Category page layout

Hi @cihomewood

News & Blog Designer Pack is created with shortcode and widgets. You can add them in your desired page to get the output.

At this stage it does not handle theme category or archive page layout automatically because they are designed according to your theme layout.

But we can modify it via child theme and we can add plugin layout in your theme category or archive page.

Can you please let me know which theme and shortcode (layout) are you using?

Hi @cihomewood

That’s great that you are using child theme so it will be easy for you. Please take a look at the below code.

<?php
$category = get_queried_object();
$category_id = $category->term_id;

echo do_shortcode('[bdp_post design="design-1" grid="3" category=".'$category_id'."]');

You can replace this code with while loop under archive/category.php. You can use any shortcode and it’s parameter in this file only dynamic variable category=”.’$category_id’.” will be there.

Note : To change the file you should have some knowledge of coding. Any mistake in this file can cause the error.

Hello @cihomewood

Please navigate to wp-content/themes/Astra file structure and open archive.php file: http://prntscr.com/19poebz

Now you need to place the code like this:

<main id="main" class="site-main">
    <div class="ast-row">
        <div style="margin: 0;padding: 5.34em 6.67em; background:#fff;">
            <?php
            $category = get_queried_object();
            $category_id = $category->term_id;
            echo do_shortcode('[bdp_post design="design-1" grid="2" category="'.$category_id.'"]');
            ?>
        </div>                
    </div>                
</main>

Please place this code after <?php astra_archive_header(); ?> and before <?php astra_primary_content_bottom(); ?> and here is screenshot of it http://prntscr.com/19powti

I hope this will work for you. You can change the shortcode as per your need.

Note : You can create the child theme, copy the archive.php file in that and change the code as suggested. So you can easily update your parent main theme without any issue.