[Support request] Edit archives.php to use Essential Grid

[Sami]

I’m using the plugin eddential grid to show my posts in a grid and it works nice on the index where I used a shortcode and placed it on a page. However I want to use the grid format for all posts for example when you open the category or search page. Essential grid advises to edit the archive-page, however I’m not sure if that’s a good idea in terms of new theme updates. These are their instructions:

https://www.themepunch.com/faq/auto-populate-grid-for-archive-pages/
https://www.themepunch.com/faq/auto-populate-grid-for-blog-pages-with-the-loop-advanced/

How would you recommend to enable the theme to show those grids instead of normal posts?

[David]

Hi there,

you would need to begin by installing a child theme:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-child-theme/

Then copying over each of the template files and making those edits. Its quite a lot of work. How does essential grid differ from the GP blog? Might be easier to style blog to look similar.

[Author]

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