Word Press Skinning

I'm working on a skin for Wordpress 2, and trying to do a few basic things. I don't want to modify any PHP files or use any plugins unless its necessary.

As you can see in the nice mockup above, we have two columns of content. First (left) will have your basic news items (ie certain category maybe labeled news). But the left col has more than just that, the first or latest news item on the page, will have a different style than the rest, that way it stands out more. Now on to the second column (right), will have a list or something like it (be nice if it was customizable), of other news items from another category (which don't appear on the left). Say if it was a list of releases of icons or what not, and if someone were to click it, it'd either goto the news post or a forum link.

If anyone can understand any of what I posted, and can help, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,

#398864

I'm no Wordpress expert, but can't this be achieved through a skillful use of categories/tags? Just wrap a certain category in a div with a special id, and then style that div with CSS.

Come on you Wordpress experts, give us some help .

-NC

#398906

Timmie we have to talk on IM. I'll catch you sometime next week, when (hopefully) I will have less work to do. Beforehand I have to peek in my WP files to see how this **** is organized

#398964

Well, peter, get your arse on msn and help me out then

#399397

hmm... I'm also glad to offer as much help as possible.

#401757

Well, since no on seems to know how to do anything of this nature with wordpress. Can anyone recommend a decent cms/news script that can do this?

#402472

LEFT COLUMN (with plugin): the customizable post listings plugin handles offsets. the function c2c_get_recent_posts takes an offset parameter. call that function once (showing only one post) to display the latest entry and wrap that sucker with its own style. use the function again to call up subsequent entries and wrap those guys with their own style. best of all, you can specify which category/categories to display these entries from.

LEFT COLUMN (no plugin): however, if u want to do without a plugin, perhaps this post has some info on how to display the entries where the top entry output is different from the subsequent entries. that way you can display different styles and different post criteria (full or excerpt). of course to show only entries from one particular category, you would have to add an additional check for that.

RIGHT COLUMN: again, customizable post listings should be powerful enough to handle displaying a list of posts from specified categories.

COLUMN STYLE: as far as styling the columns, it should be as simple as:

<style>

#container {width: 760px;}

#left  {width: 500px; float: left; overflow: hidden}

#right {width: 160px; float: right; overflow: hidden}

</style>



<div id="container">



<div id="left">LEFT COLUMN</div>



<div id="right">RIGHT COLUMN</div>



</div>

i hope thats what your asking or can provide a start at least.

#402535

this is entirely possible in Wordpress...

I think like this?

http://thebig****.com

substitute **** with "n o o b"

#402616