blog template page customization

[jtdatawork]

I need to add a photo before the content on the blog template page only. How can I do this?

Thanks!

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[Brad Dalton]

Use a conditional tag (for the blog page template or post i.d) with a custom function or the Genesis simple hooks plugin. http://www.studiopress.com/plugins/simple-hooks

if (is_page_template( 'blog.php' ))

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#Is_a_Page_Template

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[jtdatawork]

Sorry to be so thick, but I'm not good at php. I tried to put the following into the before content simple hook block but nothing shows up...

Not sure if it's because the code is wrong, but if I just put the photo url in, it shows up, albeit on all pages. So this seemed logical. What am I doing wrong?

<?php if (is_page_template( ‘blog.php’ )) {?>

<img src="http://www2.denisemazzola.com/wp-content/uploads/b-blog.jpg">

<?php }?>

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[jtdatawork]

Update, I tried this:

<?php if (is_page_template( ‘page_blog.php’ )) {?>
<div class="blog-page">
<?php }?>

And added the photo in the css to the class .blog-page. This almost worked. The photo does show up now, but it also seems to be affecting the regular pages as the photo can be seem behind the banners on the regular site pages. see http://www2.denisemazzola.com/become-a-dog-professional-2/

On the blog page it looks like this http://www2.denisemazzola.com/blogging-about-dogs/

Why isn't it excluding the photo from the regular pages? Help! My client wants to launch this site in the next few days. I thought this would be simple. Boy was I wrong. 🙁

 

 

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[Brad Dalton]

The code i gave you is only a solution for the conditional tag. You'll need to write the code and include the conditional tag.  Maybe Nick can help if you send a email to support.

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[Brad Dalton]

http://dreamwhisperdesigns.com/genesis-tutorials/add-content-genesis-blog-page-template/

Try this.

What i did was register a new widget area and hook it in using a conditional tag but i also added a page_blog template in the child theme.

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[jtdatawork]

Hi Brad,
Thanks! That got me almost there. You are officially my new hero.

I did not have to register the widget, I just added the code you pointed me to, to my page_blog template and the background in the style sheet started showing. So now I have a blog template page with the correct image showing. The only problem is things are not displaying right. The background image is off about 5 px and there is a page title ABOVE the image pushing it down the page, and which I designated in my theme functions to NOT show up (any of my page titles).

Any thoughts on how I can correct these final problems?

 

 

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[Brad Dalton]

You can align the image using the Advanced Image Settings horizontally or vertically.

You can also hide the title using CSS

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[jtdatawork]

I hit a snag doing this, turns out my cleint want to use categories, meaning that I will need an archives template instead of (or in additon to) a blog page template. Do you think it will it work to add this template just like I did the Blog Page?Thnx.

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[jtdatawork]

Yay! OK! Hiding the title with CSS - worked great!

Changing the alignment on the image, I figured out with a tweak to CSS also. I had a content padding that was throwing it off.

Thank you! The last little problem I'm having really should be in a new thread, so I'm going to mark this resolved. Brad, thanks so much for taking the time to help. It was a lifesaver!

 

 

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