Add Title to Blog Page

[TGScreative]

I created a page "News" and then selected it to be the blog page under Settings.
This removes the page title, i.e., News. How do I get it to appear?
I have tried several methods first adding this to functions.php:

if( is_home() && get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) ) echo get_the_title( get_option( 'page_for_posts' ) );

and this variation I found on this forum

add_action('genesis_loop', 'add_title_to_blog', 5);
function add_title_to_blog(){
	if ( is_page( 'News') ) :
  echo '<h1 class="entry-title"> ' . get_the_title() . '</h1>' . "\n";
  endif;
}

Neither work.Any idea how to do this?

http://artbaseweb.artbase.com/news/

[TGScreative]

Also tried another method, creating a blog template in the child theme with this code:

<?php
//* Template Name: Blog
//* Show page content above posts
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_standard_loop', 5 );
genesis();

I applied the template to the blog. At first this didn't work at least not until I went to settings and deselected the News page as a "post page" from settings for a site with a static front page.

So am I doing this right? I didn't see any information about how to set up a static home page in the Genesis which seems like a grave omission. What am I missing here?

[JamesRoberts]

Hi TGScreative, please can I check, where exactly have you set the news to to be a blog page? Am I correct in thinking that you have set your news page as the static front page under Settings -> Reading? Thanks.

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[TGScreative]

Sorry I dropped the thread on this. I created a page called News. On Settings I selected that as my Posts PAge. I want any content from my static page, i.e., the page title and and text below that, to appear at the top of the page, before the list of blog posts.

I tried adding this to functions.php

//* Add page title to blog page
add_action ( 'genesis_before_content','my_blog_title' );
function my_blog_title() {
if ( is_archive() ) :
echo '<h1 class="entry-title">'. get_the_title() .'</h1>';

endif;
} 

but I guess I did somethign wrong because it doesn't work

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