Sub-title and comments

[dmillbank 0]

I want to create my main page with a list of posts using H1 title, and a smaller 'sub' title underneath it, an H2. To the left of it I was thinking of putting the amount of comments, but just something simple like this I find extremely difficult using Platform Pro. I'm not getting the concept and I'm hoping somebody can help me in the right direction. This is how far I've come... http://www.millbank.org Thanks in advance.

[timlinson 3]

but just something simple like this I find extremely difficult using Platform Pro

How are you used to doing it? If you can't find the file to tweak, it's called template.postloop.php in this theme.

[dmillbank 0]

Thanks Tim. I am used to edit the wordpress loop in Textmate but stuck to the childtheme (PlatformBase) so that I could update Wordpress properly without messing things up. That's why I didn't find it. I appreciate your help, this is definitely a step in the right direction.

[Kate 3]

Hey Daniel, You can copy template.postloop.php to your base theme, and edit it from there.

[dmillbank 0]

Thank you Kate. I appreciate the tip.

[catrina 103]

Do you need further assistance with this issue?

[dmillbank 0]

Thanks for asking Catrina. The dynamic nature Platform Pro is what I'm sure is causing the confusion for many people. A small edit to template.postloop.php can affect numerous pages: like in my original problem where I needed to add a subtitle to the heading of a post. I was able to find a WP Subtitle plugin, so I changed the template.postloop.php in one spot, but now it affects both my main (front) page AND the post page as well. There must be a way to separate the two like in a regular wordpress installation where you have single.php, post.php, page.php etc. so that you can edit the design of those pages separately. I wanted the subtitle to appear on the main page, but not on the page that shows an individual post. I just haven't completely grabbed the concept of how Platform Pro's infrastructure (in lack of a better word) is set up and I can't find anything in the manual that would help explain it.

[dmillbank 0]

After continuing to work on it I was able to make a conditional tag in the template.postloop.php file.

<?php
	if ( is_home() ) {
	   pagelines_get_post_metabar();
	} else {

} ?>

This allowed the post meta data section to show up on main page, but not on the individual post pages.