Use custom blog layout for archive (category) pages

Hey mistolt1997,
Thank you for your question, unfortunately, you can not create a custom layout to use instead of to defined options:
multi-big
single-small
single-big
blog-grid
bloglist-simple
bloglist-compact
bloglist-excerpt

for example this sets the ‘blog-grid’ layout

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;
}

The ‘custom’ option redirects to the blog page to the one you set in the theme options, but this is not used for category pages.
I imagine that you could create a specific “category” page using the blog element set to show only one category, and then redirect to it, but it might be a lot of work if you have a lot of categories.

There might be another solution for you depending on what you want to be customized, for example perhaps the ‘blog-grid’ layout will work for you but you also want a specific special heading and text block above the category grid, you could add this as a shortcode in the category description, this example was for a product category, but the same can be used for a post category if you add this code to allow shortcodes in the post category description:
add_filter( 'term_description', 'do_shortcode' );

I hope this helps explain and gives you some ideas to achieve what you want.

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback, you can set the single-small for your category pages with this function

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

and change it to show excerpts with this function

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

the results

Best regards,
Mike

Hi,
Glad we were able to help, if you have any further questions please create a new thread and we will gladly try to help you. Thank you for using Enfold.

Best regards,
Mike