Genesis Grid is not displaying on custom template

[csbeck]

I've created a custom child theme for Genesis and I have custom templates that are used to show a grid of posts on main pages on my site - like this page: http://www.beckerstudio.com/portfolio/

The grid was showing up before I updated WordPress and Genesis as well as setting my PHP to 5.4. I tried resetting PHP to 5.2 but that didn't fix it.

The code I'm using on that page is: https://gist.github.com/csbeck/5134677
<?php
/**
* Template Name: Portfolio Grid
* This file displays a Grid within a page.
*/
add_action( 'genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );

/**remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );**/

add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_grid_loop' );
function child_grid_loop() {
$args = array(
'features' => 2,
'feature_image_size' => 'grid-feature-image',
'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
'feature_content_limit' => 500,
'grid_image_size' => 'grid-thumbnail',
'grid_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
'grid_content_limit' => 0,
'loop' => 'custom',
'more' => __( '[Continue reading...]', 'genesis' ),
'posts_per_page' => 12,
);

if ( genesis_get_custom_field( 'query_args' ) )
$args['cat'] = genesis_get_custom_field( 'query_args' );

genesis_grid_loop( $args );
}

/** Remove the post meta function for front page only **/
remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );
Can someone please help with getting my grid to show up again?

Thanks! Chris

[Brian Bourn]

It's probably due to your posts per page argument. With 1.9 there were a few changes announced with the grid loop and you will now need to get pre_get_posts first. This should get you to what you need to do. http://wpsmith.net/2013/genesis/genesis-grid-loop-in-genesis-1-9/

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[csbeck]

Thanks so much Brian. This was a great help. It took a while to go through these (I guess I'm not as proficient in PHP so it was a little vague as to where all of this code needed to go). I found that I had to add the code to my functions.php. I was then able to set my pages templates to the blog template and it worked (mostly). http://www.beckerstudio.com/portfolio/design/websites/

I still wasn't able to see the 2 feature items on my particular pages. I did see the 2 features though if I went to an archive page.

http://www.beckerstudio.com/category/portfolio/portfolio-design/portfolio-websites/

I wonder if there's a way to get my regular pages set to the page_blog.php template to show this layout. I'm using a custom template on these pages because I wanted to show some introductory content above my portfolio pieces. Perhaps there a better way to do this?

My page_blog.php template uses this code:

<?php
/**
* WARNING: This file is part of the core Genesis framework. DO NOT edit
* this file under any circumstances. Please do all modifications
* in the form of a child theme.
*
* Template Name: Blog with Content
* This file handles blog post listings within a page.
*/
add_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_standard_loop', 8);
genesis();

I appreciate anyone's additional help or direction if possible. I'm almost there.

Thanks, Chris!

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