In contrast to ‘normal’ blogs, which often have a long list of posts, photoblogs usually just display one photo on each page, using links to navigate back through the archives.To achieve this, first set ‘Show at most 1 posts’ under reading options. You will now get only one post displayed on each page. However, we want the archive pages to display more than one photo. To do this we need a plugin that will allow you to specify a different number of posts to be shown on different page types. Continue reading ‘[Photoblogging with K2] Part 1: The basics’
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Whereas a typical blog uses text as its primary form of communication, in a photoblog the emphasis is, well, photographs. It therefore makes sense to have a theme which is better suited to using images, both for posts and the archives.
There are various photoblogging programs out there, but none of them really offered what I wanted. So I made my own, based on the wonderful K2 theme for Wordpress.
I’ve since had oodles of people asking how I made it. So, finally, here it is: tutorials for how to build a K2 Photoblog, and for the lazy or css-challenged among you, the Nautilus theme.
Disclaimer: I am in no way a wordpress, K2 or code of any sort expert! I wrote this tutorial and made my theme available for download because a few people asked me to. There are probably more efficient and/or elegant ways to achieve the same results. If you work them out, please let me know! If you have any problems I’ll be happy to try and help you fix them if I have the time, but please don’t rely on it, or come complaining if it doesn’t do what you hope!
Ok, now that’s out of the way, let’s get started!
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