Replicating the look of the homepage through other pages

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  • October 1, 2014 at 9:29 pm #14126
    andreas
    Customer

      Hi guys,
      I really like the Epik theme, and also the fact that it runs on Genesis. I was specifically positively surprised that the homepage looks very fresh and modern. Most Genesis based themes look more or less the same unless you undertake tonnes of css modifications. What I was hoping though is that I can apply the same Epik look and feel of the wide grey, white or dark panel backgrounds on normal site pages. But I realise now that this look is restricted just to the homepage template, and that all pages other use the standard coding of genesis. I cannot see a way of reusing some of the css classes on other pages and achieve the same look. Any chance that this can be done? I am a web designer (but with limited coding experience). But even if this involves doing some smaller manual coding within the editor that would be ok.

      Here is an example of a page where I want to implement this look:
      http://www.byoguides.com/coralfinder/improvements/
      It is currently using an old version of the serenity theme. The entire content of this page is loaded in the editor (not individual widgets). Ideally I want to keep building pages this way and just apply via CSS styling that creates the wide panel look of the Epik homepage (http://my.studiopress.com/themes/epik/#demo-full), but obviously I want to do this throughout the site.

      Thanks heaps for your help.
      Andreas

      October 2, 2014 at 3:35 pm #14139
      TrishaM
      Customer

        Interestingly that site only uses that particular look on only that page – all of their other pages look very different and “stock” looking. Also, that page you linked to looks more like a category archive page – like they added a bunch of Posts that are categorized or tagged “improvements” and then they’re displaying a loop for that category.

        If that’s what you’re looking to do, you can probably achieve what you want through the use of carefully edited images for each Post and adding some Post styling for archive pages (for whatever category) – for example to align the excerpt above the image, control the size and position of the post image, and have no margin or padding between posts, add a border, etc.

        Also, you’d probably have to create an archive.php (or an archive-yourspecificcategory.php) and add a hook to change the thumbnail size to ‘full’ so that the image displays below the excerpt at full size, rather than the typical thumbnail size used in most archive pages. Epik doesn’t come with an archive.php so you’d need to start with the one provided by Genesis, copy it to your Epik Theme folder, and modify that one.

        Of course maybe someone else here will come up with a better way, but this is how I would do it. 🙂

        October 2, 2014 at 8:51 pm #14146
        andreas
        Customer

          Hi Trisha,
          Thanks for your feedback.
          It is not the only page. At the moment there is another page which I have also loaded using this look: http://www.byoguides.com/coralfinder/features/
          But I am planning a big upgrade now in the next month where a few more pages will get this look.

          Currently these pages are not a feed. Improvement is ONE page that has all the panels loaded withing this page. But you have a point that these types of pages could also be a feed. With each of the panels a separate post. But I just think having them in a single page makes building and maintaining a lot easier.

          What I am struggling is to see how I could use the actual div arrangement of normal pages and posts to achieve this paneled look where the grey or white bands go all the way to the edges. Epik has achieved this on this very specific homepage template which has a totally different structure than normal pages. On pages and pats the div with class “site-inner” is the last block that runs full with. From then on in to for example “content-sidebar-wrap” they are all restricted to the centre content area.
          Thanks all for your feedback. Wes, do you have any suggestions?
          Andreas

          October 3, 2014 at 2:58 pm #14155
          Eric
          Customer

            @andreas Check out my comment here – https://appfinite.com/topic/home-page-layout-to-be-applied-to-internal-pages/#post-9566 Basically just copy the home.php file and turn it into a page template. You’ll have to either create new widget areas (hard way) or you can choose a plugin that allows you to use the same widget area on multiple pages with different content.

            I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

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