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Posted by Caroline McQueen
Caroline McQueen
1,910 Points

Displaying custom post types in two columns in Wordpress

Hi,

I’m building my own Wordpress theme whilst following along with the Treehouse tutorials. (Please post more soon!)

What I’m trying to do is display a custom post type (“news”) in two columns on the front-page template. I found a

n article online that explains how to use PHP’s modulus operator to display two loops with the rewind posts function, however I can’t seem to make it work with custom posts – I just get a syntax error. Any suggestions?

Here’s my Code:

<?php    
    $args = array(     
  'post_type' => 'news'    
     );     
    $the_query = new WP_Query( $args );     
?>    

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

left column

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

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

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

right column

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

7 Answers

John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points
John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

Do you have a link to the article that you're referencing?

Caroline McQueen
Caroline McQueen
1,910 Points
Caroline McQueen
Caroline McQueen
1,910 Points

Yes, here's the link: http://perishablepress.com/two-column-horizontal-sequence-wordpress-post-order/

John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points
John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

Everything seems correct. What I would do is open your template in a code editor and reference the line number that you are getting a syntax error on, and see if something is out of place.

I go through this all the time. Sometimes I haven't closed something properly, or a bracket or semicolon is out of place. A lot of time, that's all it is.

Caroline McQueen
Caroline McQueen
1,910 Points
Caroline McQueen
Caroline McQueen
1,910 Points

Thanks I'll do that.

John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points
John Locke
John Locke
15,479 Points

Let me know if you get it to work, and what the bug was if you do.

Caroline McQueen
Caroline McQueen
1,910 Points
Caroline McQueen
Caroline McQueen
1,910 Points

I re-copied and pasted the code from the article into my template and now it seems to work fine. It must've been that I didn't close something correctly. Thanks for your help!