How to apply No Sidebar Pro’s Front Page Layout to Minimum Pro’s Category Archives

In the members-only forum a user wrote:

I wanted to add the No Sidebar Pro front page layout as the category page layout to Minimum Pro. I looked at the front-page.php and added the ns_front_page_genesis_meta, ns_full_screen_script, ns_post_class, ns_body_class, and ns_front_featured_image functions to my custom template. I added the front page js to my js folder. I modified the body class to be nsfront-page. I also added the css for the front page posts to my minimum css file. I added a filter to functions php to look for the custom template if on a category page. I'm still getting the white screen though! Could you provided a tutorial?

In this tutorial I share the steps for adding a template file for category archives of Minimum Pro so they look like the front page of No Sidebar Pro.

Step 1

Add the following in Minimum Pro's functions.php: