How do I place my post thumbnails in a panel
I would like to display a range of posts in a nice attractive thumbnail gallery format.
The thumbnails should be displayed in a panel with a title.
The panel should display two rows with four or five thumbnails in each row.
I need to set the background colour of the panel, and a border around each thumbnail.
The post thumbnails need to be selected by category, and latest or random posts.
I have seen this done on many sites and it looks great but I have searched for a plugin without success.
I have added an image of what I am looking for below:
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Hi Bob, have a look at my training: "Creating Columns Using HTML", it may help, you can find it on my profile under training. Hope this helps.
Hi Lynn, I checked it out but this is for displaying ad content not posts. The search goes on:))
I just had a look and lynnray's website has images and titles which link to her posts not ads.
Hi Marion, I tried the theme checker as as you said it's not a Wordpress site.
I will take another look at content.ad
Bob
You can display ads but I don't use it for that. The posts you see displaying are my posts that I have written.
I use content.ad plugin on my site for this. You can customize it with whatever posts you want to show. You can see it at the bottom of my site page here under "Most Popular"
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You've found a website (or 2) which has what you're looking for. All you need to do is go to http://whatwpthemeisthat.com/ and enter the url of the website to find out which theme they're using and even what plugins they have. If it's not a WordPress website then you'll know that it's not something you can incorporate easily.
This sort of thing is likely tied to a specific theme versus an actual plugin. I know there are also many plugins out there that offer you widgets that you can use for slide shows and blocks of images, some might be paid plugins (so do a search in Google).
At the end of the day, in particular in the earlier stages of your site I would not focus too much time and energy on something like this as it is a pure distraction from what will drive your business (content/rankings/traffic). Continue working on that aspect and you can seek to find out a more custom solution as time goes on and perhaps even get something outsourced.
I appreciate that but my site is now quite simple. A header, a logo, post pages for each different category and this grid that will lead to other posts. Of course the content is not what is pictured, that was just the first example I found.
I am sure there are plugins for this so I will continue to look.
Thanks, Bob
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I am not sure if this will help got it from wordpress help, however may i suggest setting up a practice site first use the same theme and try this
Open ../post-templates/content.php find:
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) :
the_post_thumbnail( 'ac-post-thumbnail' );
replace with:
if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) :
echo '';
the_post_thumbnail( 'ac-post-thumbnail' );
echo '';
I have a test site without posts or images but I can do an export and import to test whether it works,
Thank you
Bob
it will serve its purpose if you have the same plugins and theme to test it, let me know how it goes