Keep Minimum or move to Parallax?

[Ari Herzog]

Heyas. I recently bought the Minimum Pro theme and really like what it offers. A huge step up for what I used to have with the Focus theme as Minimum is aligned with my goals.

But I'm beginning to hate the default splash look of extracted blog posts on the home page and prefer the look of other themes like Parallax Pro. Without changing themes, is it an easy fix to change the layout display?

See http://ariherzog.com. Thanks.

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I am a storyteller. I moved my blog from Thesis to Genesis in April 2013. I’m still learning.

http://ariherzog.com

[Ari Herzog]

Or maybe I go back to Focus and add in features that I like from Minimum. Hmm. Playing around. If you suddenly click over, I've no idea what you'll see!

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I am a storyteller. I moved my blog from Thesis to Genesis in April 2013. I’m still learning.

[Ari Herzog]

There are aspects of Focus that don't work for me anymore. Namely, I like the top right menu and the big social icons above the fold. Background image too. All in the Minimum Pro theme.

Is there an easy coding fix to change the default layout of showing a grid of recent posts to showing recent posts in full?

In other words, look at Danny Brown's blog that uses the Parallax Pro theme. The default home page shows his most recent posts in reverse chrono order. Scroll past one to read the next. I'd like that layout to be on my blog. Easy to do with the Minimum theme? Thoughts?

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I am a storyteller. I moved my blog from Thesis to Genesis in April 2013. I’m still learning.

[AustinMcConnell]

I think all you need to do to solve this is edit your front-page.php file (~/wp-content/themes/minimum-pro/front-page.php).

You'll see a block of code in there like this:

genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features'              => 0,
			'feature_image_size'    => 0,
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size'       => 0,
			'grid_content_limit'    => 250,
			'more'                  => __( '[Read more]', 'minimum' ),
		) );

Changing _grid_content_limit to 0 should display the whole post content. I'm not sure how you would change the date order though.

Give that a shot and let me know if it works for you.

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