How to create 'News' overview page in Executive Pro

[Toon61]

Hi all,

This might be very obvious to the most of you, but I just don't know where to look for it.
All I want to do is create (a page with) an overview (archive?) of all blog-posts, that only shows the blog's title and maybe the publishing date. And then I want the latest/newest blog post (the first one on the list) to also show an excerpt (or character limited content).
A bit like this (of course the actual page is a bit longer):

Any idea someone?

[arush]

Hi,

You'll need to create a custom archive for this, as well as use a custom loop and add some code to your functions.php to control the excerpt length and which post it shows for. If you're not comfortable making the code adjustments yourself, you may want to look into hiring out the work.

Hope this helps,

Amanda

[anotherusername]

Just thinking out loud here...

wondering if he could "hide" the excerpt and other things using CSS???

[Toon61]

Actually, I was already thinking in that direction (using CSS to hide things), but I think a custom archive is more the way to go and in the end more flexible.

[Genesis Developer]

are you using "Blog" Template for this listing? Or you're wanting completely new page template for it? display:none; will be bad idea. I think it.

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[Genesis Developer]

create a new file page_blog.php file and put the following code:

<?php
/**
 * Genesis Framework.
 *
 * 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.
 *
 * @package Genesis\Templates
 * @author  StudioPress
 * @license GPL-2.0+
 * @link    http://my.studiopress.com/themes/genesis/
 */

//* Template Name: Blog

//* The blog page loop logic is located in lib/structure/loops.php

add_action('genesis_before_entry', 'custom_archive_page', 5);
add_filter('genesis_post_info', 'custom_post_info');

function custom_post_info($post_info){
  return '[post_date format="d-m-Y"]';
}

function custom_archive_page(){

  global $wp_query, $loop_counter;
  if ( $wp_query->current_post > 0 )
    remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
    
  remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 );
	
	
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_open', 5 );
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_close', 15 );
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );
} 

genesis();

I started the code this way. But you can modify it.

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[Toon61]

Genwrock,

This is exactly what I need. Thank you so much!
I also want to limit how much of the content is displayed (100 or 200 characters followed by a 'Continue reading...').

[Author]

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