Grid Loop in Site Archives

[liannef]

Hi There!

I would love to use the grid loop for my site archives. It's working everywhere else on the site but this page. Currently they look like this http://themakeupgirl.net/archive/

I am using the Mocha theme

Any help you could give would be appreciated!

Thank you!!

http://www.themakeupgirl.net

[nutsandbolts]

It seems like something is up with your archives... When I try to view your category pages, I'm getting the long list like on your archive page instead of the post archives. For example, if I click on Popular Categories > Beauty News in your nav, I'm being sent to a page (http://themakeupgirl.net/beauty-news/) instead of the category archive (http://themakeupgirl.net/category/beauty-news/). If I try to visit the category archive manually, I get redirected to your homepage.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[liannef]

Hey Andrea,

I was trying something - it's back now LOL

[liannef]

Hey Andrea,

Any idea how I can do the grid on that link?

-Lianne

[nutsandbolts]

The easiest way is the Genesis Grid Loop plugin - you can choose which pages show the grid and which ones don't.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[liannef]

Does that conflict with the grid loop code that is already in the theme?

[nutsandbolts]

It shouldn't, as long as you don't select the homepage (or wherever the loop is being used by the theme) in the plugin settings.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[liannef]

Okay, I have the plugin installed. But there isn't anyplace to specify what pages only this

Enable on:

Blog Home Category Archives Tag Archives Author Archives Search Results

Is there a shortcode to use it on a page?

[nutsandbolts]

No, but if you use the automatically-generated category archives as I mentioned before (instead of creating a page manually for each category), you can check the category archives box and it will show up on all of them.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[liannef]

They aren't pages - they just have the "category" stripped via the Yoast plugin. Those are the actual categories....I just want to be able to display a grid on a page instead of this list that appears (i think I'm using the archive template) http://themakeupgirl.net/archive/

[nutsandbolts]

Okay, in that case make a template called myarchive.php or something, stick the grid loop in it, and assign it as the template for that page.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

[liannef]

Hey Andrea,

I added this code to a new .php file and uploaded it but it's not showing in my template options for the page

<?php

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_grid_loop_helper' );
/** Add support for Genesis Grid Loop **/
function child_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 0,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size' => 30,
			'grid_image_class' => 0,
			'grid_content_limit' => 250,
			'more' => __( '[Continue reading]', 'genesis' ),
		) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

genesis();

[nutsandbolts]

You need a heading at the top (right under the opening PHP tag) to let WP know it's a template file:

<?php
/*
 * Template Name: My Custom Template
 */

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
I provide development and training services for designers • Find me on Twitter and Google+

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