How to deal with custom post type and a relative custom archive page layout

Hi Ismael, sorry for the late reply but I was ways the whole week.
I did two attempts following your suggestions, but didn’t work. Here the code for each one.
First of all I created a blog page where the standard post should be visible, and I set the child theme options for blog layout as a list (that’s how I want to see my standard post). Now the idea is that if I select a specific term taxonomy from the custom type posts (projects) I want them shown in a grid format.
Here my two attempts to do it.

ATTEMPT 1
I used the is_post_type_archive function within the archive-project.php, simplifying it for my purposes:

 //above there's the code for handling the header, which I didn't change
		<div class='container_wrap container_wrap_first main_color <?php avia_layout_class( 'main' ); ?>'>
			<div class='container template-blog '>
				<main class='content <?php avia_layout_class( 'content' ); ?> units' <?php avia_markup_helper(array('context' => 'content','post_type'=>'post'));?>>
					<?php 
						$tds =  term_description(); 
						if($tds)
						{
							echo "<div class='category-term-description'>{$tds}</div>";
						}
					?>
                    <?php
                    if ( is_post_type_archive( 'projects' ) ) {
          				global $posts;
                        $post_ids = array();
                        foreach($posts as $post) $post_ids[] = $post->ID;
                        if(!empty($post_ids))
                        {
                            $atts   = array(
                                'type' => 'grid',
                                'items' => get_option('posts_per_page'),
                                'columns' => 5,
                                'class' => 'avia-builder-el-no-sibling',
                                'paginate' => 'yes',
                                'use_main_query_pagination' => 'yes',
                                'custom_query' => array( 'post__in'=>$post_ids, 'post_type'=>get_post_types() )
                            );
							/**
							 * @since 4.5.5
							 * @return array
							 */
							$atts = apply_filters( 'avf_post_slider_args', $atts, 'archive' );
                            $blog = new avia_post_slider( $atts );
                            $blog->query_entries();
                            echo "<div class='entry-content-wrapper'>".$blog->html()."</div>";
    					}
                   
                    ?>
				<!--end content-->
				</main>

ATTEMPT 2
I still have an archive-projects.php which is the exact copy of archive.php
I added to my functions.php the following code:

add_filter('avf_blog_style','avia_change_category_blog_layout_2', 10, 2); 
function avia_change_category_blog_layout_2($layout, $context){
if($context == 'archive-projects') $layout = 'blog-grid';
return $layout;
}

In all 2 attempts, the blog layout (list) set in the child theme options overwrites the codes for the archive-projects.php. So if I click on a term taxonomy of the custom type posts, they appear as a list, like the blog page instead of appearing as a grid.
Could you help me please?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by elenapoliti.

Hi Ismael, unfortunately your code didn’t work. I still see my projects listed as a list instead of a blog grid. It seems that notwithstanding the filter avf_blog_style, the settings in the theme options overwrite everything

Yes I removed the archive-projects.php but nothing happened. Give me one hour to upload the web site to a temporary domain so that you can access. I will give you the access details and specify the pages. Thanks