Issues with Blog Page in WordPress and The Archive Layouts

[JohnLynch]

We currently publish blog posts and case studies in ‘Posts’ in WordPress. In Pro, I created two archive layouts - one is for the blogs and the other for case studies. I was hopeful that Pro would filter ‘blogs’ and ‘case studies’ from WordPress’s blog to their respective archives using assignment/conditions. After reading a few posts on this forum - in particular, this one (Assigning layout to specific page OR creating more than one blog archive). Here is what I understand:
In order for pagination to work, you have to use an archive. In order for blogs to populate on that archive layout, you have to designate a ‘Posts page’ in WordPress, meaning you can only have one blog archive.
So to confirm, you can’t have more than one archive retrieving content from Posts in WordPress, correct?

If this is correct, how would you recommend displaying a variety of case studies?

[ruenel]

Hello John,

Thanks for posting in! I my understanding, you have created post items and categorized them as blog post and case studies. This should NOT be the case. The blog post items and case studies should NEEDS to be a seperate independent post types. Anyways, since you already have this set up, they only way I can think of is to use a custom PHP code that filters out post items under the case studies category. The pre_get_post action hook can help with this one. take a look at these threads:

• Setting up archive for a specific category
• Display ACF Post Type on front page with pagination
• Excluding category from blog

Be advised that I am just assuming that you used categories in separating the post items. So the layout archive can be used to display the items. With the help of the custom PHP code it should work. At the moment, you would be seeing the items in these possible archive pages:

• Blog Index: displays both blog posts and case studies
  https://example.com/blog/ assuming the blog index page is entitled “blog”

• Blog Category: displays all items under blog category
  https://example.com/category/blog/

• Case Studies Category: displays all items under case study category
  https://example.com/category/case-studies/

All of these pages can use the same archive layout. If you want a different layout for the case studies then you can create another archive and assigned it specifically to the case study category.

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[prakash_s]

Hello John,

Thanks for sharing the login details I would suggest you please set the condition like this on the blog archive page so it will exclude the post from the specific category.

I noticed that you have created a custom archive layout for the specific category but you have set the Looper provider there, I would suggest you please use the Looper consumer and recheck it. Please note that you don’t need an extra loop on the archive page since the WordPress default Loop is working there.

Thanks