Every blog has a list of some sort, whether it be a list of posts, search results or a list of archives. Often times these lists get rather lengthy and some times it would be nice to be able to put a promotional item into that list, or if we are speaking search results page, something of this nature. “Can’t find what you are looking for, click here” See image below.

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Did you know you can display your search results differently? This not only works with search results but any list, for example posts, archive list, etc. Take a look at the image below you will notice that the first post is displayed a little differently than the rest of the posts, it stands out more.

Our goal was to make all the posts within the video category display differently.

Let’s take this step by step. So in your stylesheet you already have a class called post or something of that nature to display each post. All we are going to do here is simply create a new class called .videoPost to make all the posts within the video category look different. You can go crazy here, but we chose to only display a video icon and shift the post content a little to the right.

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Numerous blog posts and articles have been written on the topic of utilizing wordpress as a CMS or using it to run a magazine site.  A few months ago a client/friend approached us and asked us if we could build them easy to manage online magazine; an actual magazine not a re-arranged blog made to look like a magazine layout.

We’re talking cnn, guardian, abcnews.com type of stuff.  We gladly accepted the challenge and considering the client was a close friend of ours for years now, we explained to them that we would like to utilize wordpress and see how far we can stretch its capabilities.  With a moderate budget and a flexible timeline we got to work. (lots of other conversations happened before this step, but lets leave that for later, for example writing a specification documentation, workflow, use cases..etc.)

The site we are working on www.autoaggr.com … in the next few posts we will get into details about plugins, tricks and hacks we used.  Comments are always welcome and suggestions are greatly appreciated so bring it on. 

The site may look a little weird in Firefox 3 (we’ll get to that shortly)

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