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Posted by Darcy Paterson
Darcy Paterson
Courses Plus Student 1,971 Points

Wordpress display posts horizontally

Hello,

Does anyone know how To make Wordpress posts display horizontally? I built a theme in bootstrap and I am now trying to configure the loop so it posts across 3 columns.

Thanks!

2 Answers

Riley Hilliard
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Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points
Riley Hilliard
Riley Hilliard
Courses Plus Student 17,771 Points

This is less of a Wordpress issue, and more of a CSS/Bootstrap issue.

A) what version of bootstrap are you using. Assuming it is version 2xx, you use the 'spanX' class to set the col span. usually you have a 12 col grid, so having 3 cols would be "span4" (3X4 = 12). To span all 12 cols that would be "span12". To do this in wordpress, you just need to edit the template file you are looking to change the col spans on, and write the loop to print 3 span4's.inside each row-fluid.

Darcy Paterson
Darcy Paterson
Courses Plus Student 1,971 Points

Someone on Stack overflow suggested using this:

$i = 1; echo "<div class='row'>\n"; while( $i <= 10 ){

echo "  <div class='col-lg-4'></div>\n";
if( $i % 3 == 0 ) { echo "</div>\n<div class='row'>\n"; }

$i++;

} echo "</div>\n";

but I don't know how to implement it into my code. I'm new with PHP...

Darcy Paterson
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Darcy Paterson
Courses Plus Student 1,971 Points
Darcy Paterson
Darcy Paterson
Courses Plus Student 1,971 Points

I'm using Bootstrap 3. The code I have now looks like this:

    <div class="row">


    <?php if (have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : $i++; if(($i % 2) == 0) : $wp_query->next_post(); else : the_post(); ?>

    <div class="col-sm-4">
    <img src="<?php the_field('home_page_slider_image'); ?>" class="img-responsive" >
    <h3><?php the_field( 'description' ); ?></h3>

    </div>

    <?php endif; endwhile; else: ?>
    <div>Alternate content</div>
    <?php endif; ?>

    <?php $i = 0; rewind_posts(); ?>

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : $i++; if(($i % 2) !== 0) : $wp_query->next_post(); else : the_post(); ?>

    <div class="col-sm-4">
    <img src="<?php the_field('home_page_slider_image'); ?>" class="img-responsive" >
    <h3><?php the_field( 'description' ); ?></h3>
    </div>

    <?php endif; endwhile; else: ?>
    <div>Alternate content</div>
    <?php endif; ?>


    <?php $i = 1; rewind_posts(); ?>

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : $i++; if(($i % 2) !== 0) : $wp_query->next_post(); else : the_post(); ?>

    <div class="col-sm-4">
    <img src="<?php the_field('home_page_slider_image'); ?>" class="img-responsive" >
    <h3><?php the_field( 'description' ); ?></h3>
    </div>

    <?php endif; endwhile; else: ?>
    <div>Alternate content</div>
    <?php endif; ?>



    </div>