homepage post display

[alexshenkar]

Hi Guys!

I'm want to create a homepage with an infinite scroll. So what I'm looking for is a long singe column of posts.

How do I do this?

I tried Mocha and the Minimum theme, but they display one full post on the homepage, and then they show a summary of the remaining posts in two columns.

How do I change this?

Thanks!

[Brad Dalton]

Jetpack includes infinite scroll or you can install a separate plugin and then display full content posts rather than excerpts.

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[alexshenkar]

Hi Brad, Thanks for your input.

I think there are two things which I'm trying to do.

The first, I want to create a single column of posts on the home page.
The second issue is that I want to enable the infinite scroll.

I'd like to focus on getting the posts to show up in a single column first, and then once that's working, I can make the infinite scroll part work too.

To be more specific about a single column of posts, take a look at this demo homepage:

http://demo.studiopress.com/mocha/

You see how you have one post at the top in full length, and then four post excerpts at the bottom? Thats what I'm trying to change.

I would like for the homepage to look more like this:

http://demo.studiopress.com/streamline/

You see how you have the posts in one column - that's what I'm going for. Then, after that is set, I'd like to make the infinite scroll work.

Any help or input is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
-Alexander

[Brad Dalton]

Which theme are you using?

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[alexshenkar]

Hi Brad, I'm using the Mocha theme right now. But I noticed that many of the genesis child themes have the same setup on the homepage. Hopefully the solution isn't tied to which theme I'm using. Thanks for your help. -Alexander

[Brad Dalton]

You can simply change the settings in the home.php file to display features:

<?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' => 5,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 10000,
			'grid_image_size' => 0,
			'grid_image_class' => 0,
			'grid_content_limit' => 0,
			'more' => __( '[Continue reading]', 'genesis' ),
			'posts_per_page' => 5,
		) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

genesis();

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[alexshenkar]

Hi Brad - thanks for your help. I think that code snippet will get me where I need to go. I can take it from here. Thanks 🙂

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