Pagination with 2 column listing?

By gi on Mar 24, 2009 at 3:21 AM 2 Vote 0 Votes

Hi everyone,

I'd like to have entries arranged in 2 columns in my blog but this seems to break the pagination plugin ... does anyone know if is possible to keep the 2 column layout and still have pagination? maybe using a different plugin?

thanks!

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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Mixel Adm | March 25, 2009 10:07 PM | Reply

Hi gi

we goin to use two columns with 5 entries each.

First you would need to change the pagination template, in the lastn, just write the sum of both columns.

in the first column use this code:

<mt:Entries lastn="5" offset="$pagination_offset" >

<$mt:Include module="Entry Summary"$>

</mt:Entries>

and for the second column:

<mt:if name="pagination_offset">
<mt:setvars>
 offset2=<$mt:var name="pagination_offset" value="5" op="+"$>
</mt:setvars>
<mt:else>
<mt:setvars>
 offset2=5
</mt:setvars>
</mt:if>
                       
<mt:Entries lastn="5" offset="$offset2" >
      <$mt:Include module="Entry Summary"$>
<mt:EntriesFooter>
<mt:Include module="Pagination">
</mt:EntriesFooter>
</mt:Entries>

As you could see this code will drop the pagination in the second colum.

i don't use to work with templates, so i think this code can be optimized:

<mt:if name="pagination_offset"> 
<mt:setvars> 
 offset2=<$mt:var name="pagination_offset" value="5" op="+"$>
</mt:setvars>
<mt:else>
<mt:setvars>
 offset2=5
</mt:setvars>
</mt:if>

i hope this is what you were looking for.

Kind regards