Tweaking Genesis Template

Hi Merv,

As far as I can see the single template is applied a little late (inside the loop) to actually be able to add any genesis custom tweaking. Whilst much of that can be done in functions.php with
if (singular('rental') || if singular(' ... )

Some of my site design requires a bit more drastic restructuring, which I believe can be only achieved in the genesis/single-listing.php

I have found a way to overide this (genesis template location), firstly this can be put in wp-config
define ('EPL_PATH_TEMPLATES_POST_TYPES_GENESIS','mycustompath/');

But that is a bit hardcoded.

A more generic solution is the use the filter
add_filter( 'template_include', 'epl_load_core_templates' );

I’m sharing this for two reasons, 1) did I miss something obvious in template overriding and
2) if my solution is actually valid (it works) it might help others searching for code snippets

And the code I used was

// force local  templates
add_filter( 'template_include', 'wsl_load_core_templates' );
function wsl_load_core_templates($template) {

	if ( epl_is_genesis_framework_theme() ) {	
		$template_path = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/genesis/';
	} else {
	    return $template;
	}
	$post_tpl	=	'';
	$epl_posts 	= array( 'property' , 'land' , 'rental' , 'rural' , 'commercial' , 'business' , 'commercial_land' );
	
	if ( is_single() && in_array( get_post_type(), $epl_posts ) ) {
	
		$common_tpl		= 'single-listing.php';
		$post_tpl 		= 'single-'.get_post_type().'.php';
		$find[] 		= $post_tpl;
		$find[] 		= epl_template_path() . $post_tpl;
		$find[] 		=  $common_tpl;
		$find[] 		= $common_tpl;
		$find[] 		= epl_template_path() . $common_tpl;
		
	} elseif ( is_post_type_archive( $epl_posts ) ) {
		$common_tpl		= 'archive-listing.php';
		$post_tpl 		= 'archive-'.get_post_type().'.php';
		$find[] 		=  $post_tpl;
		$find[] 		= epl_template_path() . $post_tpl;
		$find[] 		=  $common_tpl;
		$find[] 		= epl_template_path() . $common_tpl;
		
	} elseif ( is_tax ( 'location' ) ) {

		$term   		= get_queried_object();
		$common_tpl		= 'archive-listing.php';
		$post_tpl 		= 'taxonomy-' . $term->taxonomy . '.php';
		$find[] 		= 'taxonomy-' . $term->taxonomy . '-' . $term->slug . '.php';
		$find[] 		= epl_template_path() . 'taxonomy-' . $term->taxonomy . '-' . $term->slug . '.php';
		$find[] 		= 'taxonomy-' . $term->taxonomy . '.php';
		$find[] 		= epl_template_path() . 'taxonomy-' . $term->taxonomy . '.php';
		$find[] 		= $common_tpl;
		$find[] 		= $post_tpl;
		$find[] 		= epl_template_path() . $common_tpl;

	}
	
	if ( $post_tpl ) {
		$template       = locate_template( array_unique( $find ) );
		if(!$template) {
			$template	=	$template_path . $common_tpl;
		}
	}
	return $template;

}

(and of course copying teh genesis templates to a directory called genesis in the stylesheet directory)

• This topic was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Alan.