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[newedgemarketing]

I currently have my most recent post at the top of my home page followed by 4 or 5 of the most recent articles underneath the most recent.

The article underneath are small so you get two articles in the width as the one above it, hope that makes sense!

What I want to do is change it so that its just 4 or 5 posts directly underneath each other all the same width (showing excerts only not the full width - I know how to do that but.

I'm just not sure how to display the posts on the home page that way!

Thanks in advance!

http://www.newedgemarketing.co.uk/

[Marcy]

You have to edit your home.php template in your eleven-40-pro theme folder. You should make a copy first and then you will need to upload it using your CPanel file manager or FTP.

In home.php find:

//* Add Genesis grid loop
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'eleven40_grid_loop_helper' );
function eleven40_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features'              => 1,
			'feature_image_size'    => 0,
			'feature_image_class'   => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size'       => 'grid-featured',
			'grid_image_class'      => 'grid-featured',
			'grid_content_limit'    => 250,
			'more'                  => __( '[Continue reading]', 'eleven40' ),
		) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

Features is the large post at the top, so you will want to change the 1 to 5. And then the feature_content_limit is 0 which means that the entire post shows. You can leave it 0 so all the post content for all the posts show, or you can change it to something else, like 250 characters or 450 characters.
Then it would look like:

//* Add Genesis grid loop
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'eleven40_grid_loop_helper' );
function eleven40_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features'              => 5,
			'feature_image_size'    => 0,
			'feature_image_class'   => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 450,
			'grid_image_size'       => 'grid-featured',
			'grid_image_class'      => 'grid-featured',
			'grid_content_limit'    => 250,
			'more'                  => __( '[Continue reading]', 'eleven40' ),
		) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

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