[Resolved] Blog Layout depending on category

[Vsevolod Serbin]

Hello!
At first I would like to thank you for such excellent job. Generatepress is one of the best WP Themes that I had worked with.

I have a question. I use masonry blog layout, but in some categories I would like to use standart layout, with full-width blocks.

Is it possible to do without creating special templates as category-“slug”.php?

[Tom]

Hmm let me think about the best way to do this – will get back to you on this one in the morning.

Thanks!

[Tom]

Alright, it’s not overly easy, but it’s do-able.

First we need to add some custom PHP – this plugin is good for adding it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

function generate_dequeue_scripts() {

	// If the category ID is 79, dequeue masonry
	if ( is_category( '79' ) ) :
		wp_dequeue_script( 'blog-scripts' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'jquery-masonry' );
		wp_dequeue_script( 'blog-imagesloaded' );
		wp_dequeue_style( 'blog-styles' );
	endif;
	
}
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'generate_dequeue_scripts', 100 );
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'generate_dequeue_scripts', 100 );

You’ll need to replace “79” with the ID of your category.

To do multiple categories, you can do this: if ( is_category( '79' ) || is_category( '80' ) || is_category( '81' ) ) :

Now you’ll need to add a little bit of custom CSS:

.category-79 .page-header, 
.category-79 .inside-article {
    margin-right: 0;
}

Again, you’ll have to change the ID.

Hope this helps 🙂

[Vsevolod Serbin]

That works!
Tom, thanks a lot!
Is it posible to use the same code for custom post types? I’m totally incompetent in PHP but I see the conditional tags.
I changed “is_category” to “is_tax” but that broke my site for a while 🙂

I really appreciate your help and if this question is too much, I’ll understand.

[Tom]

You can target custom post types like this:

$post_type = get_post_type();

if ( 'books' == $post_type ) :
      // Stuff in here will only happen to the "books" custom post type
endif;

[Vsevolod Serbin]

Tom, thank you for help.

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

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