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Offsetting posts with the Arras theme

Rich — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:45:49 +0000

The Arras theme for WordPress is fantastic, i have only been using it for a day and am very impressed. One common thing i found people needing is the ability to offset posts so they can add as many as they want and have them display properly (not more than once) in the “Featured Articles” and “More News” sections. I have had a tweak around, and here is the easiest way i have found to do it:

Open up “home.php” in the root of the themes folder.

Find the following line:
elseif ($featured2_cat == '0') $query2 = 'showposts=' . arras_get_option('featured2_count')

And change it to:
elseif ($featured2_cat == '0') $query2 = 'showposts=' . arras_get_option('featured2_count') . '&offset=4';

This will offset the “Featured Articles #2″ section by 4 posts. For me this is perfect because i have four posts in the first “Featured Articles” section.

To then do the “Older News” (or whatever it is called) section, find the following line:

'showposts' => ( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) ) );

And change it to:

'showposts' => ( (arras_get_option('index_count') == 0 ? get_option('posts_per_page') : arras_get_option('index_count')) ) ) . '&offset=13';

This will offset the news by 13 posts, because i have 4 “Featured Articles #1″ and 9 “Featured Articles #2″ which means in total i need to skip 13 posts.

Hope this helps people!

Looking for the GlossyBlack theme?

Rich — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:14:02 +0000

For those that are looking to download the GlossyBlack theme for WordPress it now has its own little page here. The theme is fully CSS and XHTML compliant and is based on the hugely popular GlossyBlue theme, i have re-tweaked each icon and every colour scheme to bring new life to the theme whilst making little performance enhancements on the way such as smaller image and template file sizes.

This theme is freaking awesome. It’s people like this that really make the world worth living in. Truly incredibly, this guy needs to win the lottery for the pure amount of pleasure he is giving others

-Anon

New site design for the new year

Rich — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:44:28 +0000

Its another new year, and i thought i’d start it (slightly late) with a new design for richl.com. This is a design originally from N.Design Studio’s (credits in footer) that i have modified pretty heavily to include tagging and sub-navigation menu’s for child pages, as well as re-doing every icon/image to suit the dark black/grey theme. It took a little while to do but im quite pleased with the results, if you have any comments or suggestions feel free to leave a comment as usual!

If your interested in using the design for your own site, i’ll be packaging it and putting it on the WordPress Themes site at some point when i’ve tweaked it to buggery!