Layout settings not working on blog page:

[jgk]

Hi!

I'm using a customized version of the metro theme.

I'm trying to use a full width content for all the pages in my site, except for the blog page and individual blog posts.

Under theme settings I've set the default layout to full width content. On the blog page I've set the layout to content-sidebar.

When I view the blog page it is still showing full width content. The individual blog posts are displaying content/sidebar correctly.

I've cleared the cache and viewed the page in incognito mode, but can't figure this one out. Thanks for any help.

Jay

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[Brad Dalton]

Try this:

https://gist.github.com/braddalton/5846973

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[Brad Dalton]

Set the default layout as full width in the Genesis > Theme Settings > Default Layout.

Then copy the code from the view raw link and add the code to the end of your child themes functions.php file using a text editor.

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[jgk]

Thank you Brad!

I followed your instructions. When I click preview changes from the blog page it displays content-sidebar, but when I view the live page it seems to still display full width content. I've cleared my cache and the wpengine cache, this doesn't seem to be making a difference.

Anything else to try? Also the breadcrumbs on the preview says home / home if that offers any clues. Thanks!

Jay

[Brad Dalton]

You could try changing the conditional for the blog page template to the i.d for the blog page which you can grab from the source code. I know wpengine have caching that can take time to flush which makes it hard for CSS changes as well.

if (is_single() || is_page_template( 'page_blog.php' ) ) {

Change to this and replace 007 with the i.d for your blog page.

if (is_single() || is_page( '007' ) ) {

The conditional tag for the blog page seems to work sometimes and not at other times.

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[jgk]

Thanks Brad,

For some reason it's still not working. I've kicked this over to studiopress tech support incase something is going wrong under the hood. Since this doesn't seem to be an easy fix.

Thank you. Cheers,

Jay

[jgk]

The fix was:

I had selected a static blog page under Settings > Reading instead of using the blog page template included with Genesis.

Under Settings > Reading, make sure a static page is not selected for the blog, then create a page and assign the blog page template to it from the template dropdown on the right hand side of the editor.

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