Conditional Statement Not Working to Change Site Title on Blog Page

[Brad West]

I'm trying to change the site-title text for my blog page. Any ideas why the below isn't working?

add_action( 'genesis_site_title', 'lifechange_blog_title' );
function lifechange_blog_title() {
  if ( is_page( 'blog' ) ) {
    add_filter( 'genesis_seo_title', 'custom_genesis_seo_title', 10, 1 );
    function custom_genesis_seo_title( $title ) {
      $title = '<h1 itemprop="headline" class="site-title">The Life Change Blog</h1>';
      return $title;
    }
  }
}

http://www.thelifechangepeople.com/blog/

[Brad Dalton]

You could create a custom blog page template and use code in it as the conditional may not always work on the blog page template.

Rather than filter it, you can then simply remove the default and add back a new one.

Otherwise, try the filter in your functions file and play around with the conditional:

 
add_filter( 'genesis_seo_title', 'custom_genesis_seo_title', 10, 1 );
function custom_genesis_seo_title( $title ) {
if ( is_your_conditional() ) {
      $title = '<h1 itemprop="headline" class="site-title">The Life Change Blog</h1>';
      return $title;
    }
  }

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[Brad West]

I've tried creating a blog template, but I couldn't get it to work. First it doesn't change the title, but worse it doesn't display any blog posts. Do you know of any tutorials for this?

As for the conditional, the one above is in the functions file, but I can't get it to work. I tried is_page( 'blog' ), is_page( 'The Life Change Blog' ), is_page( 27 ), is_singular( 'blog' ), is_singular( 'The Life Change Blog' ) and is_singular( 27 ). None of these work. I've also tried hooking it in different places: add_action( 'genesis_site_title', 'lifechange_blog_title' );, add_action( 'genesis_seo_title', 'lifechange_blog_title' ); and add_action( 'genesis_header', 'lifechange_blog_title' );. None of this makes any difference either.

[Brad Dalton]

I do have several tutorials on these topics for members only http://wpsites.net/web-design/add-content-before-posts-blog-page-only/

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[Brad West]

I found some discussion on StackExchange that was helpful. I decided to try again with the Blog Template, and used the below. It's working for me.

<?php

/**
  Template Name: Life Change Blog
*/

//* Replace Site Title text
add_filter( 'genesis_seo_title', 'custom_genesis_seo_title', 10, 1 );
function custom_genesis_seo_title( $title ) {
	$title = "<h1 itemprop='headline' class='site-title'>The Life Change Blog</h1>";
	return $title;
}

//* Replace the loop.
remove_action( 'genesis_loop',  'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop',  'genesis_custom_loop' );

//* Change the content archive and loop args.
add_action( 'genesis_pre_get_option_content_archive', 'child_post_content_archive' );
add_filter( 'genesis_custom_loop_args', 'child_loop_args' );

genesis();

//* Change default content to excerpts on this page.
function child_post_content_archive() {
    return 'excerpts';
}

/**
 * Use WP_Query args.
 *
 * @link {http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query}
 */
function child_loop_args() {

    return array(
        posts_per_page => 5,
    );
}

[Brad West]

Although, if someone can explain why that conditional in the original post isn't working, I'd love to know.

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