Force a layout in a template

Here’s a code snippet you can use when you want to lock down a layout for a specific template. Just drop the following into a single-posttype.php, template-something.php, etc before the genesis() function:

add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

Note: __genesis_return_full_width_content is a helper function built into Genesis. See the end of this post on all available helper functions: Overriding Options and Meta.

Alternate method from Brad in the comments below which can go in functions.php:

/** Force full width layout */
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', 'child_do_layout' );
function child_do_layout( $opt ) {
	if ( is_single() ) { // Modify the conditions to apply the layout to here
		$opt = 'full-width-content'; // You can change this to any Genesis layout
		return $opt;
	}
}

As a reminder, Genesis comes with 6 default layouts:

content-sidebar
sidebar-content
content-sidebar-sidebar
sidebar-sidebar-content
sidebar-content-sidebar
full-width-content

See Brian Gardner’s post on creating a landing page in Genesis for a practical example of how you would use this.

Updated: 17 June 2013