More posts within template

  • Resolved PeterKottas

    (@peterkottas)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hello All!

    First let me thank you for this amazing plugin. I found it by mistake when looking for code while implementing my own Ajax based plugin. After playing with it I just thought, yeah okay, no point in doing it myself 🙂

    I have one question though. On our page ( https://tipsforholiday.com/ ) we have a sort of a blog which works in a following way.

    There is one div container per 4 posts. These 4 posts are in it side by side in div wrappers (columns). I’ve made it with a custom query on the page but now when I want to move to ALM, I don’t have a clue how to do it. It would require (maybe) possibility to work with more then one post in one template.

    Or maybe something like GetNextPost() so that you can do.
    <div class=”container”>
    <div class=”column”>
    Work with first post
    </div>
    <php>GetNextPost();</php>
    <div class=”column”>
    Work with second post
    </div>
    </div>

    And then offset the next query by number of posts used in one template.

    Hope it makes sense and sincerely hope it’s doable 🙂

    Any help much appreciated.

    Btw, I’ve seen the masonry template in examples and while it looks similar I think what I am after is a bit different, especially because the page is fluid and we wan’t more control over it. Hence the columns wrappers.

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/ajax-load-more/

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  • Plugin Author Darren Cooney

    (@dcooney)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Peter,
    Im not really sure what you are asking but your layout is doable with ALM.

    Just add your grid item wrapper to the repeater template and set your posts_per_page to 4.

    <div data-fade="true" data-x-params="{&quot;fade&quot;:true,&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;in&quot;}" data-x-element="column" style="opacity: 1;" class="x-column x-sm x-1-4">
// Content
</div>

    What is this about GetNextPost()?

    Cheers,

    Thread Starter PeterKottas

    (@peterkottas)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Oh cool, the thing I was missing was the container is created every time new page is fetched. Works as a charm no. Sorry for a stupid question. Should have spent more time playing with it. It’s actually coded surprisingly good for a wp plugin. I just assumed it won’t work.

    One idea though. Might be cool if we can get alternating template. So use one template if page%3==0, other when page%3==1. Just an idea. Might produce some cool results. In my case for example have 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/4 in first row. Then 1/2 1/4 1/4 in second. Something like tiles. Might need to adjust post per page as well for this. Just an idea.

    Anyways, thanks for you help!

    Thread Starter PeterKottas

    (@peterkottas)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Well found one more problem now. The thing is. I need to apply css classes to the inner wrapper (the one with alm-reveal applied to it) not the outer one. You can see that with the outer container it doesn’t work. For obvious reasons.
    https://tipsforholiday.com/shorts/
    Is it possible to apply styles to this inner one?

    Plugin Author Darren Cooney

    (@dcooney)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hey Peter,
    Yea you can target inner divs with your css.

    The only thing I wouldn’t update is the display attribute because ALM uses this to show/hide the alm-reveal containers.

    Thread Starter PeterKottas

    (@peterkottas)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Cool, works for me. Not as elegant, maybe you can add it in some future release but to be fair, maybe not a lot of people would use that anyways. I can imagine some of them wanting to assign some custom animation or background so it might be useful.

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