Creating a Home Page Template

[BlueSunInc]

My client wants to create a template that's a duplicate of the home page. So far he's gotten the template set up, but neither of us can get the blog post excerpts to show up like they do on the home page itself (his reason for making a dupe of the home page is for some split testing he wants to do).

Can anyone figure out what's missing and tell me what to add? I'm feeling there's a function that needs adding/changing, I just can't see where or what it is. Thanks

http://www.teamrcia.com/homepage2/

[AnitaC]

Is the grid loop in your code. It's hard to help when we don't have say, what your functions.php file looks like. But are they the same thing?

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[BlueSunInc]

Here's the functions.php file:

<?php

//* Start the engine

include_once( get_template_directory() . '/lib/init.php' );

//* Set Localization (do not remove)

load_child_theme_textdomain( 'streamline', apply_filters( 'child_theme_textdomain', get_stylesheet_directory() . '/languages', 'streamline' ) );

//* Child theme (do not remove)

define( 'CHILD_THEME_NAME', __( 'Streamline Pro Theme', 'streamline' ) );

define( 'CHILD_THEME_URL', 'http://my.studiopress.com/streamline/' );

define( 'CHILD_THEME_VERSION', '2.0.0' );

//* Add HTML5 markup structure

add_theme_support( 'html5' );

//* Add viewport meta tag for mobile browsers

add_theme_support( 'genesis-responsive-viewport' );

//* Enqueue PT Sans Google font

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'streamline_google_fonts' );

function streamline_google_fonts() {

	wp_enqueue_style( 'google-fonts', '//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans', array(), CHILD_THEME_VERSION );

	

}

//* Enqueue Responsive Menu Script

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'streamline_enqueue_responsive_script' );

function streamline_enqueue_responsive_script() {

	wp_enqueue_script( 'streamline-responsive-menu', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_directory' ) . '/js/responsive-menu.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0.0' );

}

//* Add support for additional color style options

add_theme_support( 'genesis-style-selector', array( 

	'streamline-pro-blue'  => __( 'Streamline Pro Blue', 'streamline' ), 

	'streamline-pro-green' => __( 'Streamline Pro Green', 'streamline' ),

) );

//* Add new image sizes

add_image_size( 'post-image', 760, 360, TRUE );

add_image_size( 'widget-image', 295, 100, TRUE );

//* Unregister layout settings

genesis_unregister_layout( 'content-sidebar-sidebar' );

genesis_unregister_layout( 'sidebar-content-sidebar' );

genesis_unregister_layout( 'sidebar-sidebar-content' );

//* Unregister secondary sidebar

unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-alt' );

//* Add support for custom background

add_theme_support( 'custom-background' );

//* Add support for custom header

add_theme_support( 'custom-header', array(

	'header_image'    => '',

	'header-selector' => '.site-title a',

	'header-text'     => false,
	
	'flex-width'    => true,
	'width'         => 550,
	'flex-height'    => true,
	'height'        => 180,

) );

//* Add support for 3-column footer widgets

add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 3 );

//* Reposition the breadcrumbs

remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs' );

add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs' );

//* Customize breadcrumbs display

add_filter( 'genesis_breadcrumb_args', 'streamline_breadcrumb_args' );

function streamline_breadcrumb_args( $args ) {

	$args['home'] = __( 'Home', 'streamline' );

	$args['sep'] = ' ';

	$args['list_sep'] = ', '; // Genesis 1.5 and later

	$args['prefix'] = '<div class="breadcrumb">';

	$args['suffix'] = '</div>';

	$args['labels']['prefix'] = '<span class="icon-home">';

	$args['labels']['suffix'] = '</div>';

	return $args;

}

//* Remove default post image

remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 );

//* Add post image above post title

add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'streamline_post_image', 1 );

function streamline_post_image() {

	if ( is_page() || ! genesis_get_option( 'content_archive_thumbnail' ) )

		return;

	

	if ( $image = genesis_get_image( array( 'format' => 'url', 'size' => genesis_get_option( 'image_size' ) ) ) ) {

		printf( '<a href="%s" rel="bookmark"><img class="post-photo" src="%s" alt="%s" /></a>', get_permalink(), $image, the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ) );

