Cover template as default blog posts template

Hi @kikaweb,

This post on Stack Overflow seems promising: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/196319

I couldn’t find a plugin that does this. There should probably be one.

— Anders

Hello Anders,
thank you for the quick reply and for the link to the post on Stack Overflow. In facts, I made a search there but for some reason I totally missed that thread.
I’ll take it from there!
And by the way, thanks for the beautiful Chaplin theme ??

Hello Anders,

I’d love to hear how kikaweb took it from there. The mentioned post on Stack Overflow is way over my head.

Why wouldn’t it be possible to go to setting>reading and add an empty page as post page in addition to the static homepage set up as instructed to match your Chaplin Demo?

I’ve been trying that by setting up the empty page with a template tweak of Full Width Cover Template or Full Width Template but to no available result quite yet.

But then I’m not a developer. My guess is that the template used as a static page for the homepage must use the same framework as a template for Post Page. Hold it that would still ruin the links in the menu!

Perhaps you could let me know if you are using your content.php as page.php – or on which PHP file I could try my look with a code snippet I found to display all posts without messing up the menu links and consecutive links.

Thank you for Chaplin and all your themes. I love each one of them and keep talking clients into using them.

Mark

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by mseu.

Hi @munich,

Glad you like Chaplin! From your description, it sounds like you want to use a cover page template for the page displaying the list of posts (the blog archive), rather than setting a default template for the single posts themselves, which is what the topic author was looking to do.

Using a page template on the blog posts archive is unfortunately a taller order than setting a default page template for single posts. You’d have to rewrite index.php more or less entirely to match the display of the cover page template, so it would require pretty extensive development in a child theme.

Edit: Oh, and since the original question has been answered, I’m marking the topic as resolved as well. But feel free to create a new topic for your issue, @munich.

— Anders

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Anders Norén.