how to display custom post type in blog format

[horace1]

Hi,

Ive created a custom post tyle and copied and pasted the single files over so it says 'single-latest_news.php' to my child theme. however i am trying to create a menu that says ' latest news' and then when you click on it, it shows all the latest news and then when you click on a single news it shows the full story. How would i go about doing that?

Many thanks

Horace

add_action( 'init', 'create_custom_post_type' );

function create_custom_post_type() {

$labels = array(
'name' => __( 'Latest News' ),
'singular_name' => __( 'Latest News' ),
'all_items' => __('All Latest News')
);

$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'public' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'latest_news'),
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'genesis-seo', 'thumbnail','genesis-cpt-archives-settings' ),
);

register_post_type( 'latest_news', $args);
}

[Brad Dalton]

Simply link to the CPT archive like this example http://example.com/latest_news/

Also, you don't need to add CPT templates for single and archives as WordPress uses the template hierarchy to load the standard single and archive templates included in Genesis.

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[horace1]

Ok thanks but how can i make it show a excerpt instead of the whole story and display thumbnails?

[Brad Dalton]

There's different methods.

1. If your CPT supports excerpts, you can use the wordPress excerpts meta box to add a custom excerpt.

2. Use the Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives > Display Entry excerpts

3. Create a CPT archive file and add code to it to remove the content and add a excerpt.

Otherwise, you can use code to modify the CPT loop.

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