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Hello,
I’m currently designing a website and I’m running into an issue where I have a fairly custom branding scheme and layout that I’ve created in Beaver Builder. However, when posting blogs, the page to view the blog content looks absolutely nothing like the rest of my site, and I can’t edit it with beaver builder. Are there more options for customizing the blog content pages without having to do a ton of CSS?
I can send some screenshots as well.
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Hi there,
Have you tried these options here?
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/blog-content-layout/Let me know 🙂
Yes, I’ve worked around in there.
Let me attach some screenshots to show more specifically what my problem is.
Here is the home page, contact page, and then blog page.
As you can see, I use a Parallax background on the top of each page, with a transparent menu scheme that turns into a sticky menu as you scroll. I did that using the elements feature in GP Premium. Because of the same rough layout on every single page (which was created through Beaver Builder), I was hoping to have the blogs look somewhat similar. However, the final image in that album is the closest I can get the blogs to look.
The work-around is just to create a new page every time we have a blog post, but that ends up being a lot of pages as opposed to posts, and some of the easy blog stuff is removed when creating the page from scratch. However, if that’s what I have to do, we can do that.
I’m not quite sure what you mean from the screenshot.
You can apply element to the blog archive page as well if that helps.
If not any chance you can disable the maintenance mode and explain a little more what the issue is?
Hmmm, I’m a little bit hesitant to make it visible at the moment because my team already made the emails (support@myallegianceins.com) visible and the business cards are in use that direct to the site. I will try to better explain, but if that doesn’t work at all, I can open up the website for a bit.
Essentially, using Beaver Builder, I’ve created a design for all the regular pages of the site (home pages, contact pages, services, etc). It all follows the same basic design for what the top of the page looks like, where the content is located, etc. That’s the first two screenshots, showing what the top of basic pages of the website look like. It’s a parallax image, with some text over it, and the menu, and then underneath the image is where the content starts.
When I post a blog, unfortunately the basic blog viewing layout is nothing like how I design my pages, and even the menu is spaced strangely. If I could, I would edit the blog post with Beaver Builder to roughly lay it out how I’d like it, but I cannot even do that. Effectively, with how I’ve built the rest of the site, publishing posts through the basic wordpress “Post” is unusable (the layout for viewing a blog post is the final screenshot I have attached).
Is there any way to make the layout for a blog post more similar to the other pages I’ve designed, perhaps by using elements?
So are you saying that BB cannot be used to edit single posts?
I don’t use page builders myself but are you sure about that? I’d be very surprised…
To answer your question though, yes you can definitely use the header element to create that.
See here for more details:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/header-element-overview/
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/page-hero-examples/Let me know if this helps 🙂
Right, I was surprised as well. I have used Beaver Builder on Hestia and Asta before, and was able to edit single posts. That was why I assumed that it was a GP Premium issue where I was not able to edit single posts.
However, it does look like I hadn’t explored the header element all the way through; that seems like it should do what I need it to just fine. I will let you know if I run into any issues with that.
Hi Leo,
Turns out I am having some issues with the Elements. I’ve followed the documentation, and I watched the video on creating hero images, but I can’t get it to apply to the blog. Still running into all sorts of issues. If we can continue via email, I can give you the wordpress login credentials so you can take a look at what’s going on.
Thanks,
Daniel
Make sure you choose Blog under Display Rule to display it on the blog page.
If you have more specific questions, can you open a new topic(s) for them?
It will help us to track the issue.
We generally don’t require WordPress login. The live link to your site should be fine 🙂
As I said, since we have traffic actively going there now from direct links in email addresses and business cards, we can’t really make the site live yet. We’re hoping to launch soon, but I don’t want clients going to an unfinished site yet.
Here’s showing how the element is set up, based on the video tutorial I watched in the documentation. I have underneath it as well a sample blog post that has a featured image, a title and just a single line of text.
Based on the video, it shouldn’t be looking like that. I’m not sure if it has to do with the element for the transparent menu I have set up?
It’s really hard for us to debug problems like this without seeing the site as it’s working for everyone else.
Can you clone the site on a test server for us to view?
Hey Leo,
We’re soft launching the website tomorrow. I’ll remove the education / blog from the menu so you can only really access them from direct links (we’re currently not indexed or optimized for SEO). The eventual link to check is going to be https://myallegianceins.com/education as soon as we have it up. Like I said, I believe that’s going to be tomorrow.
I’ll respond as soon as we have it up.
Sounds good let me know 🙂
Leo,
The site is live. The link you’ll be going to is https://myallegianceins.com/education, and you can click on a post from there. Let me know what else you need from me.
Thanks,
Daniel
What is the final result supported to look like?
Similar to the front page?
It currently looks like there isn’t an image added with that page hero.
Can you make sure there is one added?
And please disable the caching plugin for now while we are debugging.
Thanks.
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