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    Posted by eSeL Austria

    i am trying to arrange the “articles-teasers??? vertically in two columns on the startpage (embedded via {ARTICLES})

    this means that i want text of the heading to appear BELOW the picture (it ususally appears RIGHT of the image)

    i imagine this would be possible if i fiddle with some templates (and CSS)...

    so – before i start destroying my layouts - i ask you, wise sages of tiki:

    has this has been done (or tried) before in tiki?

    are there any (ex)samples i could start with / examine?

    (i checked thmemes.tiki found nothing – and also assume that this question rather belongs here, right?)

    ps1.
    is there a way to have a choice between “normal??? display of the article-header AND the vertical alternative (maybe if i configure just one “type??? of article?)

    ps2.

    from your expertise with the (...err... sometimes a little bit stubborn) middle column...
    what would the best way to define two columns of equal width in the main column?
    (without tearing the site apart)

    a) normal table in tiki-syntax?
    b) Split Plugin?
    c) Fancy Table?
    or
    d) good old html tables?

    thank you very much for any hints.

    eSeL

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    Posted by Gary Ireland

    Personally, I use the Split plugin for two columns. You could certainly do something like 

    
 
                
    
                        
            
    
                
    
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    The normal table and fancy table are not really what you want to use.

    You would then have to edit the tiki-view_articles.tpl (will impact all articles, both in wiki pages via the ARTICLES plugin and the articles feature) to change the layout of the image wrt title.

    Gary

    Posted by superdave

    Hi Gary.
    I was trying the above code suggestion of yours to get a two column article listing for a homepage.

    ===========
    quoteyou wrote;
    """""
    Personally, I use the Split plugin for two columns. You could certainly do something like;

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    {SPLIT()}
{ARTICLES(start=>44,max=>1)}{ARTICLES}
---
{ARTICLES(start=>2,max=>1)}{ARTICLES}
{SPLIT}

    """""
    /quote
    ===========
    I just did a cut/paste of the above. Sure enough, I got two columns, but they both displayed the SAME articles. Like this:

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    Rodriguez Nyiringabo -
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    Security updates are now available for several Tiki versions: Tiki 27.x LTS (Long-Term Support), Tiki 26.x, and Tiki 24.x LTS. Users of any of these versions are strongly recommended to update their websites. Please get the latest versions files here: Tiki 27.1, Tiki 26.3, Tiki 24.7.

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    I didn't see the "start" parm documented anywhere, but I was guessing that it was sort of an "offset" or something.

    I'd like to have two columns, but show the first 5 (or so) articles on the left of the wiki page, then continue with articles 6 thru (say) 10 on the right column of the split wiki page.

    Am I making any sense? Can you or anyone assist with a hint?

    (btw/ what is the purpose and syntax of the "start" parameter?)

    Regards, -sd