Custom page template struggles

[Scott Pruett]

Hi folks,

I'm building a site on Genesis w/ the Epik child theme, and need a custom page template to support this plugin:

http://codecanyon.net/item/team-showcase-wordpress-plugin/4936368

Basically, it creates individual pages for team members and then provides shortcodes for displaying a grid or table of said team members, which can be created based on categories and used anywhere. I'm mentioning this because it solves a problem and I want to use the plugin instead of creating pages for each individual team member.

The issue is that the instructions say to duplicate page.php and rename the copy to single-tshowcase.php. I've created a single-tshowcase.php in the child theme folder, and it works, but I can't figure out how to remove the post info, specifically the date/author.

The page template doesn't get selected for use by the plugin's pages; it just gets called based on the filename. Here's what's in the new page template file. What am I missing?

<?php

remove_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );

genesis(); 

Thanks!
Scott

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[AnitaC]

Epik is a product of Appfinite.com. Wes, the developers, provides support for his themes here. You might want to post this there since his files are prepared a little differently.

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[Scott Pruett]

Thanks – I'll do that, though the process of creating new/custom page templates is a framework thing, right?

[Scott Pruett]

Potentially relevant conversation w/ the plugin developer:

http://codecanyon.net/item/team-showcase-wordpress-plugin/4936368/comments?page=11&filter=all#comment_5542768

[Brad Dalton]

You may find it a challenge to customize a plugin like that with Genesis.

Here's something i coded recently for Genesis http://wpsites.net/web-design/team-members-staff-authors-or-user-profile-page-template-for-genesis/

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[Scott Pruett]

Thanks Brad. All I need to do is remove the post info from the page template, nothing more. I'm not modifying the plugin at all.

Your template looks really good, though it's not quite what I'm looking for.

Cheers,
Scott

[Brad Dalton]

Try this

//* Remove the post info function
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 5 );

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[Scott Pruett]

I wish I could say that worked, but it didn't. Thanks though!

[Brad Dalton]

Got it from a SP theme template.

Works for HTML 5 themes only.

What theme are you using?

Otherwise, try one of these http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/

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[Scott Pruett]

Thanks Brad. I'm using Epik.

Turns out it works by adding the snippet in functions.php, not the custom page template.

This affects the blog too, which isn't ideal, but at least it fixes the problem for now.

[Scott Pruett]

Update: editing the page template file works now. I'm not sure what happened, but relaunching the FTP client (Yummy FTP, mac) and the text editor (TextWrangler, which loads/edits/saves through Yummy FTP) seemed to fix the problem. I was editing function.php through the dashboard and thecustom page template through FTP.

#frustrating

[Brad Dalton]

You can do it conditionally http://wpsites.net/web-design/modify-post-info-genesis/

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