PHP Column Loop

This article covers a wordpress two column php loop to display either posts or video’s. I been working on a php two column loop to display my video’s in WordPress at seotool.tv/video and finally finished it today. What a pain it was, especially when your not a coding genious. The deal was I wanted to display my videos and to get them up easily, all I do is create a post in wordpress and slap the ember code in and I’m done. Well the main problem you run into is having to resize the default wordpress post area. Instead what you want to do is put the posts in 2 individual columns and every time you post a new video it will automatically displayed. That way I can have 10 video’s on the front page for visitors to watch and they will change daily. 

If you use Thesis theme you will have to edit your custom.functions.php and add the following code, the following code is a loop for a 2 column display seen in the above link…

<?php

// Using hooks is absolutely the smartest, most bulletproof way to implement things like plugins,
// custom design elements, and ads. You can add your hook calls below, and they should take the
// following form:
// add_action(‘thesis_hook_name’, ‘function_name’);
// The function you name above will run at the location of the specified hook. The example
// hook below demonstrates how you can insert Thesis’ default recent posts widget above
// the content in Sidebar 1:
// add_action(‘thesis_hook_before_sidebar_1′, ‘thesis_widget_recent_posts’);

$loopty_loop = new my_loops;

class my_loops extends thesis_custom_loop {
    function home() {
global $wp_query;
echo ‘<div id=”video”>’;

echo ‘<div id=”left_video”>’;

while(have_posts()) : $i++; 
    if(($i % 2) == 0) : $wp_query->next_post(); else : the_post();
 
echo ‘<div id=”post-’; the_ID();  echo ‘”‘; post_class(); echo ‘>’;

echo ‘<a href=”‘;
echo the_permalink();
echo ‘”>’;

echo the_title(‘<h2>’ , ‘</h2>’);
echo ‘</a>’;
the_content();

echo ‘<br /></div>’;
endif; endwhile; 
echo ‘</div>’;

 $i = 0; 
 rewind_posts(); 

echo ‘<div id=”right_video”>’;
while(have_posts()) : $i++; 
    if(($i % 2) !== 0) : $wp_query->next_post(); else : the_post(); 

echo ‘<div id=”post-’; the_ID();  echo ‘”‘; post_class(); echo ‘>’;

echo ‘<a href=”‘;
echo the_permalink();
echo ‘”>’;
echo the_title(‘<h2>’ , ‘</h2>’);
echo ‘</a>’;

the_content();
echo ‘<br /></div>’;
endif; endwhile;
 
echo ‘</div>’;
echo ‘</div>’;

 
}
}

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