Managing Blog Template

  • Resolved composablewords

    (@composablewords)


    8 months ago

    Hello, I am using the Extendable theme as part of the Ionos hosting setup in Germany.

    I like the AI block approach and would like to build more and different pages.

    I am struggling with the templates though. I can only choose one template in German “Seiten”. I would expect that I can use the standard templates but for some reasons I can only select “Seiten” as standard template and if I create my own template and chose it as “custom” the website does not render it.

    I assume there is something wrong in the theme setup. Any hints which files or JSON I can check?

    Any hints where I should assign the templates? Through the customizer or the normal page editing?

    I would like to create one more page for blog posts which was not part of the package. Just a list of all my blog posts but for some reason I cannot assign the blog template to any new page. Thank you

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

  • Thanks for reaching out.

    If I understand your request correctly, you are trying to achieve two things.

    A. Assigning a custom template to a page
    B. Creating a blog page

    If you are referring to something else, please let me know (and ideally share a screenshot or video). But I’ll share some information below on the two things I think you are trying to accomplish.

    Assigning a custom template to a page

    You can assign a template to a page through the WordPress page editor:

    1. Edit the page.
    2. Open the Page Settings sidebar.
    3. Look for Summary > Template and click on Page. It will open a menu, then click on Swap Template. A modal will open, and from this modal, you can choose a different template for your page.

    Here is a gif showing this.

    Creating a blog page

    To create a blog page, you don’t need to create a template as the theme already has one (unless you are modifying the blog page layout):

    1. Create a blank page and give it a title, such as Blog.
    2. From the WP admin sidebar, go to Settings > Reading.
    3. In the Reading Settings, you will find an option named Posts page. Here, select the page you just created for the blog.

    Here is a screenshot.

    Let me know if you need further assistance!

    Thread Starter composablewords

    (@composablewords)

    Thank you so much! The second option worked smoothly.

    I still cannot assign a standard template from the “extandable” theme.

    Here is a video of a German version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k5evKpKyhQPPH0M4_XHUmC5b_yJvn3RA/view?usp=sharing

    At the end I move back to the template settings and switch to “standard” templates but can only select “Seiten” – No other template out of the theme can be selected. I gues I am missunderstanding something. Thank you for the hint, it works now for me and I can move forward with the project. The template question will probably come up in 2 weeks again.

    Thanks for sharing the video. It’s helpful to understand the issue.

    The issue you have is that the template (custom-home) contains a Query block that is inheriting the query from the page (meaning the Query block is requesting data for the current page). I see you want the data for blog posts. To achieve this, you need to toggle off the option “Inherit query from template” in the custom template (in your case, the template name is home-custom).

    For that:

    1. Edit the home-custom template.
    2. Select the Query Loop block from the List View.
    3. Open the Block settings page and look for “Inherit query from template” and toggle it off.

    Here is a video on how to toggle it off: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k2sBjwHBMj3UZWLjNo_8m_eIOPS8YA9s/view?usp=drive_link

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The topic ‘Managing Blog Template’ is closed to new replies.

Tags