Removing posts and sidebar from homepage: Education Pro

[kwidrick]

Hi all!

First, a few caveats:

a) I am comfortable with editing all of the files on the sites that I work on, and have a working knowledge of CSS, coding, etc. However, I'm not a true developer and am just getting started with some freelance design/development projects, mostly for friends who are patient with me.

b) I have searched these forums high and low and have tried all of the solutions suggested in past answers (I know it's annoying when someone doesn't try to find the answer first!). I have also googled. I think the issue is that the tutorials I'm trying to follow all seem to reference home.php, which I believe is no longer used on Education Pro (I see the front-page file and have been assuming that any references to home could be replaced with front-page).

c) The site I'm working on is not yet live -- we have a splash page up. I know that may make it harder to help, so I apologize.

NOW, the question. My client loves how I've customized Education Pro for her so far, but now tells me that she wants more of a static homepage, without any of her blog posts or sidebars showing up. Essentially, she wants to go from the Home Bottom widget to the Footer widgets.

(See screenshot attached of where the posts and sidebar are showing up.)

What code do I need to add to front-page.php and the stylesheet to make that happen? Tutorials I've tested (but have not worked) include:

eleven40 Pro — Remove blog posts on the front page

http://marketingpress.com/removing-blog-post-from-home-page-in-genesis/
http://my.studiopress.com/setup/more-themes/previous-versions/education-theme/

Is there a hook or tutorial I'm missing? THANKS!

[Christoph]

Hi,

I´m not sure if I understood you correctly and somehow your screenshot didn't get posted.

It sounds like all you would have to do is to add widgets to the home featured, home top or home middle widget areas...
(Appearance - Widgets)

Alternatively you can always set a static page as front page under Settings - Reading - Front page displays.

If I´m completely off target, the screenshot might help me understand better 🙂

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[kwidrick]

Sorry about that! You can jump to it on Flickr here, since it doesn't seem to want to embed: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kwidrick/21114771256/

I have widgets in the home featured, home top and home middle. Nothing in the home bottom or footer widgets right now. The posts are showing up right below the home middle.

I think I just need to comment out the posts and sidebar on the homepage, but I can't tell if that's part of the loop or something else -- and I'm stuck!

[Christoph]

Thank you.

Now I know what to do 😉

In the front-page.php you will find the following code:

if( $paged < 1 ) {

		if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-top' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle' ) ) {

			//* Add education-pro-home body class
			add_filter( 'body_class', 'education_body_class' );

			//* Remove breadcrumbs
			remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs' );

			//* Add home top widgets
			add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'education_home_top_widgets' );
         }
}

Replace it with

if( $paged < 1 ) {

		if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-featured' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-top' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle' ) ) {

			//* Add education-pro-home body class
			add_filter( 'body_class', 'education_body_class' );

			//* Remove breadcrumbs
			remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs' );

			//* Add home top widgets
			add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'education_home_top_widgets' );

			//* Remove posts from front page and show full width layout
			remove_action ('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');

			add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

		}

	}

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[markus]

Thanks Christoph, This code your shared here worked brilliantly! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and clarity!

cheers!
Markus

[Doug]

Doesn't seem to work for me - see: http://ivyplatzerweltchek.com/

[Christoph]

Hi Doug,

it looks like you have set your front page to a posts page in
Settings - Reading Settings - Front page displays - A static page - Post Page

The settings above only work if you are using the front-page.php template.
Please refer to the theme setup instructions here:
http://my.studiopress.com/setup/education-pro-theme/

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[Binh]

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and clarity!

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[tamclennan]

Hi, I've tried following this threat but am still having trouble. The site I'm working on doesn't have any blog posts, so the home page is just displaying a strip where they would be. How do I get rid of it? I already replaced the code as mentioned above.

Thanks,
Alison

http://37.60.253.240/~weinhold/

[Christoph]

Hi Alison,

around line 507 of the style.css remove or comment out padding-top: 40px; from .site-inner

.site-inner {
    clear: both;
    padding-top: 40px;
}

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[tamclennan]

Thank you, Christoph. I was hoping there might be a way to remove it from the home page, while keeping the padding on the other pages. This solution removes the padding altogether, and I don't like the way that makes the other pages look. Any suggestions?

[Christoph]

You are welcome.

You can prefix the css class with .home

.home .site-inner {...}

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[tamclennan]

That didn't seem to change the effect to the other pages. They also lost padding.

[Christoph]

Ok, I skipped a step.
Don't touch the existing .site-inner class.
But underneath add

.home .site-inner {
padding-top: 0;
}

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[tamclennan]

That did the trick! Thank you!!!

[Mayee]

As this is a related question (tweak education theme main page), so I'll post here to see if anyone can help.

I use education pro theme and this is my front page

How can I make the three images for “Life Coaching”, “5 Start Recommendations” & “Resources” align with the right and left sides of the header image like below:

http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af188/sharelord/share/3_zpst0cjwfcx.png

Which file and which line of code do I tweak?

[Mayee]

As this is a related question (tweak education theme main page), so I'll post here to see if anyone can help.

I use education pro theme and this is my front page

How can I make the three images for “Life Coaching”, “5 Start Recommendations” & “Resources” align with the right and left sides of the header image like below:

[URL=http://s1006.photobucket.com/user/sharelord/media/share/3_zpst0cjwfcx.png.html][IMG]http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af188/sharelord/share/3_zpst0cjwfcx.png[/IMG][/URL]

Which file and which line of code do I tweak?

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