WordPress Recent Blogs Mess

[ArchDesignLabs]

Can you guys help me? Under Recent Blogs on my site the code is forcing all of the blog names to cram into one another, but I need it to be one blog per line. I have tried to firebug it and cant seem to figure it out. It seems like I am just overlooking something. The site is http://www.archdesignlabs.com.

Thanks in advance!

[AntonNiklasson]

Make an unordered list and put every blog in a separate list item.

Blog-name

[ArchDesignLabs]

I am using WordPress so its auto generating the recent blogs post. If I make the unordered list that doesnt use any of the wordpress functionality for blogs

[Clayton]

Do what Anton said, and put the HTML code (ul…li) into the loop in WordPress.

You’ll most likely need to edit the sidebar.php page, and put the unordered-list markup into the loop where it churns out the code.

Try the WordPress codex too. or the IRC channel on freenode; #wordpress.

[AntonNiklasson]

I haven’t tried this myself, but it is listed in the codex so give it a go.

http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions/get_blog_list

If you’re hard coding the “widget” in your sidebar.php: Simply put the code where it should be.
If not, you need a plugin or added functionality in your theme to be able to execute php code in a widget. This might do it:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/php-code-widget/

[ArchDesignLabs]

Ok so I am trying to widgitize my sidebar right now.

I cant use the get_blog functions only the get_archive functions. I followed some of Chris tutorials and thats what he did so I kind of just copied it. Not sure what to do now :$ I thought that there would be an area to say one post per line.

Here is the code I am using to call to the archives.

‘postbypost’, // or daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
‘limit’ => 10, // maximum number shown
‘format’ => ‘none’, // or select (dropdown), link, or custom (then need to also pass before and after params for custom tags
‘show_post_count’ => false, // show number of posts per link
‘echo’ => 1 // display results or return array

) ); ?>

[ArchDesignLabs]

Try this link

I will try that too

[ArchDesignLabs]

Oh wow! Display: block worked! That was simple but something I just wasnt thinking about. Thank you very much. Now off to fix the other 15 errors. Then update the site a little. Right now the site is ok, but I want something that is really good. Any suggestions?

[ArchDesignLabs]

I want the site to serve as a community of information and distribution much like css-tricks actually. I like the dark site design and the simplicity of the design. I like fun sites though, like things that are unexpected and I really love sites with visual depth. Right now mine basically has zero visual depth. This was my first site ever and I designed everything and coded it all so I am not really sure how to do alot of things.

Thanks

[AntonNiklasson]

Are you not using your WP installation as a network? Or why is get_blog_list not available?

However, the most semantic way to list those links is in a unordered list. Display:block isn’t really the best solution, even though it’s the easiest.

This is what I’m talking about:

'type' => 'postbypost', // or daily, weekly, monthly, yearly

'limit' => 10, // maximum number shown

'show_post_count' => false, // show number of posts per link

'echo' => 1 // display results or return array

I removed the format parameter, returning li’s instead, and I wrapped the function in ul’s. This gives you a more semantic markup. Just sayin’.

[AntonNiklasson]

Are you not using your WP installation as a network? Or why is get_blog_list not available?

However, the most semantic way to list those links is in a unordered list. Display:block isn’t really the best solution, even though it’s the easiest.

This is what I’m talking about:

'type' => 'postbypost', // or daily, weekly, monthly, yearly

'limit' => 10, // maximum number shown

'show_post_count' => false, // show number of posts per link

'echo' => 1 // display results or return array

I removed the format parameter, returning li’s instead, and I wrapped the function in ul’s. This gives you a more semantic markup. Just sayin’.

[ArchDesignLabs]

Ok, the

tag seems to be working fine.

Thank you very much @AntonNiklasson

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