genesis_custom_loop vs genesis_grid_loop: How to format posts?

[travlanders]

Hi,

New to Genesis and trying to work out some kinks...

I am fairly familiar with things but I may slip up so help with my lingo, thoughts if you can please....

I want to list certain posts based on metadata so I am using genesis_custom_loop

genesis_custom_loop( array(
			'meta_key' => '_fb_count', 
			'orderby' => '_fb_count', 
			'order' => 'DESC'
		) );

This works great... returns what I would expect... Cool...

My question comes from moving from a genesis_grid_loop to this new genesis_custom_loop...

My old code used the genesis_grid_loop and I was able to have limited control over how the posts looked:

genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features'				=> 0,
			'feature_image_size'	=> 0,
			'feature_content_limit'	=> 0,
			'grid_image_size' => 'previewImage',
			'grid_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'grid_content_limit'	=> 250,
			'more'					=> __( '[Read more]', 'minimum' ),
		) );

I could pass in these args and manipulate features or image size, etc...

How can I manipulate how the posts look using a genesis_custom_loop?
What args can I pass it?

I tried something like:

genesis_custom_loop( array(
			'features'				=> 0,
			'feature_image_size'	=> 0,
			'feature_content_limit'	=> 0,
			'grid_image_size' => 'previewImage',
			'grid_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'grid_content_limit'	=> 250,
			'more'					=> __( '[Read more]', 'minimum' ),
			'meta_key' => '_fb_count', 
			'orderby' => '_fb_count', 
			'order' => 'DESC'
		) );

But everything was ignored regarding style...
Ultimately I would like to be able to add a facebook like button somewhere within each post. I am thinking next to the comments... How can I did into that area? Hook into it?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,
Travis

ps- if you head to the url you can see my site... really i am not sure if it is helpful for this question though...

http://thefrankenstoryproject.com/

[Susan]

Hi, as you posted this a while back, I hope you got your issue resolved. If not, please check back, and I will escalate for you. If it is resolved, please mark “resolved”, and I will close it. Thanks!

[travlanders]

The original question which was not stated very well was how to manipulate what the posts looked like...

I wanted to add something to line of the post where the number of comments are displayed.

I thought this would be somehow connected to the query array but it is not...

In the end I used my custom query to return my results then I hooked into that comment line which is actually called $post_Info. I inserted this filter on my functions page......

add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'post_info_filter' );
function post_info_filter( $post_info ) {
	$addedString = 'Stuff I wanted to add which was a FB like tag';
	return $post_info.$addedString;
}

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