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Controlling How The Blog Shows Up

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  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 8 years, 5 months ago by nymills.
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  • October 24, 2014 at 7:33 am #128964
    nymills
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    Is it possible to have the top two blog posts show on the blog page in their entirety and then the rest of the posts to show partial? If so, how do I do this? I have a client asking for this.

    Thanks for your help!

    October 24, 2014 at 1:21 pm #129000
    badlydrawnben
    Member

    It's Genesis - anything is possible!

    There's 3 ways I'd go about tackling this:

    1. 1. Do some Googling of creating a custom WordPress loop and edit the blog template with that. I don't think any of Sridhar's tutorials tackle that exact loop problem but they'll show you how to create your own Genesis template.
    2. If you can make it a widget area then the Genesis Featured Posts widget will allow you to set the first 2 posts to full content, then print a list of the remaining ones. I'd go for that option first.
    3. Get the Views plugin from wp-types. It costs $99 or so, but in my experience it saved me countless hours as it lets you create custom wp-loop queries and outputs really easily without touching the PHP code. I use it on almost all of my projects these days.

    Thanks,
    Ben

    October 27, 2014 at 1:45 pm #129472
    nymills
    Member

    Thanks, Ben! Very helpful!

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