Often it is prudent to force a page layout, especially the home page.
Within Genesis, the guidance is fairly scant
<?php //* Do NOT include the opening php tag //* Force content-sidebar layout setting add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar' ); //* Force sidebar-content layout setting add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_sidebar_content' ); //* Force content-sidebar-sidebar layout setting add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar_sidebar' ); //* Force sidebar-sidebar-content layout setting add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_sidebar_sidebar_content' ); //* Force sidebar-content-sidebar layout setting add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_sidebar_content_sidebar' ); //* Force full-width-content layout setting add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );
But with no real guidance how do you use it?
Firstly, you may want this to apply to the front page or a specific template.
In which case just add it to your front_page.php or page_template.php, but it needs to be hooked to genesis meta (they forget to tell you this
<?php
//* Do NOT include the opening php tag
add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'bw_home_genesis_meta' );
function bw_home_genesis_meta() {
// Force content-sidebar layout setting
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar' );
}
Some times, you may want to be more ‘conditional’ and hence you could apply similar logic in your functions.php, in the following I am using a priority of 11, because I know the front_page template forces a lyout and by using a higher priority than the default (10) my functions.php will take priority
add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'bw_force_layout' );
function bw_force_layout() {
if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_sidebar_content_sidebar' ,11);
}
}