Two authors & two columns?

cassepied · Post by **cassepied** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:06 am

Would it be possible to create a blog with Serendipity that is authored by two different authors and displays their respective posts in a separate column?

This means that there would be two columns of posts (one for each author) as well as some kind of sidebar column. A total of three columns - two wide and one narrow.

How much PHP knowledge would be necessary? I know HTML and CSS to a reasonable standard, but I don't know much PHP at all - so far.

Has anyone already created such a theme?

Davy · Post by **Davy** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:43 am

The only solution I could find is this:
Make three sidebars in your template. Then install the "Display Entries in Sidebar" plugin (or something like that name). You will need to do that for both author-sidebars. Then you can assign a caegory to each author and display that one on their sidebars.

cassepied · Post by **cassepied** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:57 pm

Thank you for your response. I have downloaded the plugin and I will try it out.

If anyone else has any other advice, I would welcome it.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 2:32 pm

Hi!

Fetching two different set of entries within a single page is currently a lot of work to do manually with Serendipity. You'd have to build your own PHP plugin to fetch entries etc, so the approach mentioned by Davy should be the best ony.

Another way would be to make a minimal theme for Serendipity and then use a central frameset where you embed two views of Serendipity via iframe; you can use the "View by Author" link URLs there?

HTH,
Garvin