Question

Does anyone know what the best way to implement a list/grid togglable view in wordpress would be?
To be more clear: the default view shows the posts in a list, I would like to have the option to show them in a grid.
I have so far created a loop which shows only the thumbnails, and included it in another template.
But I don’t know how I would link to that view. Would I best off using an archive view?

Thanks.

Answer 1

One of the easiest solutions is to create a page template containing a grid view and add a link to this page in the list view. Very simple but just what you need.

I had the same issue with pagination. WordPress has built in function posts_nav_link that automatically prints links to previous and next pages if needed. The problem is that this function works only with $wp_query instance of WP_Query (this instance is used by default, for example to get page’s content or the latest posts in home). So the solution for you:

<?php
$temp=$wp_query;
$wp_query=null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query('showposts=4');
 while(have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php the_post_thumbnail( array(160,160) );?>
    <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<?php endwhile;
posts_nav_link();
$wp_query = $temp; ?>

I think that’s quite obvious and there is no need of explanation 🙂 should be working