[Resolved] Add page title to blog page

[Kim Lindsey]

We are loving Generate Press so far & have all the Add-Ons installed & activated.

Our site (beta URL is http://neostc.org/cmswp/) has a static Home page, and we are using the blog for the group’s newsletter.

On the blog page, we want to add a newsletter title BELOW the page header and (always) ABOVE the first post.

I don’t see a way to do this with GP Hooks.

Would this require a child theme? – If so, I’d appreciate some advice as it’s the first time I’ll be creating/using a child theme. In the generic WP support forums, I found this thread:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-page-title-to-blog-page-twenty-ten-theme
… but since it’s for a different theme, I didn’t want to try that method without asking.

Thanks for the great support we’ve had already with Generate Press! Great theme – makes everything so easy & flexible!

[Tom]

You could try doing something like this in the “Above Content” hook:

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>
      <header class="entry-header">
            <h1 itemprop="headline" class="entry-title">Blog</h1>
      </header>
<?php endif; ?>

is_home is only true while on the blog.

Then, you’ll have to check the “Execute PHP” checkbox.

Let me know if that does it 🙂

[Kim Lindsey]

Thanks Tom! I see from the code that it should only affect the Blog page, which is exactly what we need.
I meet with my newsletter editors tomorrow night – how cool if this can be in place by then to show them!
I’ll try it this evening & let you know how it goes.
Thanks again!

[Kim Lindsey]

Well, the initial solution did not work. Instead of a page title at the top, it puts the text (“Blog” in your sample code) above the title of each individual blog Post.

So then I tried putting your code snippet into the “After Header” hook.

That actually did work!! – except that the text is aligned in the far left margin.

So now I just need to find a way to center it on the page – that would be the perfect position.

If this were a non-WP site, I could probably figure out how to do it, and I’m guessing it’s something to do with the .aligncenter class (is that the correct jargon?), but I don’t know where to insert it in your sample code for the hook.

** I know you’re probably busy with the WP 4.0 update. We hope to go live on 9/10, so if you can help in the next few days, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help!

[Tom]

Ah – my mistake.

Okay, try this:

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>
      <div class="grid-container grid-parent">
           <header class="entry-header">
                  <h1 itemprop="headline" class="entry-title">Blog</h1>
            </header>
      </div>
<?php endif; ?>

[Kim Lindsey]

That is perfect, except I’d really like it center-aligned.

How do I do that?

(P.S. – I even added an H2 sub-title and it worked great!)

[Kim Lindsey]

Never mind – I think I got it! I added

align=”center”

right after

div class=”grid-container grid-parent”

and now both my title & sub-title are center-aligned.

This is so sweet! Kudos to you Tom for a great theme!

[Tom]

Good job!

Using align=”center” is kind of old when it comes to coding, so I suggest doing this to the opening div:

<div class="grid-container grid-parent" style="text-align:center;">

[katia]

Hi Tom,
i used your suggestion in order to show my blog title in the blog homepage, putting it “inside_container”, but this made title shown before Yoast breadcrumbs, while in every other pages of the site page title appears after breadcrumbs 🙁
Can you tell me how to fix this difference?
Thank you in advance!

[David]

Hi there,

This is a very old topic so can you raise a new topic and provide a link to the site.

[Author]

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