ptrulli

@bsfherman thanks! Are you using a paid version of Astra as some of the options I don’t have available? Such as making the “read more” into a button.

@bsfherman ,

Yes, I understand the behaviour and how it works. However, when I set the homepage as display recent posts, it changes the UI to one I don’t want… the question is how can I override that behaviour to dispaly the UI I want?

Thanks everyone. I currently have it setup as homepage static, posts page as the /blog.

I want only to display the posts on my homepage, which I understand how to achieve. The issue if I set it up with the homepage to display the latest posts, it displays the /blog UI layout which I dont want to happen.

My issue and question is, how can I have my current homepage UI design persist over the blog when changing the homepage to display?

Homepage UI – Current and want to retain https://imgur.com/a/9ilVGdQ

If I set up the Homepage “to display latest posts” https://imgur.com/a/mzGFzir the UI I dont want persists.

Got this sorted out. I’ll post the resolution which was provided in generatepress support in case other comes across this.

“Blog page is an index page, editing the page > blog does not edit the actual blog index page.

Try this:

1. Go to appearance > elements, create a block element, and set the element type to Loop template.
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/block-element-loop-template/

2. Copy all content from your current blog page, and paste it into the element.
Here’s a video instruction

3. Select the query loop block, and remove all parameters except posts per page and post type, toggle the Inherit Query From Template option.
https://docs.generateblocks.com/article/query-loop-overview/#query-parameters

4. Set the element location to?blog?and publish the element.”

Hi again, my apologies the blog page was not assigned as the “posts page” in the homepage settings. I have assigned it now. You should see a different layout, which was included in my initial post.

When I “view” the blog page, it shows me the view I don’t want, which is 1 column and posts on top of each other. However, when I hit edit, it shows me the same as you saw earlier: the three-column row.

Strangely, the 3-column is from the generateblocks open pattern library; I would think it should work.

Issues

Hi there, excuse my ignorance, but the theme I am using is active, i.e. generatepass/blocks ?

Heres the page in question https://paolotrulli.com/blog/ please take a look, I’m really hoping to address this.

In addition to the above, when the page is set as the “blog” the custom theme I made disappears, but when I activate another page as the blog page, my customization appears again!

It has something to do with assigning the “blog page” posts page -> triggers old theme. When not applied -> new blog theme is shown.

• This reply was modified 11 months, 1 week ago by ptrulli.

Hey all I figured it out. Created a new page, and inserted a blog post theme in the query, which was an option, I ticked off the category Video and removed all others. Now this page only displays my videos.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by ptrulli.

Yes, but if I have multiple videos over time I don’t want it to be scattered across pages. I rather a version of a blog page but for videos.

Great thanks! I appreciate your response. I’ll hardcode for now, and know if it is ever updated, I can reference this post then.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by ptrulli. Reason: Resolved

Couldn’t I theoretically just hardcode this into the main theme without the child?

Update – The site map still cannot be fetched. At this point, I’m on the verge of just giving up and using Google Site Kit.

Please follow the above link from Benjamin’s post.

closing this as it’s opened there.

It’s been two days and so far nope, could not fetch.

FYI – This is what I see