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Thanks carasmo.
I think I had most of this figured out. I actually had the /news/ blog home page looking the way I wanted it by using remove_action/add_action in functions.php to move certain things around (like from genesis_entry_header to genesis_entry_content) and add additional <div>s that I needed. But then I noticed that some of the changes had negatively affected the format of the individual post page.
I was having a stupid moment. I think you've given me what I needed to make the changes affect ONLY the archive type pages that loop and show multiple posts but not affect the single post pages.
Thanks!
JimI respectfully disagree...
I AM using the child theme's front-page.php even though I changed the front page to display a static page. It is being used by default because of the order of precedence that the framework uses to find a template for the home page. I have tweaked the code in the child theme's front-page.php to add some additional functionality AND I created those widgets that I wanted to use that come as part of the template out of the box. So 80% of the home page is like the demo and 20% is new functionality. But that is not my problem. My "front page" is working perfectly.
My problem is that I ALSO want to have a blog home page live at /news/ AND I don't like the default blog format that is being rendered by the Genesis Framework for that blog home page, category pages, archive pages. I want to move some things around and add some additional HTML elements for all of those (blog home page, category pages, archive pages). I would like to do this in a single template that used to override the framework for blog home page, category pages, archive pages, but I don't know the order of precedence that the framework uses to determine which template to apply to those pages.
I "believe" if a specific template is assigned in the Edit Page screen in admin then it will use that. But if not, then it looks for other child template names (archive.php? blog.php? other?). If it can't find any of those then I "believe" it defaults to some file like index.php in the framework.
I'm trying to determine what files it looks for and in what order for blog home page, category pages, archive pages. I don't mind creating a new template (say archive.php) that doesn't come with the child them, but really don't want to have to manually assign it to every new category, archive, tags, etc. type page where I might want to list teasers for and links to say 10 posts.
I've read every word of the docs for the child theme probably 25-30 times. While they give you the basics for setting up the theme to look like the demo, it doesn't answer this question. This particular child theme seems to be written for a static home page with NO blog. All blog functionality seems to be provided through the framework which I cannot modify.
Ooops. Sorry.
Ignore everything above after the 3rd sentence. I have another post about that problem where I have both a static home page and a blog home page at /blog/.
Actually I am doing exactly that. On the static home page I am using the Genesis Featured Posts widget to "feature" 4 posts. I going to use the Genesis Featured Pages widget to also feature 4 resource pages. But I still have a need to have blog home page that shows the 10-20 most recent blog posts.
WordPress is totally capable of being used to implement both a static home page and separate blog home page in a sub-folder. Just a short-coming of this particular theme that you can have either a static page OR a blog home page with the layout your want, but not both. Every other blog related page (categories, archives, posts, etc.) look at the default theme layout for the blog when rendering. But the front-page.php template does not
I guess I have to ad some code myself to front-page.php to somehow lookup what the Theme Setting value is for the default blog layout, and set it when it is used to render the blog home page at /blog/. That was the code snippet I was looking for and have been unable to find. I don't really want to hard code the front-page.php template to a particular layout because if I change the Theme Settings for the blog layout, I want ALL blog pages to change, not all except the blog home page.
Guess I'll keep digging.... But it's frustrating as I'm wasting many days on this that I should be using to build out the rest of the site.
Thanks Brad for the link. I understand that WordPress itself can handle HTTPS. But I am more concerned with whether or not the HTML rendered by the Genesis Framework and associated child themes (specifically Showcase) would contain HTTPS links for all referenced objects like images, CSS, JS, canonical link elements, etc. if I set the WordPress Address and Site Address settings in Settings -> General to HTTPS URLs.
If the theme/framework does not render all references as HTTPS in cases where the WordPress Address and Site Address settings are HTTPS URLs, then its a bad user experience due to the browser warnings that visitors are going to see.