Make all post lists grid style

  • Resolved jugoretz

    (@jugoretz)


    9 years ago

    I can see in the customizr options how easy it is to have post lists such as author, category or tag archives appear in grid view. Those are great.

    But I also want ALL post lists to be in grid view. There doesn’t seem to be any hook or any other way to make this happen.

    (the use-case here is that I am using coauthors plus to add coauthors bylines for guest authors who don’t really have accounts. Because these guest authors aren’t actual WordPress users, their author pages aren’t really counted as author archive pages. So the page my-site.com/author/guest-authors-name doesn’t show up as a grid view, even though I have that selected for all post lists).

    Is there any way to force ALL post lists to be in grid view, rather than the alternate layout?

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  • Did you resolve this?

    Not sure why basic feature doesn’t work for you?

    Thread Starter jugoretz

    (@jugoretz)

    I did resolve it, or at least came up with an effective workaround. It’s quite an idiosyncratic issue, so I’m not sure the explanation will be of any value to anyone else, but I’ll put it here and then mark this resolved.

    The problem came from a combination of three different factors–

    1. Using customizr
    2. Using coauthors-plus to make guest authors who did not have WordPress accounts
    3. Having those guest authors marked as authors of pages, but no posts.

    I have no real idea WHY this combination of factors would cause the problem, but it did.

    Possible explanation…the coauthors-plus plugin makes the guest authors’ archive pages with the format sitename/author/guest-author-nicename . But the “author” taxonomy is a name of one that is already used by WordPress, and co-authors-plus is using it as a new custom taxonomy. So maybe that confuses things.

    Anyway, once I discovered the three elements of the problem (the list above), it was easy enough to eliminate one of them, and that made the problem go away.

    When I created a post (just a “ghost post,” not one that actually mattered or that I would display anywhere), and attached all the guest authors as authors of that post (a post, not a page), the problem went away entirely. All the guest authors’ archive pages (which included pages they had authored) showed up properly in the grid view.

    For some reason, something related to the specific theme and the specific plugin, pages don’t really “count,” unless the guest author also has at least one post.

    Hope that’s clear and maybe useful to someone someday!

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