New blog page template to override the default blog template?

[Stela]

Hello,

I am trying to create a new template for the Blog page, so I can customize it but the Blog page is not taking the new template.

I created a file page_blog.php in the child theme directory with the following contents to test the template:

<?php

//* Template Name: Blog

add_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content', 'theme_prefix_show_notice' );
function theme_prefix_show_notice() {
	echo '<p class="notice">This page has a override blog template page_blog</p>';
}
genesis();

I also set the new template in the page settings but still it is not working.

How can I fix this?
Thank you!

[Brad Dalton]

Try this solution

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[Stela]

Hi Brad,
Thank you for the reply but this is not the solution for me.
I would like to assign new template page_blog.php to the default Blog page and add my customizations there.

Is there a way to this?

I am following the instructions from here:
https://my.studiopress.com/documentation/snippets/miscellaneous/show-content-above-posts-on-blog-page/

however the default Blog page doesn't take the new template page_blog.php (even if i select -Blog- from the Template dropdown in the Page Attributes meta box)

[Brad Dalton]

That's because they removed the template from Genesis. What you can do now is set the posts page in Reading settings and use any template for that page.

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[Stela]

Ok, i created new page and assigned my new blog template page_blog.php for it (in Page Attribute Template dropdown).
However, once i set this page in Reading settings as 'Posts page', it turns back using the the default blog template at the front-end.

Does this mean that i can not have a blog template for my customizations and have to use functions.php for all the modifications?

...or I am doing something not correct?

[Brad Dalton]

Try this code to load your template on your posts page.

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[Stela]

Perfect!!! It is working now.

Thank you so so much, Brad 🙂

For documentation, in case someone need it, in Brad's code above, I replaced is_singular('page') with is_home('page') || is_archive('page'), so the new custom blog template is applied to all blog type pages.

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