Hi there,
the loop you’re looking for is in loop.php file:
\wp-content\themes\Newspaper\loop.php
But in loop.php, you can only control the loop and count how many posts the loop is rendering, you can’t control the rendering there. You can control the rendering in the file @Lucian mentioned.
So you have the loop in one file and the rendering in the other. You can make the loop tell the render that some post is the 5th it finds, but that means you’ll have to make the function pass on a new variable.
I believe there’s another easier way:
– create a copy of td_module_9 and call it td_module_10
– edit line 15 of the new td_module_10, replace this <?php echo $this->get_no_thumb_class();?> for this td_mod_no_thumb (this will make td_module_10 = td_module_9 but with no thumbs)
– add a counter to the loop.php
– add if-test to the loop.php, something like, if counter==is-multiple-of-5 and the block to render is td_module_9, then render td_module_10 instead
this should do the trick!
I hope this helps, cheers!
EDIT: oh, I noticed now you want “4-no-thumbs + 1-thumb” and what I wrote will get you “4-thumbs + 1-no-thumb”, just swap the steps I wrote and you’ll get 1 thumb every 5 posts.
I don’t know a lot about Joomla but it doesn’t matter much which is superior, matters which one lets you make something superior. There’s more than the car, there’s also the driver and that’s why you are here trying to learn how to drive wordpress. I’m not defending wordpress over joomla, I just don’t want to say that something is worst when in reality I don’t even know it that well.
About images and thumbnails, yes they can get messy. If you don’t want image resizing (thumb generation) just go to options and set the sizes of thumbnails to 0x0 (zero), voilá, no more image generation. This has the downside of making your visitors download the original images all the time, even if all they are seeing is a thumbnail of them. Making thumbnails will create an image of 2KB to show a 100×65 thumbnail but people are free to serve a 70KB 700×357 image that will be displayed 100×65 anyway, downsized only pixel-wise and not KB-wise.
One thing though: You’ll see 3 thumbnail sizes in WP options but that doesn’t mean that your WP makes only 3 thumb regens, if some plugin or theme registers a new size, that new size will be created and you won’t see it in the options. Woocommerce “installs” 3 thumb sizes regenerations for example, and bam! suddenly you have 10000+ images in your media folder because every upload will be multiplied 6 or more times!
In that regard, this theme could get a bit of optimization. This theme is very beautiful but has lots of blocks, sliders, galleries and what not. So this theme registers a boatload of thumb sizes regens to fit all those blocks. After a while I figured out which blocks and sliders I prefer to use and those I don’t and so I commented out all those thumb regens I don’t use. This should be done, if possible, before running a plugin like thumbnail regeneration or all thumb sizes registered will be regenerated.
PS: support is always answering questions at the forum (during work time ofc, shown top right) but you can try e-mail, they are quick to respond, I wasn’t even their client yet and they answered pretty quick.
Hi,
you can add the following to the file /wp-content/themes/Newspaper/includes/modules/module_modifier/td_module_blog.php in line 200:
//do not show the featured image on post of these categories
if (in_category('SLUG-OF-CATEGORY')) {
return;
}
like this:
-full reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/in_category
-this does not hide thumbs in the blocks or categories listings, it hides the featd image when viewing the post itself
-this will be gone after a theme update, remember to keep tabs on things like that
hope this helps, cheers.
