How to have a news / blog section

[commonera]

This is a great theme with a lot of possibilities, however I am struggling to find a way to create a "news" or blog type section. This is really important for my site. I have considered using a "news" category, but then you must manually add new entries to the category grid. Also there doesn't seem to be a way to have multiple pages, so let's say after listing 10 news projects I would need a new page, otherwise it would start taking too long to load. I would be happy if the layout was consistent, like each news project thumbnail takes up three columns and they are in a basic grid. Does this make sense and does anyone have any suggestions?

[arminunruh]

Hey commonera, there is no blog/news functionality for lay theme. Not sure if I will ever add that functionality. If you want you can have a refund.

[commonera]

Thanks for your response, I will keep thinking about a way to make it work, as I would like to use the theme for the rest of my site. Perhaps I'll have a separate WordPress installation for the news section and try to make it look similar.

One suggestion for you: I'm not sure whether it is possible, but an easy solution would be to have an option to display category pages as automatically generated layouts (a basic grid) that could have pagination. That way people could have a "news" category, and its category page would function very similarly to a blog.

If you ever come out with the Gridder plugin that can be used with other designs I will definitely buy that!

[arminunruh]

Hello commonera, the gridder plugin is in beta and you can use it. I wrote you an email!

[JoDa]

Could I try this gridder plugin in beta, too?

[mariusjopen]

Hi JoDa!

Sure!
Best is if you write an email to armin.unruh@gmail.com and explain shortly what you want to use it for.

All the best!

Marius

[notos]

Hi everyone,

Is there any update on any kind of solution about this ?

thank you

[Richard]

Dear @notos

Regarding the Laygridder plugin or Blog functionality :)

Best
Richard