I’m building a site with a custom post type, and have hooked in the template file for the single post as follows:

function get_custom_post_type_template($single_template) {
	global $post;
	if ($post->post_type == 'event') {
		$single_template = dirname(__FILE__).'/single-event.php';
	}
	return $single_template;
}
add_filter('single_template','get_custom_post_type_template');

This is because I do not wish to modify the x theme directory at all, including adding files.

The issue I’m having is that there I have no control over the page title for single-event.php as it is already set by the theme previously via get_header(). There is a title there but it’s whatever’s defined in the theme options for the title of the blog page, rather than the current post title (like the_title()), which is what I need.

For clarification: this is what I need to change:

<header class="x-header-landmark">
      <div class="x-container-fluid max width">
        <div class="x-landmark-breadcrumbs-wrap">
          <div class="x-landmark">       
              <h1 class="h-landmark"><span>Blog Title</span></h1>      
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </header>

What would be the best way to fix this?

Thank you,
J

Thank you for posting in! You could create another header on your child theme.
The best way is copying some x theme files.

For example.

1. Copy x theme’s header.php and rename it into header-event.php, and place it in your child theme.

Then you can just call it like :

get_header('event');

2. In your header-event.php code, you should change it into :

<?php x_get_view( x_get_stack(), 'wp', 'header-event' ); ?>

3. Then copy your /x/framework/views/{STACK}/wp-header.php into /x-child-{STACK}/framework/views/{STACK}/wp-header-event.php

4. Edit your wp-header-event.php and find something like :
<?php x_get_view( '{STACK}', '_landmark-header' ); ?>
and edit it into :
<?php x_get_view( '{STACK}', '_landmark-header-event' ); ?>

5. Copy your /x/framework/views/{STACK}/_landmark-header.php into /x-child-{STACK}/framework/views/{STACK}/_landmark-header-event.php

6. Then edit your new _landmark-header-event.php 🙂

Hope this helps.

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, I’m not using a child theme (I haven’t ever) – I am just using X, and I have my custom post type & the templates in a plugin. I’m going to try the instructions you’ve provided however, only with the plugin rather than a child theme. My only concern is that I want to be able to update the X theme version in the future – will that be a problem if I copy and paste the code from header.php? Would I have to update the custom header file every time I update the theme?

Thanks,
Jack

Thank you for the update.

I’m sorry but you can’t preserve this modification without using a child theme. You can edit the title for the custom post type on framework > views > {stack} > _landmark-header.php. Find this code on line 34:

<?php if ( is_singular( 'x-portfolio' ) ) : ?>

              <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo get_theme_mod( 'x_portfolio_title' ); ?></span></h1>

            <?php else : ?>

              <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo get_theme_mod( 'x_renew_blog_title' ); ?></span></h1>

            <?php endif; ?>

Replace it with this:

 <?php if ( is_singular( 'x-portfolio' ) ) : ?>

              <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo get_theme_mod( 'x_portfolio_title' ); ?></span></h1>

            <?php elseif ( is_singular( 'event' ) ) : ?>
            
              <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php $title = get_the_title(); echo $title; ?></span></h1>
              
             <?php else : ?>

              <h1 class="h-landmark"><span><?php echo get_theme_mod( 'x_renew_blog_title' ); ?></span></h1>

I hope that helps.

Thanks for updating the thread. It’s a pretty old thread so it would be better if you open a new thread and provide your information there in a separate private reply. It will help to keep to forum clean, updated and useful for others.

Cheers!