Comments on: Multiple Content Areas

By: robert

robert — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:33:48 +0000

Fantastic solution to WP columns.
But I’m having problems, could you have a look?

WP 3.2.1 / Thesis 1.8

In custom.css
.a-test-columns .column {width: 30%; float: left; padding-right: 10px;}
.a-test-columns #content-1 {width: 175px;}
.a-test-columns #content-2 {width: 175px;}
.a-test-columns #content-3 {width: 175px;}

In custom_functions.php
add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘multi_content’);
function multi_content($content){
$columns = explode(”, $content);
$i = 0;
foreach ($columns as $column){
$return .= “” . “\n”;
if ($i > 1) $return .= “”;
$return .= $column;
$return .= ”;
$i++;
}
if(isset($columns[1]))
$content = wpautop($return);
else
$content = wpautop($content);
return $content;
}

http://www.graphics-i-design.com/a-test-columns/
Column 1
Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1Test column 1.

Column 2
Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2

Column 3
Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2Test Column 2

Any comments very appreciated, I like your solution to WP columns.
-robert

By: Bill Erickson

Bill Erickson — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:18:04 +0000

Either way should work. Your way is probably best since it keeps all that template’s code in a single file, but my approach would work regardless of your template structure (I can’t advise on how to modify your code without seeing it, so I had to modify mine)

By: Lynne Good-Miller

Lynne Good-Miller — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:16:36 +0000

Actually – I just put the code on the page template itself and it works – is that the best way to do it if I only want it when certain templates are used?

By: Bill Erickson

Bill Erickson — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:13:41 +0000

Modify this line:

if(isset($columns[1]))

To this:

if( isset( $columns[1] ) && is_page_template( '3coltemplate.php' ) )

By: Lynne Good-Miller

Lynne Good-Miller — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:07:10 +0000

I would like to use this for a page template – maybe using if ( is_page_template(’3coltemplate.php’)) {

I am having some problems – how would I incorporate this if I only want it executed if I use a certain page template?

Thank you so much!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:54:42 +0000

Thanks for code! But I found mistake. At the 7th line of code it should be ” if ($i > 0) $return .= “”;” instead of what is now. Of course I you use only columns in your content.

By: Bill Erickson

Bill Erickson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:54:06 +0000

Can you provide a link to the page you’re trying to do this on?

By: Don

Don — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:58:26 +0000

Hi.

I can’t get this to work on my site (WP 3.1 and newest Thesis version)

I have setup things exactly as described and I can see that the correct ‘s are inserted in the code.

In the custom.css file I have inserted the lines below but nothing changes on my pages. (I have double checked that custom css is enabled in Thesis!).

.custom .column {float: left;}
.custom #content-0 {width: 400px;}
.custom #content-1 {width: 150px;}
.custom #content-2 {width: 150px;}

I hope someone can help me out.

By: Bill Erickson

Bill Erickson — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 14:51:55 +0000

You’ll need to build a custom page template for the homepage that simulates the look and feel of the teasers but does what you want. The problem is teasers are in rows, not columns (one on left, one on right, then one below on left…). You’ll need to rebuild it as columns if you want each column to show posts from a separate category. Alternatively, you could make each row of the teasers show two posts from a specific category.

This tutorial should help: http://www.berchman.com/thesis-tutorial-multiple-custom-page-templates/

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:54:56 +0000

Hi,
Do you know how to tell Thesis to have teasers on the homepage, but have one column dedicated to one category and a second column dedicated to another category?
What I would like to do is post MANY news articles per day, but not let this drown out my other types of posts on the homepage (posted only twice a week).
Thanks for any help you can offer.