Comments on: How to Use a Different Home Page, Archive Page or Single Post Page Layout for Your Site

By: Alistair Barnett

Alistair Barnett — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:29:40 +0000

Hi everyone,

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Alistair

By: Vivek

Vivek — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:43:37 +0000

I have seen this thing asked a few times but can’t figure out the answer. My home page has defaulted to only 3 articles and I can’t figure it out how to increase the number of articles? Can you direct me to the solution. Thanks.

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:25:15 +0000

>>>>> I wanted to change the content from one of my Category pages side bar. Currently all my pages have the same side bar but I would like to change the video content from my BMX category page, is that possible? pleas say yes. Try this ... right now, at the top of your sidebar.php template, you have your video code. You'd just need to change it as follows:


        
                PLACE THE CODE FOR YOUR BMX CATEGORY VIDEO HERE
        
                PLACE THE CODE FOR YOUR NORMAL VIDEO HERE

If you wanted to have multiple different videos, it would work like this:


        
                PLACE THE CODE FOR YOUR BMX CATEGORY VIDEO HERE
        
                PLACE THE CODE FOR YOUR OTHER CATEGORY VIDEO HERE
        
                PLACE THE CODE FOR YOUR OTHER CATEGORY VIDEO HERE
        
                PLACE THE CODE FOR YOUR NORMAL VIDEO HERE

For more on using these conditional statements, see here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_Category_Page >>>>> Also I been haveing a big problem trying to change my permalinks so I can get rid of the "Index". My web host is Ipower and they use IIS. Thanks! Unfortunately, other than finding a new web host, I don't know what to tell you on this one.

By: Al Cayne

Al Cayne — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:42:48 +0000

Hello Michael,
I wanted to change the content from one of my Category pages side bar. Currently all my pages have the same side bar but I would like to change the video content from my BMX category page, is that possible? pleas say yes. Also I been haveing a big problem trying to change my permalinks so I can get rid of the “Index”. My web host is Ipower and they use IIS. Thanks!

By: Iskwew

Iskwew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:40:38 +0000

Regarding overflow of text in the version 5 (I use that one for my homepage) - I use a plugin called Advanced excerpt , which solves most of that problem. Some times though, if I use long words, I put an excerpt in the post. And with Advanced excerpt you need to make sure it doesn't show photos in the option section.

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:23:58 +0000

>>>>> I don’t see a response to Winter Ross Charlton above. I may not have enough room on one line for all of my categories. Can you have multiple rows of categories on the navigation bar? If so, what code must be modified?

1. Open the stylesheet and find this code:

#nav {
 height:30px;
 line-height:30px;
 margin: 0 auto;
 padding:1px;
 border:1px solid #ddd;
 }

2. Change to this:

#nav {
 margin: 0 auto;
 padding:1px;
 border:1px solid #ddd;
 }

3. Scroll down further and find this code:

#nav li {
 float: left;
 margin: 0;
 padding:0;
 border-right:1px solid #fff;
 }

4. Change to this:

#nav li {
 height:30px;
 line-heoght:30px;
 float: left;
 margin: 0;
 padding:0;
 border-right:1px solid #fff;
 }

By: kurt

kurt — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:06:45 +0000

Michael:

I don’t see a response to Winter Ross Charlton above. I may not have enough room on one line for all of my categories. Can you have multiple rows of categories on the navigation bar? If so, what code must be modified?

Thanks!

Kurt

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:52:08 +0000

How can I create a page template that removes the sidebar and expands the page content width to take up the whole page? I only want to do this to one page so I can add an Amazon store to my site.

By: Michael Pollock

Michael Pollock — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:34:38 +0000

I tried switching the home page to option 5, but the summary text is overflowing the box area. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Henry:

There are 2 options here:

1. Use the Excerpt field on your Write Post page, and make your excerpts shorter.

2. Increase the height of the boxes where the excerpts appear.

To do that, open your Stylesheet template and find this block of code:

.home-post-list-5 .entry {
    height: 140px;
    padding:10px;
    }

Then simply adjust the height till you’re happy with it.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:41:05 +0000

Hi Michael,

I tried switching the home page to option 5, but the summary text is overflowing the box area. Any ideas on how to fix this? Site is located at thingsaboutphones.com

Many thanks