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[Houston]

I am wanting to add some extra static info to the blog index page. I am using icon and was wondering if you could tell me what page I would need to copy over to the child theme and edit it so show these modifications I want to include. This info should ONLY be seen on the blog index page.
http://askaricollection.com/blog/

Many thanks,
Houston

[Rue Nel]

Hello Houston,

Thanks for writing in! Since you have your child theme active and ready, please follow the following steps below:
1] Using Notepad or TextEdit or Sublime Text or any text editor, please create a new file in your local machine.
2] Insert the following code into that new file

<?php

// =============================================================================
// VIEWS/ICON/WP-INDEX.PHP
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Index page output for Icon.
// =============================================================================

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

  <div class="x-main full" role="main">
    <div class="x-container offset-bottom">

      <?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>

      	<div class="custom-content">
      		<p>Add your custom content here</p>
      	</div>

      <?php endif; ?>

      <?php x_get_view( 'global', '_index' ); ?>

    </div>
  </div>

  <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

3] Save the file named as wp-index.php
4] Upload this file to your server in the child theme’s folder
wp-content/themes/x-child/framework/views/icon/

Please let us know if this works out for you.

[Houston]

That works perfectly, but now I am wondering since the content that I am wanting to put in will probably be a plugin that will feature the latest post at the top of this masonry layout. Will look something like this: https://hello.jcrew.com/

Am I headed down the correct path or will the plugin just take care of this natively? I have not found the plugin yet, I am making an assumption unless you have a better method of accomplishing this?

Many thanks,
Houston

[Houston]

Also, how would I go about putting the Mailchimp Newsletter signup form code on this blog index page?

Many thanks,
Houston

[Rad]

Hi there,

Is it the signup form from Mailchimp, or shortcode from X Mailchimp extension? Either way, you can add it by changing a part of the code from this,

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>

      	<div class="custom-content">
      		<p>Add your custom content here</p>
      	</div>

      <?php endif; ?>

to these,

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>

      	<div class="custom-content">
      		<p>Add your custom content here</p>

<--!REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MAICHIMP EMBED CODE-->

      	</div>

      <?php endif; ?>

or

<?php if ( is_home() ) : ?>

      	<div class="custom-content">
      		<p>Add your custom content here</p>

<?php echo do_shortcode('[x_subscribe form="435"]') ; ?>

      	</div>

<?php endif; ?>

Hope this helps.

[Houston]

Perfect, that will do it.

[Rue Nel]

Alright then. Please let us know how it goes.

Have a great weekend.

[Author]

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