How can I Style Long "List Posts" in Wordpress?

[IvanC]

Hi All,

I have been working on a list-post which spans over 100 items. Each item on the list has a quick blurb to explain it, an image and a few resource links.

I am trying to find an attractive way to present this long list post in Wordpress.

I have seen several sites with long list posts however; they place their items one on top of the other which yields a VERY long page and the end user has to do a lot of scrolling.  Others turn their lists into slideshows, but I have no data on how slides perform against 10-mile-long-lists which load in 1 page.

I would like to do something similar to what List25.com does as they present about 5-10 items per page and they seem to have pagination.

The pagination part I understand however; is there a shortcode plugin to format lists in an attractive way just like list25?

[yoren.c]

Hi, Ivan,

Based on my knowledge about WordPress, I think List25.com just use standard loop for the posts, and style the first one different from others.

As to the post lists on left or right sidebar, you could use plugin like "WordPress Popular Posts": http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/ or "Ultimate Posts Widget": http://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-posts-widget/ to accomplish.

[IvanC]

Thank you for the input Yoren.c

I suspected list25.com was using something custom in their loop; however, is that some sort of shortcode?

If possible I'd like to find something I could use to style my lists in an attractive way (like a shortcode) without having to play too much with loop/css customization, although I am willing to go that extra mile if that's what it takes.

[yoren.c]

Hi, Ivan,

I believe there's no built-in shortcodes to display posts like list25.com, unless they're hosted in wordpress.com (http://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/), or use plugin like "Display Posts Shortcode": http://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/.

And no matter what a shortcode can do, you still need to customize the CSS to make it go with your theme.

Good luck!

[evolvingSEO]

I am not aware of a plugin that does this thing exactly. You may want to look into general shortcode plugins that have a whole variety of shortcodes and maybe within them you will find something that does what you are looking for - I wouls start with these;

http://codecanyon.net/item/intense-shortcodes-wordpress-plugin/5600492

http://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/

[IvanC]

Thank you Dan!  I tried both and shortcodes-ultimate has heading styles that come very close to what I am trying to accomplish.

Shortcodes-ultimate coupled with some css styling for my tag helped me accomplish my goal.  I just created a dummy-post in list format and the content looks great!

Thanks Again!

[evolvingSEO]

Cool, you bet - thanks for following up and letting us know it worked out