Best Place To Customize Loops, Widgets, Functions

[muzicman82]

Hi all,

I'm using the Lifestyle Theme, but I'm not sure my questions are specific to that. I need to customize the output of some of the Genesis/Lifestyle loops or widgets. What is the best approach to this so I am not modifying Genesis directly?

I imagine there are code chunks I can copy out of original Genesis files and put in the Lifestyle Child Theme and modify there.

One main one is the Featured Posts Widget. On this widget, I want to override where the link takes you. So, on the homepage, I have it setup as a post with content, but when it is clicked on, I want it to take you somewhere else, not to this post. One way I thought to specify where it takes you is to add a Custom Field to the post, where the value is the post ID of where the link should go, but I need to modify the Widget output to include this. I also want the Title for the "show title" option on the bottom left/right to be centered for the Featured Category part.

Thanks.

[Brad Dalton]

I imagine there are code chunks I can copy out of original Genesis files and put in the Lifestyle Child Theme and modify there.

Genesis includes the genesis_custom_loop function you can use to create a custom loop however this does not apply to the featured posts widget which uses its own WP_Query.

function genesis_custom_loop( $args = array() ) {

	global $wp_query, $more;

	$defaults = array(); //* For forward compatibility
	$args     = apply_filters( 'genesis_custom_loop_args', wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults ), $args, $defaults );

	$wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );

	//* Only set $more to 0 if we're on an archive
	$more = is_singular() ? $more : 0;

	genesis_standard_loop();

	//* Restore original query
	wp_reset_query();

}

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