kylechadha

Haha not a bad idea compared to the experience I’ve had with this “premium” theme!

Got it, thanks WPyogi. Unfortunately the author of this particularly theme has not replied to a single support request from myself or the ~15 other people active on his forums.

Looks like it’s time to get a better theme.

Thanks for the guidance.

I wish I understood what you did with the code but it is a bit beyond me haha.

Yes, works 100%! Thanks Hakkim!

All good: https://www.kylechadha.com/blog/

Actually was looking through the theme forums… and found a simple (albiet slightly less elegant) workaround.

Just adding all posts to a new category, ‘Blog’, and then having the blog link on the home page link to https://kylechadha.com/category/blog/

The only annoying part is all posts will show the category ‘Blog’!

Actually here’s the link to the theme directly: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/minimatica

Hrm… still looks the same.

There’s also content.php and content-gallery.php — might they have something to do with it?

Content.php:

<?php
/**
 * Displays the post content. Used as fallback for post formats
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Minimatica
 * @since Minimatica 1.0
 */
 ?>

<div id="content">
	<div class="entry-header">
		<a class="colorbox" href="<?php $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'full' ); echo $thumbnail[0] ?>">
			<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'single-thumb' ); ?>
		</a>
		<aside class="entry-meta">
			<ul>
				<li><?php _e( 'Written by', 'minimatica' ); ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></li>
				<li><?php _e( 'on', 'minimatica' ); ?> <time datetime="<?php the_time( 'Y-m-d' ); ?>"><?php the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ); ?></time></li>
				<li><?php _e( 'Filed under', 'minimatica' ); ?> <?php the_category( ', ' ); ?></li>
				<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'minimatica' ), '<li>', '</li>' ); ?>
			</ul>
			<?php the_tags( '<div class="entry-tags">', ' ', '</div>' ); ?>
		</aside><!-- .entry-meta -->
		<div class="clear"></div>
	</div><!-- .entry-header -->
	<section class="entry-content">
		<?php the_content(); ?>
		<div class="clear"></div>
		<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<p class="pagination">' . __( 'Pages' ) . ': ' ) ); ?>
	</section><!-- .entry-content -->
	<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div><!-- #content -->

content-gallery.php

<?php
/**
 * Displays the content of posts with gallery format
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Minimatica
 * @since Minimatica 1.0
 */
 ?>

<div id="content">
	<section class="entry-content">
		<?php minimatica_post_gallery(); ?>
		<?php the_content(); ?>
		<div class="clear"></div>
		<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<p class="pagination">' . __( 'Pages' ) . ': ' ) ); ?>
	</section><!-- .entry-content -->
	<div class="entry-header">
		<aside class="entry-meta">
			<ul>
				<li><?php _e( 'Posted by', 'minimatica' ); ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></li>
				<li><?php _e( 'on', 'minimatica' ); ?> <time datetime="<?php the_time( 'Y-m-d' ); ?>"><?php the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ); ?></time></li>
				<li><?php _e( 'Filed under', 'minimatica' ); ?> <?php the_category( ', ' ); ?></li>
			</ul>
			<?php the_tags( '<div class="entry-tags">', ' ', '</div>' ); ?>
		</aside><!-- .entry-meta -->
		<div class="clear"></div>
	</div><!-- .entry-header -->
	<?php comments_template(); ?>
	<div class="clear"></div>
</div><!-- #content -->

<?php
/**
 * The Main Loop
 *
 * Used as fallback if no specific loop file found
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Minimatica
 * @since Minimatica 1.0
 */
 ?>

