Displaying 1 category as Mosaics

[LilisNotes]

Hi Sayontan,

I did a search for this, but could not find info (or missed it!). I was wondering if there is an easy way to display one category or page as Mosaic. I want to create a "Snaps" page (I think it'll have to be a category) for pictures, but want to display them as thumbnails.

I appreciate your input!

Thanks!
Liliana
www.lilisnotes.com

[sayontan]

This is possible but it needs a bit of code.

You start off by creating a child theme. Then copy the file category.php from the Suffusion folder to your child theme folder. Then rename this new file category-snaps.php (replace "snaps" with whatever your category's slug is). When you open the file you will see this code:

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if ($suf_category_excerpt == 'list') {
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-list');
}
else if ($suf_category_excerpt == 'tiles') {
   suffusion_after_begin_content();
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-tiles');
}
else if ($suf_category_excerpt == 'mosaic') {
   //suffusion_after_begin_content();
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-mosaic');
}
else {
   suffusion_after_begin_content();
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-blog');
}

Replace it with this:

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   get_template_part('layouts/layout-mosaic');

[janbletz]

Sounds nice. But when I try to do this (by category), I get a page with links.

I have tried to delete the category.php in the suffusion-them directory (wasn't sure if copy means: 'move' or 'copy'), but this didn't help.

URL: http://www.respons.co.nl/category/discussies/wie-zegt-wat

Jan

[sayontan]

It is actually using the mosaic layout, but your posts don't seem to have associated images.

[janbletz]

Ooops...

[janbletz]

I've been playing around a bit with this.

If you use get_template_part('layouts/layout-list'); (and replace mosaic by list, you can get the articles in one category presented as a list. Might come in handy!

Jan

[LilisNotes]

This is possible but it needs a bit of code.

You start off by creating a child theme. Then copy the file category.php from the Suffusion folder to your child theme folder. Then rename this new file category-snaps.php (replace "snaps" with whatever your category's slug is). When you open the file you will see this code:

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if ($suf_category_excerpt == 'list') {
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-list');
}
else if ($suf_category_excerpt == 'tiles') {
   suffusion_after_begin_content();
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-tiles');
}
else if ($suf_category_excerpt == 'mosaic') {
   //suffusion_after_begin_content();
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-mosaic');
}
else {
   suffusion_after_begin_content();
   get_template_part('layouts/layout-blog');
}

Replace it with this:

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   get_template_part('layouts/layout-mosaic');

Sayontan,

Thank you for the response - I had not checked in because we were out of town taking our dog to a clinical study for bone cancer.

Anyway. I am glad to know its possible, however, I don't know code! I'll try to play around with this on a sub-domain. This will be very helpful because we are creating a site for my husband's grandfather's paintings. We don't have a domain yet, but this is what I have so far on a domain not intended for the paintings: http://what.bondiglio.com/category/art. When the category "art" is clicked, I want to display all the paintings, then display them according to each category clicked.

Do you have designers you'd recommend?

Many thanks!
~ Liliana

[janbletz]

An oldie...

This is an option I'd like to use. I'd also like to add the title of each displayed post, though, not only the images. Is this possible?

Jan