Custom layouts won't apply to blog page

[bartwindrum]

Hi Jason, so I have a page called Blog and I’d like to apply my built layout to it but although it gets assigned on the page it doesn’t take effect; all I get is the default theme page. What’s up?

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[Jason Bobich]

Did you happen to set this page as your “posts page” under Settings > Reading > Frontpage displays. — If so, that’s why. Deselect it from there.

[bartwindrum]

Having reset that, what must I do to get Akita to populate the page with posts?

[bartwindrum]

I need to get the post list, I presume, into column 1 but don’t see an obvious content type in its menu.

[bartwindrum]

Eh; I got it in with shortcode but actually prefer the default 66/33% layout for the postlist to my sitewide 75/25%, so I’ll use the postlist template insteada custom.

[Jason Bobich]

You’re kind of losing me again, Bart. As usual, not quite sure if I’m following what you’re doing.

If your “Blog” page has a custom layout attached to it, then in your custom layout you’d just add the “Post List” element to the Main Content area. Then your page will adhere to the sitewide sidebar layout.

I think the confusion is that you’re still trying to use a custom layout as a sort of midifier for the “Sidebar Layout” by setting the pages to “Full Width” and then relying on the “Columns” element. — Doing this is going to limit you because you can’t do a whole lot within the “Columns” element.

[bartwindrum]

I’ll admit to some ongoing confusion around the sidebar / layout scene. And I don’t mean to obfuscate with my queries ! :). Anyway, for my needs, using [post-list] in a raw content field for column 1 works out alright, esp. since I can put a headline above that.

[bartwindrum]

Now that it’s the middle of the night and I’m no longer brain dead (I get the irony but I was at the end of a long session applying the first round of site-wide page massaging post-conversion to Akita): I think I know what I’m doing, at least in my little world. Once I decided that I liked the 75/25 content/sidebar layout split, it seemed a simple use/exploitation of this wonderful too, Akita, to lay that out via a widget area, custom, and floating widget assignment into column 2. Natural as daylight :).

Since you brought it up, could you please list some of the things that cannot be done within the columns element, so I know in case I end up wanting to do one of them? At the moment I’m near to 100% happy with what I’ve shaped.

[Jason Bobich]

When you’re editing a “Content” element, you can see how it can be populated (i.e. raw content, content from page, etc), where-as if you’re adding to the actual layout itself, you can choose from any of the custom layout elements to insert.

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