 <?php if( have_posts() ) : ?>
	<div id="content" role="main">
		<?php while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
			<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
				<header class="entry-header">
					<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?>
						<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark">
							<?php the_post_thumbnail( 'homepage-thumb' ); ?>
						</a>
					<?php endif; ?>
					<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
					<aside class="entry-meta<?php if( has_post_thumbnail() ) : ?> folded<?php endif; ?>">
						<?php _e( 'By', 'minimatica' ); ?> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>
						<?php _e( 'on', 'minimatica' ); ?>
						<time datetime="<?php the_time( 'Y-m-d' ); ?>"><?php the_time( get_option( 'date_format' ) ); ?></time>
					</aside><!-- .entry-meta -->
				</header><!-- .entry-header -->
				<section class="entry-summary">
					<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
				</section><!-- .entry-summary -->
				<footer class="entry-footer">
					<a class="more-link" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title_attribute(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo __( 'Continue reading', 'minimatica' ) . ' &rarr;'; ?></a>
				</footer><!-- entry-footer -->
			</article><!-- .post -->
		<?php endwhile; ?>
		<?php if ( $wp_query->max_num_pages > 1 ) : ?>
			<div id="posts-nav" class="navigation">
				<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( '&larr; ' . __( 'Older Posts', 'minimatica' ) ); ?></div>
				<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Newer Posts', 'minimatica' ) . ' &rarr;' ); ?></div>
				<div class="clear"></div>
			</div><!-- #nav-above -->
		<?php endif; ?>
	</div><!-- #content -->
<?php else : ?>
	<div id="content">
		<div id="post-0" <?php post_class(); ?>>
			<div class="entry-content">
				<p><?php _e( 'The content you were looking for could not be found.', 'minimatica' ); ?></p>
				<?php get_search_form(); ?>
			</div><!-- .entry-content -->
		</div><!-- .post -->
	</div><!-- #content -->
<?php endif; ?>

Thanks so much for helping Hakkim, I appreciate it!

Getting very close! Only the formatting is off now.

Can see the difference here:
https://www.kylechadha.com/blog/
https://www.kylechadha.com/2013/

Apologies, this is the code I have:

<?php
/*
 * Template Name: Blog Page
 * Description: Custom Blog Page by muah, Kyle Chadha.
 */

get_header(); ?>
<?php if( ( 'gallery' == minimatica_get_option( 'category_view' ) ) && ( get_query_var( 'cat' ) != minimatica_get_option( 'blog_category' ) ) ) : ?>
	<div id="slider">
		<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'slider' ); ?>
	</div><!-- #slider -->
<?php else : ?>
 	<div class="title-container">
		<h1 class="page-title"><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
	</div><!-- .title-container -->
	<div id="container">
		<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' ); ?>
		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
		<div class="clear"></div>
	</div><!-- #container -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

The black bar came back, making the blog page look more normal — but it still doesn’t load the posts. https://www.kylechadha.com/blog/

To clarify, I should copy all the code from category.php and overwrite everything in blog.php besides the comment at the top?

This is the code I have in blog.php now:

get_header(); ?>
<?php if( ( 'gallery' == minimatica_get_option( 'category_view' ) ) && ( get_query_var( 'cat' ) != minimatica_get_option( 'blog_category' ) ) ) : ?>
	<div id="slider">
		<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'slider' ); ?>
	</div><!-- #slider -->
<?php else : ?>
 	<div class="title-container">
		<h1 class="page-title"><?php single_cat_title(); ?></h1>
	</div><!-- .title-container -->
	<div id="container">
		<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'category' ); ?>
		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
		<div class="clear"></div>
	</div><!-- #container -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hrmm… I don’t really have any experience doing this, but I took a stab at it based on the link you provided. I made a copy of ‘home.php’ and renamed it ‘blog.php’, and edited out the if/else condition where it seemed to be deciding between the two views. I then added the “Template Name” text in a comment. I created a page named ‘Blog’ and set the custom template as ‘Blog Page’ … but, alas, it doesn’t seem to be working:

This is the code in ‘blog.php’:

<?php
/*
 * Template Name: Blog Page
 * Description: Custom Blog Page by muah, Kyle Chadha.
 */

get_header(); ?>
	<div id="container">
		<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' ); ?>
		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
		<div class="clear"></div>
	</div><!-- #container -->
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Originally, home.php had:

<?php
/**
 * Template to display the default posts page
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Minimatica
 * @since Minimatica 1.0
 */

get_header(); ?>
<?php if( 'gallery' == minimatica_get_option( 'homepage_view' ) ) : ?>
	<div id="slider">
		<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'slider' ); ?>
	</div><!-- #slider -->
<?php else : ?>
	<div id="container">
		<?php get_template_part( 'loop', 'index' ); ?>
		<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
		<div class="clear"></div>
	</div><!-- #container -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.