[Justin FParticipant]

Loving your theme! Very clean, elegant, and simple. I have an issue I ran into using the recent posts shortcode. I would like to be able to have my homepage be a grid of all recent posts. Does your shortcode offer the option to offset posts? Could i have one row of posts 1-4, then the next of 5-8, then 9-12, etc. I am aware the shortcode only allows for the last 4 posts, so I would just add row on top of row while offsetting the posts. I am using WP version 3.8.1, X Theme version 1.7.2, and X shortcodes version 2.0.6. You can view the site at http://www.guysbiteout.com/dev
Thank you!
Erich

[KoryKeymaster]

Hey Justin,

Thanks for writing in and for your very kind words! While this is currently not an option in X, this is a great idea and we will investigate this for a future release of the X Shortcodes plugin. We have made a note of this for our development timeline!

Thanks. 🙂

[Justin FParticipant]

Thanks a lot! Appreciate the timely response!

[KoryKeymaster]

No problem. 🙂

[Silvia CParticipant]

Hey Justin,
I love the way you organized your home page, with a custom “recent posts” grid and colors changing on mouse-over! I’m a total beginner so I’m almost afraid to ask…how did you make it so? 😉
Silvia

[KoryKeymaster]

Hey Silvia,

Thanks for writing in! While I’m not sure exactly what Justin is using, that’s definitely a third-party plugin as we don’t have functionality quite like that implemented with the theme. That being said (and Justin, this is in relation to your original post), we’ve finally gotten around to adding in the offset feature for the [recent_posts] shortcode, so now you can easily implement multiple rows of the [recent_posts] shortcode with an offset to create a grid of posts if you’d like. This also gives you the ability to mix and match the [recent_post] shortcode with different configurations to easily create great unique layouts. For instance, you might want a layout with your most recent post prominent and separate from the rest, then with a row of three recent posts beneath it. This could easily be accomplished with something like the following:

[recent_posts type="post" category="" count="1" orientation="horizontal"]

[recent_posts type="post" category="" count="3" orientation="horizontal" offset="1"]

Look out for this update along with plenty of others in the coming release of the theme/shortcode plugin!

[Justin FParticipant]

Sylvia – Those are actually not recent posts on the homepage. They are just images with custom css added to give the hover effect you see on the front end. I can send you the code if you want to try something similar though!

[SupportMember]

Thanks Justin! Glad you’re open to share your work. If you need any assistance, please let us know.

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