : )

I sent a little thanks via Paypal over the weekend.

Cheerio.

Sean

By: shames

shames — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:30:28 +0000

never mind i fix that. i successfully managed to show my homepage only todays post. :D

my 2nd problem is i want only to show 1 post in each category.