Adding Content Before the Posts on a Blog Page

[Webmaster]

Using the Genesis Snippets code (http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/blog-page-content/) doesn't work for Ambiance Pro. Anyone done this in Ambiance Pro before? Clues? Alternative approach? Thanks.

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[Brad Dalton]

Try this http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-content-before-posts-blog-page-only/

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[Sridhar Katakam]

@Webmaster: Can you provide the URL of your site?

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[Webmaster]

Hey guys, thanks for the help, but there is nothing wrong with my site - or the snippet for that matter. The problem is that Ambiance Pro comes with a custom page_blog page that displays posts with hover images (just like the ones on the homepage for Ambiance Pro) so the snippet(s) that work for a normal Genesis theme don't work. Instead you get a box with the page title in it.

Here's the code that comes stock in the Ambiance Pro page_blog page:

//* Reposition the entry meta in the entry header
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_do_post_title', 13 );

//* Add Ambiance grid body class
add_filter( 'body_class', 'ambiance_grid_body_class' );
function ambiance_grid_body_class( $classes ) {

$classes[] = 'ambiance-grid';
return $classes;

}

//* Customize the entry meta in the entry header
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'ambiance_post_info', 12 );
function ambiance_post_info() {

echo '<p class="entry-meta">' . do_shortcode( '[post_date]' ) . '</p>';

}

//* Remove entry content
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );

//* Remove entry meta in entry footer
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_open', 5 );
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_close', 15 );
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );

//* Remove page navigation
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content_nav', 12 );

//* Run the Genesis loop
genesis();

That results in a page that looks like this:

So when you add the snippet you get this:

As you can see, the text in the blog page still does not show, although we now have the page title inside a grey box, along with the date the blog page was created. Now if you rip out all the code that comes stock with page_blog in this theme and then add the snippet, well then everything works as expected. Of course, you lose the formatted post squares that match the home page.

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