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How display top post home page as excerpt in Balance

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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › How display top post home page as excerpt in Balance

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Tagged: Balance, home page, home.php, post excerpt

  • This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 5 months ago by webartsco.
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  • December 14, 2013 at 5:32 pm #79130
    webartsco
    Member

    I'm using the full width of my home page in Balance and want the first post to display as an excerpt, with subsequent posts below as excerpts in two columns.

    That was working ok on a previous installation on a test site but a server outage saw my whole WordPress installation disappear and with it whatever settings I had in place.

    In Genesis Theme Settings -> Content Archives I've checked display posts as excerpts (if that is relevant) and posts are in fact displaying as excerpts on the /blog page and on the home page, except for that top post on the home page.

    http://deswalsh.com
    December 14, 2013 at 6:03 pm #79134
    nutsandbolts
    Member

    Your home.php is using the Genesis grid loop, which tells it to have one featured (i.e. full length) post. You can change that by finding this part in home.php:

    	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
    	
    		genesis_grid_loop( array(
    			'features' => 1,
    			'feature_image_size' => 0,
    			'feature_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
    			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
    			'grid_image_size' => 'grid',
    			'grid_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
    			'grid_content_limit' => 0,
    			'more' => __( 'Continue reading...', 'genesis' ),
    			'posts_per_page' => 5,
    		) );

    And changing "features" to zero instead of one.


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

    December 14, 2013 at 7:04 pm #79140
    webartsco
    Member

    Thanks Andrea. I thought there would be an option where I could have a full width, but excerpt version of the first post.

    But what you have suggested works.

    cheers

    Des

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