Customize category pages to look like "ALB build" blog posts (thumbnails, etc).

Hey AlexR,

Thank you for the inquiry.

Have you tried doing a page redirect to transfer the user from the actual category page to a custom one? You can use either of the following plugins to automatically redirect a URL to another.

// https://wordpress.org/plugins/eps-301-redirects/
// https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

The more difficult solution is to modify the archive.php file manually.

To enable the read more link for the category pages, you can add this filter in the functions.php file.

function ava_change_blog_archive_style() {	
	global $avia_config;
	if(!is_single()){ $avia_config['blog_content'] = "excerpt_read_more"; }
}
add_action('get_header', 'ava_change_blog_archive_style');

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

Thank you for the update.

Page redirect is not necessary but since you wanted the category page to look similar to a page created using the advance layout builder, then a page redirect should help, otherwise, you will have to manually modify the archive.php file and add the builder elements manually.

In order to copy a builder element and add it in a template, you will have to extract the shortcode directly from the advance layout builder. To do that, you have to set the builder to debug mode and once set, a textarea or field will display under the builder. This textarea contains the builder shortcode, which can be copied and can be added manually in a template such as the archive.php file.

To enable the debug mode, please check the following documentation.

// https://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/intro-to-layout-builder/#debug-mode

You should also add this filter in the functions.php file to properly render the shortcodes in the template.

function avf_custom_exec_sc_only_mod( $exec_sc_only, $obj_sc, $atts, $content, $shortcodename, $fake ) {
	return true;
}

add_filter( 'avf_alb_exec_sc_only', 'avf_custom_exec_sc_only_mod', 10, 6 );

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

@s29ers: Which blog layout are you currently using? You can find the Blog Layout option in the Enfold > Blog Layout panel. The main blog page and the archive pages should follow this layout.

The instructions above are only necessary when the blog layout is set to the last option or when you are using the advance layout builder to build the main blog page.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hi,

You can use the avf_blog_style filter to adjust the blog layout of the archive pages. Please check the following link for more info.

// https://kriesi.at/documentation/enfold/blog-post/#change-archive-categorytag-blog-style

And these are your other blog layout options aside from the default.

multi-big = 'Multi Author Blog (displays Gravatar of the article author beside the entry and feature images above)
single-small = 'Single Author, small preview Pic (no author picture is displayed, feature image is small)
single-big =  __( 'Single Author, big preview Pic (no author picture is displayed, feature image is big)
blog-grid = __( 'Grid Layout', 'avia_framework' )																				
bloglist-simple = __( 'List Layout - Simple (Title and meta information only)', 'avia_framework' )										
bloglist-compact = __( 'List Layout - Compact (Title and icon only)', 'avia_framework' )												
bloglist-excerpt = __( 'List Layout - Excerpt (Title, meta information and excerpt only)', 'avia_framework' )	

Best regards,
Ismael