[Resolved] Pages Archive in two columns

[Marc]

Hi,

I use GP for our department in a college. All our courses were created as pages, and I wanted to allow some level of categorization (by semester (session in French), by competency (Axe de formation in French)), so I installed the “Add Category to Pages” plugin in order to achieve this, rather than converting all pages to posts.

Now, when we click on “Session 1, Session 2, … Session 6”, we get all the courses per semester. Same thing works great with four competencies “Axe de formation « Gestion », Axe de formation « Technologie », etc.)

However, the archive themselves, or list of pages, displayed when we click one of the links, are displayed in ONE column only, rather than two, as I set in Customizer> Layout> Blog> Archive> 2 columns. I can only guess that this setting works only for posts, not for pages, since pages aren’t supposed to have categories? Is there a bit of code I could insert somewhere, in order to have the above archive lists display in two columns, and also to make the first post (page in this case) featured?

Thanks in advance.

[Tom]

Hi there,

Give this a shot:

add_filter( 'generate_blog_columns', function( $columns ) {
    if ( is_archive() && 'page' === get_post_type() ) {
        return true;
    }

    return $columns;
} );

Let me know 🙂

[Harm]

I also have the “Add Category to Pages” plugin. In Customizer I designated columns in Layout>Blog>Archives but the post_types “page” at first did’t show up in columns.

With Tom’s function it works like a charm, but…

within the Customizer I always get a blank area. Navigation and headers and such are fine but no content, no columns. On the front-end it all works fine.
What’s wrong with the Customizer display?

[Tom]

Are there any javascript errors in the Console? You can check by right-clicking the page and choosing “Inspect”.

Let me know 🙂

[Harm]

Hi Tom,
Thanks for replying.
GP is great!
Yes, I do get js-errors in Customizer but not able to pin-point where it comes from.
Might be not-GP related…

Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: >h2 class=”widget-title”<>/h2<
at Function.ea.error (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-wp:2)
at ea.tokenize (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-wp:2)
at ea.select (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-wp:2)
at Function.ea (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-wp:2)
at Function.a.find (jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.4.1:2)
at n.fn.init.find (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-wp:2)
at n.fn.init.a.fn.find (jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.4.1:2)
at a.fn.init.n.fn.init (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-wp:2)
at new a.fn.init (jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.4.1:2)
at n (jquery.js?ver=1.12.4-wp:2)

Will investigate further tomorrow evening.

[Tom]

Hmm, strange one. Have you deactivated your other plugins one by one to check if one of them is causing it?

[Marc]

It worked! 🙂

[Tom]

Awesome 🙂

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