[WordPress] custom post design per category

[mvaneijgen]

I’m busy designing a blog and what i like to have is a custom structure for certain post categories at the ‘blog post overview page’. I’m not a WordPress developer hero, but i like to mess with the code till i can wrap my head around it, but for this i don’t know where to start.

Down here i provided a screenshot of what it could look like. If i have to explain it in text: If the post category is Portfolio show the a large featured image with the title in it and hide the rest of the content.

I know i have to a lot of this with CSS but how do i loop through all the post and get the elements i want and for other categories don’t get those elements?

Screenshot:

I was thinking to just load every element for every post and then hide them for certain categories, but i thought that was kind of dirty.

I hope i explaind my self well and someone can point me to some good resources.

[mvaneijgen]

This is how far i have come

if(query_posts('cat=5')) {
$count = 0;
    while ( have_posts() ) { the_post();

        get_template_part( 'content-portfolio', get_post_format() );
    } // End WHILE Loop

} else { 


if ( have_posts() ) {
    $count = 0;
        while ( have_posts() ) { the_post(); $count++;

            /* Include the Post-Format-specific template for the content.
            * If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file
            * called content-___.php (where ___ is the Post Format name) and that will be used instead.
            */
            get_template_part( 'content-blog', get_post_format() );

        } // End WHILE Loop

 } else {
    ?>
        <article <?php post_class(); ?>>
            <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.', 'woothemes' ); ?></p>
        </article><!-- /.post -->
    <?php } // End IF Statement ?

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