Showcase Pro Blog Template?

[ChristineLeiser]

As another thread addressed, the Showcase Pro child theme does not include a blog template. Following the instructions on that other thread, causes the blog page to become the home page, that's not what I'm looking to do. I want the blog page to be another page with all blog posts showing, accessible from the menu on the home page. Can anyone point me in the direction of making a blog page template for use in that manner?

Thank you.

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[Brad Dalton]

Create a file named page_blog.php with a template header like this

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[ChristineLeiser]

thank you, Brad. There is already a page_blog.php - It's content is as follows:

<?php
/**
* Showcase Pro
*
* This file edits the blog page page template in the Showcase Pro Theme.
*
* @package Showcase
* @author Bloom
* @license GPL-2.0+
* @link http://my.studiopress.com/themes/showcase/
*/

// Add the with-page-header class
add_filter( 'body_class', 'showcase_blog_page_header_body_class' );
function showcase_blog_page_header_body_class( $classes ) {

$posts_page_id = get_option('page_for_posts');

if( has_post_thumbnail($posts_page_id) )
$classes[] = 'with-page-header';

return $classes;

}

// Add the Blog Page Header
remove_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'showcase_page_header', 8 );
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'showcase_blog_page_header', 8 );
function showcase_blog_page_header() {
$output = false;
$posts_page_id = get_option('page_for_posts');
$image = get_post_thumbnail_id( $posts_page_id );

if( $image ) {

// Remove the page title because we're going to add it later
remove_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_posts_page_heading' );

$image = wp_get_attachment_image_src( $image, 'showcase_hero' );
$background_image_class = 'with-background-image';
$title = get_the_title($posts_page_id);

$output .= '<div class="page-header bg-primary with-background-image" style="background-image: url(' . $image[0] . ');"><div class="wrap">';
$output .= '<div class="header-content"><h1>' . $title . '</h1></div>';
$output .= '</div></div>';
}

if( $output )
echo $output;
}

genesis();

I'm not sure what's missing that keeps it from providing me with a blog page template.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

[Victor Font]

Your page_blog.php is missing Template Name: Blog in the header.

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[ChristineLeiser]

Thank you Victor!
Does it matter where in the file I put that?
Just "Template Name: Blog" ?

[Victor Font]

It matters. You place it in the header comments prefaced with the asterisk.

/**
* Showcase Pro
*
* Template Name: Blog
*
* This file edits the blog page page template in the Showcase Pro Theme.
*
* @package Showcase
* @author Bloom
* @license GPL-2.0+
* @link http://my.studiopress.com/themes/showcase/
*/

---

Regards,

Victor
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[ChristineLeiser]

Perfect! Thank you so much! I was definitely over complicating things (I do that all the time.) again, thank you.

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