	}

	

}

//* Reposition the post info function

remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );

add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 2 );

//* Customize the post info function

add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'post_info_filter' );

function post_info_filter( $post_info ) {

	if ( !is_page() ) {

    	$post_info = '[post_author_posts_link] [post_date] [post_comments] [post_edit]';

    	return $post_info;

	}

	

}

//* Add the after entry section

add_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'streamline_after_entry', 10 );

function streamline_after_entry() {

	

	if ( ! is_singular( 'post' ) ) return;

	

	genesis_widget_area( 'after-entry', array(

		'before' => '<div class="after-entry widget-area">',

		'after'  => '</div>',

   ) );

   

}

//* Modify the size of the Gravatar in the author box

add_filter( 'genesis_author_box_gravatar_size', 'streamline_author_box_gravatar_size' );

function streamline_author_box_gravatar_size( $size ) {

    return '80';

    

}

//* Remove comment form allowed tags

add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'streamline_remove_comment_form_allowed_tags' );

function streamline_remove_comment_form_allowed_tags( $defaults ) {

	$defaults['comment_notes_after'] = '';

	return $defaults;

	

}

// Register widget areas

genesis_register_sidebar( array(

	'id'          => 'home-featured-1',

	'name'        => __( 'Home - Featured 1', 'streamline' ),

	'description' => __( 'This is the first featured column on the homepage.', 'streamline' ),

) );

genesis_register_sidebar( array(

	'id'          => 'home-featured-2',

	'name'        => __( 'Home - Featured 2', 'streamline' ),

	'description' => __( 'This is the second featured column on the homepage.', 'streamline' ),

) );

genesis_register_sidebar( array(

	'id'          => 'home-featured-3',

	'name'        => __( 'Home - Featured 3', 'streamline' ),

	'description' => __( 'This is the third featured column on the homepage.', 'streamline' ),

) );

genesis_register_sidebar( array(

	'id'          => 'after-entry',

	'name'        => __( 'After Entry', 'streamline' ),

	'description' => __( 'This is the after entry section.', 'streamline' ),

) );

//* Display a custom favicon
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_load_favicon', 'sp_favicon_filter' );
function sp_favicon_filter( $favicon_url ) {
	return 'http://www.teamrcia.com/favicon.ico';
}

[Lorraine]

You should be looking at the template file the client created. This would be a copy of home.php.

This is what calls the loop, you could try adding manually. I haven't tested this and can't say for sure but that is where I would start playing...

add_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');

Or yesterday I created a template using

<div class="entry-content">
    <?php the_content(); ?>
 </div>'; 

http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop This should answer a few questions, as will http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates

[BlueSunInc]

That makes sense, Lorraine. Here's the template code. Where would I insert the loop then?

<?php

/*
 * Template Name: Home Page 2
 */
/**
 * This file adds the Home Page to the Streamline Pro Theme.
 *
 * @author StudioPress
 * @package Streamline Pro
 * @subpackage Customizations
 */

add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'streamline_home_genesis_meta' );
/**
 * Add widget support for homepage. If no widgets active, display the default loop.
 *
 */
function streamline_home_genesis_meta() {

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-1' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-2' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-3' ) ) {
	
		//* Force content-sidebar layout setting
		add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar' );
	
		// Add streamline-pro-home body class
		add_filter( 'body_class', 'streamline_body_class' );
	
		// Add homepage widgets
		add_action( 'genesis_before_content_sidebar_wrap', 'streamline_homepage_widgets' );

	}
}

function streamline_body_class( $classes ) {

	$classes[] = 'streamline-pro-home';
	return $classes;
	
}

function streamline_homepage_widgets() {

	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-1' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-2' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured-3' ) ) {

		echo '<div class="home-featured">';
	
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-1', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-featured-1 widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
		
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-2', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-featured-2 widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
		
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-featured-3', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-featured-3 widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );

		echo '</div><!-- end #home-featured -->';	

	}

}

genesis();

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