Layout Settings

You can control your content’s layout in Customizer under the Posts & Archives, Other Post Types, and Pages panels. Posts & Archives covers your blog feed, category and tag archives, and individual post pages. Pages covers your static WordPress pages, including any pages created by Paid Memberships Pro such as your Account, Checkout, and Membership Levels pages. You can also add layout settings for custom post types.

You can find these settings under:

Appearance > Customize > Posts & Archives
Appearance > Customize > Other Post Types (For compatible post types or post types passed through the memberlite_customizer_cpts filter.)
Appearance > Customize > Pages

Memberlite Customizer layout settings tabs

Posts & Archives
Other Post Types
Pages

Posts & Archives

Archive Layout

The settings under Appearance > Customize > Posts & Archives control how posts appear on your blog feed and archive pages (category pages, tag pages, date archives, and author archives). This does not affect individual post pages.

Show Full Post Content: Displays the complete text of each post on archive pages. Visitors do not need to click through to read a post. Works well for sites with short posts or when you want to surface your full content immediately.
Show Post Excerpts: Displays a short preview of each post with a “Read More” link. The excerpt is either the manually written excerpt from the post editor, the text before a More block if you have added one, or an automatically generated snippet if neither is set.
Show Posts in a Grid (sidebar hidden): Arranges posts in a grid of cards rather than a stacked list. The sidebar is hidden automatically when this option is selected.

The default is “Show Full Post Content”.

Sidebar Location

Controls where the sidebar appears on your blog feed, archive pages, and individual post pages.

Right Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the right of the main content. This is the default.
Left Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the left of the main content.
No Sidebar: The sidebar is hidden. The main content expands to fill the available width.

Columns Ratio

Controls how the available width is divided between the main content area and the sidebar. This setting only appears when Sidebar Location is set to “Right Sidebar” or “Left Sidebar”.

The two numbers represent the content column width and the sidebar column width out of a 12-unit grid. For example, “8×4” gives the content 8 units and the sidebar 4 units. “9×3” makes the sidebar narrower. “6×6” splits the space evenly.

The default is “8×4”.

If compatible custom post types are detected, or you’re passing post types of your own through the memberlite_customizer_cpts filter, by default, these post types will inherit the Archive Layout, Sidebar Location and Columns Ratio settings from the Posts & Archives. Not all third party post types are supported.

Other Post Types

If compatible custom post types are detected, an Other Post Types panel will appear in Customizer. Each custom post type will have its own section where you can control settings for Archive Layout, Sidebar Location, and Columns Ratio. By default, custom post types will inherit these settings from the Posts & Archives panel.

Compatible Post Types

Memberlite automatically checks for these PMPro Add On custom post types. If the Add On is activated from your WP Admin, a new section will be added under Appearance > Customize > Other Post Types for each compatible post type.

pmpro_course is registered from the Courses for Membership Add On
pmpro_lesson is also registered from the Courses for Membership Add On
pmpro_series is registered from the Series: Drip-Feed Content Add On

Passing Your Own Custom Post Types

Custom post types registered by third-party plugins or child themes can be added using the memberlite_customizer_cpts filter. The filter accepts an array of custom post type slugs.

add_filter( 'memberlite_customizer_cpts', function( $cpts ) {
	$cpts[] = 'my_cpt_slug';
	return $cpts;
} );

Custom post type slugs are case sensitive, so passing My_CPT_Slug instead of my_cpt_slug is not the same. They would be considered two different post types by WordPress. You can confirm what your post type slug is by clicking the post type in your WP Admin sidebar, and looking at the post_type part of your browser URL. It’ll look like this: my-site-url.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=my_cpt_slug

Custom Post Type Behavior

By default, custom post types will inherit the Archive Layout, Sidebar Location, and Columns Ratio settings from the Posts & Archives panel. Even if post types are automatically detected or manually passed through the memberlite_customizer_cpts filter, unless you go to that post type’s section in Customizer and uncheck the “Inherit from Posts & Archives” checkbox, you will not be able to adjust those settings separately for that post type.

Uncheck the 'Inherit from Posts and Archives' checkbox in customizer to control layout settings for your post type separately.

Not all third-party post types are supported even if they’re passed through the filter and settings for that post type shows under Other Post Types. You can usually predict whether a third-party post type will properly obey these settings if the archive and single view for that post type uses Memberlite theme templates.

Pages

The settings under Appearance > Customize > Pages control sidebar layout for your static WordPress pages. This includes pages you create yourself and any pages generated by Paid Memberships Pro.

Sidebar Location

Right Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the right of the main content. This is the default.
Left Sidebar: The sidebar appears to the left of the main content.
No Sidebar: The sidebar is hidden and the content expands to fill the full width. This is applied automatically to pages using the Full Width or Fluid Width page templates, regardless of this setting.