Archive page layout changes

Hi Larry,

This is an issue for many of us, and frankly, it’s the worst part of using Enfold. Many of my clients are asking me to develop the same feature, but I’ve had no luck with the existing hooks. IMHO Kriesi needs to make a Blog Meta shortcode, or post a workaround using the existing Code Block shortcode. Their standard answer to date has been “just use the default editor” – which obviously is no solution at all. I am getting fed up with Kriesi digging in his heels on this issue. it just needs to be an option before the Advanced Layout Editor is suitable for Blog Posts.

I agree. In a further extend, Archive and single post pages should be able to get a custom layout with custom navigation.
I give you an example of a very annoying issue with Enfold:

One can build a custom news page with a full width submenu and let’s say image header. When I click on a news item I lose all that navigation (I can’t place my full width submenu in a single post page), I lose the header (I can’t place a custom header) and thereby suddenly I am on a single post page with only the main menu visible and losing my site navigation. Same if a user clicks on a category, date or tag I lose all my handbuild navigation and layout and I land on the archive pages where I can’t create the same layout as where the user came from.
This the most disturbing issue with enfold as there is no consistency.

I think this can be solved by allowing us to build an archive page and single post page using the layout editor. Or somehow add 2 elements in the layout editor which contains “single post” and “post archive”.

Enfold is great because we can build complex navigations, but somehow it is not very userfriendly now as one can get completely lost by landing on a single post or archive page.

Thanks for considering a solution for this. It will only make Enfold the most powerful template ever ;)

S

Actually, I’ve just found the solution.
Using a custom blog layout page build with the advanced layout editor YOU CAN show your archives and tags pages in “grid layout” style. Following this “Change archive (category/tag) blog style” tutorial, replace it by this code in your child theme function.php:

Categories

add_filter('avf_blog_style','avia_change_category_blog_layout', 10, 2); 
function avia_change_category_blog_layout($layout, $context){
if($context == 'archive') $layout = 'blog-grid';
return $layout;}

Tags

add_filter('avf_blog_style','avia_change_tag_blog_layout', 10, 2); 
function avia_change_tag_blog_layout($layout, $context){
if($context == 'tag') $layout = 'blog-grid';
return $layout;}

That’s it !

Now I don’t understand why all Kriesi stuff’s telling one would need to modify the archive.php file or even hire a freelancer..?

@Elliott,

as I mentioned this grid-code is useful using “the advanced layout editor” style in Enfold child theme options > Blog Layout. As the blog style doesn’t allow to show a custom blog layout that on may want to have.

Cheers,