Custom Blog Style Category Page – Lifestyle Pro

[Kim Turcotte]

I am trying to create a testimonials page template where I can pull in all the posts with the category "applause" using a widget area and using the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified which let's me choose whether or not to include title, excerpt or content etc. I would also like to be able to have text that shows above the content I am pulling onto the template.

I had done this in the past on the older Lifestyle theme by creating a custom page template and registering the sidebar referenced in the custom page template. I tried copying what I did before, but it didn't work with Lifestyle Pro and I have no clue why.

Here is an example of what I want it to do (this is the old Lifestyle Theme): http://www.goddesslifestyleplan.com/applause-testimonials/

Here is what I did on the new site I am working on:

I started by registering an Applause Sidebar with this code added to my functions.php

genesis_register_sidebar(array(
    'id'        => 'applause',
    'name'=>'Applause',
    'description' => 'This is the widget to customize content on the Applause page template.',
));

Then I created a page template named: page_applause.php

Here is the code I have in it (this code is from a similar page I created when using the older version of the Lifestyle Theme)

<?php
// Template Name: Applause Page
// For backward compatibility

add_action('genesis_after_post_content', 'featured_bottom_after_content');
function featured_bottom_after_content() {
    dynamic_sidebar('Applause');
}

require_once(PARENT_DIR. '/index.php');
?>

When I select the Applause template and try to pull in the content with the featured widget amplified, it isn't working. 🙁

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

http://www.goddesslifestyleplan.com/magic/applause-testimonials/

[Marcy]

The hook 'genesis_after_post_content' is pre-HTML5 hooks; all the Pro themes are HTML5 which has different hooks.

I think that I would try using 'genesis_after_entry_content' or maybe 'genesis_after_entry', depending on where you actually want it.

There are 2 newer plugins to use for your custom post types.
Genesis Sandbox Featured Content Widget - https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-featured-content-widget/
Featured Custom Post Type - https://github.com/calliaweb/featured-custom-post-type-widget-for-genesis

The hook guide is in your MyStudioPress under Tutorials. It has the HTML5 and older hooks.

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[Kim Turcotte]

Marcy,

Thanks so much! This did the trick!

Kim

[Marcy]

I'm glad it worked!

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