Modifying visible elements in "Video" Post Format on Mindstream theme

[erh]

I am using Mindstream theme. Most of my posts are format "Standard", but I just made a post which has a post format of "Video". The title is not showing up in the blogroll or post page.

I was able to get around the post page by manually adding a title with an H1 tag. But I can't figure out how to get that title to show up in the Blogroll.

Example here, notice the first post is a link to a video but does not include a title:
http://www.practicalnetworking.net/

How can I modify the post format "Video" to also display the title in the blogroll.

Thanks.

http://www.practicalnetworking.net/

[Victor Font]

How did you add the video post format? Did you use the this snippet: https://my.studiopress.com/documentation/snippets/post-formats/add-post-formats/?

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[erh]

It was added from the beginning when I downloaded / applied the theme. I did not do anything special to "enable" the formats.

I did find this in my themes/mindstream/functions.php file:

/** Add support for post formats */
add_theme_support( 'post-formats', array( 'aside', 'audio', 'chat', 'gallery', 'image', 'link', 'quote', 'status', 'video' ) );
add_theme_support( 'genesis-post-format-images' );

Is that relevant?

[Victor Font]

I downloaded Mindstream and looked through the code. Certain post elements are removed on purpose by the theme author for posts that have a post format. If you open functions.php, you'll find the following code at line 33:

add_action( 'genesis_before_post', 'mindstream_remove_elements' );

Comment this line out and it will return the title.

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[erh]

Victor! Thank you so much for doing this, I really appreciate your help!

I'm afraid that didn't quite work though. When I commented out that line, I got this error when loading the blog:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '}' in /home/practi59/public_html/wp-content/themes/mindstream/functions.php on line 56

I had to rollback.

Line 56 is the closing bracket of the mindstream_remove_elements function:

function mindstream_remove_elements() {

    // Remove if post has format
    if ( get_post_format() ) {
        remove_action( 'genesis_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
        remove_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );
        remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );
    }
    // Add back, as post has no format
    else {
        add_action( 'genesis_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
        add_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );
        add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );
    }

}   <--- this is line 56

I'm beginning to think the removal of line 33 prevented the "add_action" calls in the "else" clause in the function before to not run, and that is what caused the error... hrmmm..

[erh]

Victor! I must thank you again, I think you lead me to the right answer.

I commented the IF clause, and the brackets of the ELSE clause, causing the "add_actions" to run every time, no matter what. That seemed to not break my blog, and it also enabled all the titles (et al) on the video post format post.

I cleaned it up and commented the poop out of it so I remember what changes I made.

You probably know more than I... are changes to the themes functions.php file permanent? Am I going to lose all these next time I updated wordpress?

Final function:

function mindstream_remove_elements() {

/*** EDIT 9/26 - this section removes post title (et al) from non default post formats
 *** It was commented out to disable the removal of these attributes. BUT, the "else"
 *** clause is what enables them for all posts. A copy of the contents of the "else" clause
 *** has been added below. To revert, delete the three "add_actions" immediately after this
 *** comment block, and uncomment this block
 ***
        // Remove if post has format
        if ( get_post_format() ) {
                remove_action( 'genesis_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
                remove_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );
                remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );
        }
        // Add back, as post has no format
        else {
                add_action( 'genesis_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
                add_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );
                add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );
        }

 *** THE "add_action" lines below were duplicated from the "else" clause above
*/
        add_action( 'genesis_post_title', 'genesis_do_post_title' );
        add_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );
        add_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );

}

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