Comments on: Wordpress: Multiple Content Columns

By: justinrhee

justinrhee — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:07:48 +0000

Even though I updated my theme's function.php, my content doesn't get split into dynamic columns (only

tags) and shows only the first blurb of text before the first tag. The rest gets lost.

Could it be because I'm using WP 2.9.2? If not, then any idea what it could be? I would much appreciate it.

By: John Sam Wallace

John Sam Wallace — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:44:26 +0000

It works with Thematic!

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:24:41 +0000

very usefull help. Can this be used if the content has pagination?

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By: AdrianGould

AdrianGould — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:32:55 +0000

Lovely stuff! I wonder if anyone with the skills would be interested in taking the concept and applying it to GetSimple (http://www.get-simple.info/), which is a very nice little CMS that takes a lot of its cues from WP, but is a MUCH simpler system. It lacks a couple of functions/plugins that would make it infinitely more appealing - one being a multi-column option, another being an easily populated multi-level navigation menu.

I think you have a great solution for that first one right here - anyone got the appetite for 'porting' it to GetSimple (my php skillz are not up to the task!)?

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By: Rob Searles

Rob Searles — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:29:58 +0000

Hi Mojopowder,

You don't necessarily need the is_page() statement. This is just a conditional to decide if what you're displaying is a page or a post. If you know that you'll be displaying a page (i.e. within the Page.php template) then you may not need this.

You can just replace the the_content(blah) code with the following:
$content = get_the_content('',FALSE,''); //arguments remove 'more' text
echo my_multi_col_v2($content);
//the_content('Read the rest of this entry »');

However, for greater flexibility to you utilise the is_page() - and other conditional statements. For more info see here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
and here:
http://wordpress.org/tags/is_page

Hope this helps?
Thanks for you comment
Rob

By: Mojopowder

Mojopowder — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:52:15 +0000

I can't find any of the code you're talking about, i.e., if (is_page), etc. in wordpress 2.8.6. Has it changed and how to we add this coding to 2.8.6? Here is what I find in the default theme and my custom theme: Read the rest of this page »

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