How to customize category/archive page layouts?

Hi Roger,

1. Have you considered using the GP PageHeaders? These can be assigned to the Category / Archives on global locations and the content can be set to full width.

https://docs.generatepress.com/collection/page-header/

2. You can use the GP Hooks > After Header Hook and use a Conditional:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/using-hooks-conditional-tags/

bottom of the page links to the WP Codex, you'll be interested in the the is_category or is_archive conditional.

Hey David,

Thanks for replying.

1. You're right, I totally forgot about the GP PageHeaders. That takes care of that.

2. This one is proving to be a bit more challenging. I did try the After Header Hook before but when I used the following code, it places the text between the navigation menu and category header:

<?php if ( is_category( $category ) ) : ?>
This Content will ONLY show on the static front page
<?php endif; ?>

I'm not sure how to get it between the category header and post area (as per the image). Thoughts?

Let's try writing a function instead:

add_action( 'generate_before_main_content', 'tu_add_content_above_posts', 0 );
function tu_add_content_above_posts() {
    if ( is_category( 'category-name' ) ) : ?>
        Your content
    <?php endif;
}

Let me know if that helps or not :)

Hey Tom,

Thanks for chiming in with the function.

It helped and it looks like I’m just a step away from achieving the desired layout.

Adding the function resulted in the text being displayed just fine when the category/archive pages were not set to “Display posts in columns” in the Customizer. Here is the result: https://imgur.com/59We6ba

However, if I set “Display posts in columns” to 3 (which I'd like to do), the text only shows up to the left. You can see that here: https://imgur.com/lALnqhC

How can this be resolved?

I just edited the code above, can you try it instead?

Perfect Tom! It worked.

Thank you very much for the excellent support as usual.

Cheers.

You're welcome :)

Hi! Is it possible to hook here? >
between archive header and the loop content?

There is no existing hook there but we can use a workaround solution.

Can you open a new topic and I'll provide it?

Thanks :)

Leo, as suggested → Hook after archive header / Wrapper for archive posts
:)

Thanks :)