[Support request] Two blogs – Masonry and "normal"

[tux]

Hi!

I’d really like to add an additional blog with the “common layout” to my already existing masonry/tiles blog. How is this possible?

And I`d really like to add a filter to my masonry blog, so that just the blog entries connected to a certain “topic” will show up. What would be the best way to do this?

Thank you in advance!

[Leo]

Hi there,

I think the easiest way is to use Tom’s WP Show Posts plugin 🙂
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-show-posts/

It should be able to do all those things.

Let me know.

[Tom]

You can turn off masonry by default, then enable it within certain conditions: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-columns-in-the-blog/#adding-masonry-to-your-custom-post-type

So instead of is_post_type_archive( 'portfolio' ) you could use is_category( 'Category Name' ) or whatever.

[tux]

So, let me clarify as I think I wasn’t quite good in explaining what I’d like to do. Sorry, it’s still difficult to explain these kind of things in a foreign language.

My front page is set to display recent posts. I want the front page to show all my posts connected to the category “front-page” in masonry style.

Then there is a second site, let’s call it “Blog” which I’d like to show posts connected to the category “blog” – neither in the column-style, nor in the masonry style.

I used your linked example with “is_front_page() && is_home()” as condition. Now the front page is in masonry – perfect!

I found a snippet which I think would be necessary. It filters out all the entries which should only show up on the “Blog”

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_home_category' );
function my_home_category( $query ) { 
    if ( $query->is_front_page() && $query->is_main_query() ) { 
        $query->set( 'cat', '1'); 
    } 
}

Now, I just need to “activate” a feature, so that the “Blog” site show my posts too, instead of just the front page. I think I could apply the same code as inserted above to filter out the posts which should only show up on the other site.

Thank you again for your awesome help!

[Tom]

Looks like you’re pretty much there!

For the “Blog” site, you could just use the built in category template?

Let me know if that doesn’t work for you 🙂

[Author]

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