How to show excerpts of Posts on homepage in Focus Pro Theme

[Salman]

Hello Everyone,

I'm currently using Focus Pro Theme for my new blog http://www.salmaniac.com and everything's come out pretty well according to me. It's still under development and I haven't shared it with anyone else. Waiting to iron out a few kinks and add more content. I've written just two posts currently.

I'm not able to figure one thing out: the theme shows the entire post on the homepage. I don't want that. An excerpt of a few lines would do, with 'Read More' or 'Continue Reading' link that takes a user to the post's webpage.

Any idea how I can do that? I see that other themes in Genesis have that functionality. Beautiful Pro theme is one example of that.

http://www.salmaniac.com

[jodzeee]

Try this tutorial from Brad Dalton:

Set Post & Content Limits For Home, Blog & Archive Pages

[Salman]

Can't access the page. It says:

Sorry but this content is not available in your country at the moment.

Weird.

[Genesis Developer]

go to Genesis->Theme Option page and scroll down little bit. there have content archives section and choose the excerpt option from drop down. You'll get your desired result.

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[Salman]

That works only for archive pages (categories and tags) and not the homepage. I want to modify the homepage.

[Salman]

From what I understand through googling, I must make changes to the front_page.php of my child theme (i.e. Focus Pro).

Here's what the code on my fornt_page.php looks like:

<?php
/**
 * This file adds the Home Page to the Focus Pro Theme.
 *
 * @author StudioPress
 * @package Focus Pro
 * @subpackage Customizations
 */
 
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'focus_grid_loop_helper' );

//* Add support for Genesis Grid Loop
function focus_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features'              => 2,
			'feature_image_size'    => 0,
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size'		=> 'home-grid-thumbnail',
			'grid_image_class'		=> 'alignnone',
			'grid_content_limit' 	=> 250,
			'more' 					=> __( '[Continue reading]', 'focus' ),
		) );
	}

	else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

genesis();

While I can make out what some of the code implies, I don't want to randomly play around with it. Can anyone please suggest what I should change in the code so that the homepage shows only a full width feature image and post excerpt, with Continue Reading link after it?

[Genesis Developer]

change
`genesis_grid_loop( array(
'features' => 2,
'feature_image_size' => 0,
'feature_content_limit' => 0,
'grid_image_size' => 'home-grid-thumbnail',
'grid_image_class' => 'alignnone',
'grid_content_limit' => 250,
'more' => __( '[Continue reading]', 'focus' ),
) );`
by
`genesis_grid_loop( array(
'features' => 2,
'feature_image_size' => 'full',
'feature_content_limit' => 250,
'grid_image_size' => 'home-grid-thumbnail',
'grid_image_class' => 'alignnone',
'grid_content_limit' => 250,
'more' => __( '[Continue reading]', 'focus' ),
) );`

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Download Genesis Featured Posts Combo Widget | Simple Grid Layouts Plugin for Posts, CPTs and terms
You can request new tips/help.

[Salman]

@genwrock Thank a lot. That worked. I made a few modifications to the character limit though.

[Author]

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