Notice the Yellow area above, this is a great example of an inhouse promotional item, in this particular example we are trying to encourage users to subscribe to our RSS feed.

How its done. First go ahead and create a new page, we called our subscribe.php in this page we added some text and some styling <div class="promo">
<p>Don't forget to subscribe to our RSS Feed Click here to subscribe
</p>
</div>

Second, go to your list page, for our case its our search.php page, and locate your endwhile statement. <?php endwhile; ?> and insert the following <?php if ($loopcounter == 3) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/subscribe.php'); } ?> In English, you just said, after the first 3 posts display the page subscribe.php.

We use the subscribe.php page instead of just hard coding html into the main template file, so that at any given point we can just go to our subscribe.php and change it to anything we want without having to go into the main template file. A good reason doing this would be if you were calling subscribe.php from a few places, than you would only change subscribe.php instead of going into each page and swapping out code.

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.

So onto styling our .videoPost class, the easiest way to do this is to copy your .post class and alter it.

Here is out .videoPost class

.videoPost{background:#fff url(/wp-content/uploads/images/video_icon.png) no-repeat 0 2px;padding:8px 0 15px 90px;border-bottom:1px solid #d6ebff}, we styled it a bit, assigned an image to the background and padded it a little. Once you are all done styling your new class, save your style.css and lets keep moving on to the actual fun part.

Now we have to go into our search.php (our search results page). The page that is to actually display the search result. Remember you can do this to archive.php or index.php any other page that you would like your video category posts to display differently.

Going into our search.php we look for this bit of code <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <div class="post"> <h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

In English the starting of that code means, that if there is a post do X. What we want to do here is say, if there is a post and the post is in category “Video” display it a certain way with a certain style (.videoPost class) if it is not in that certain category than display it as you would, via the .post class. And here is how its done.

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $loopcounter++; ?>

<?php if ( in_category('66') ) { ?>
<div class="videoPost">
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="post">
<?php } ?>

<h4 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"></h4>

Go head to over to http://www.autoaggr.com and do a search and give it a shot.

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)