Lifestyle Pro comment links

[tashworth19191]

I have a client that wants his whole recent blog post (5) to display on the front page (see link). I modified the Lifestyle Pro theme to do this fine.

Now he wants the a link to comments on the bottom of each post (and show the current number of comments) after each post on his front page. I read through the Genesis hooks and could not figure out how to do this.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards, Tom Ashworth

http://boiseblog.com

[Lauren @ OnceCoupled]

Use the entry meta in the footer to do this. http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/entry-footer/#customize

The shortcode you want is the same that's being hidden from your entry meta in the header: [post_comments]. You can customize what this outputs, too: http://my.studiopress.com/docs/shortcode-reference/

Best,
Lauren

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[tashworth19191]

Hi Lauren, I put it in functions.php on lifestyle pro them that did not work so I put in on the front-page template. Here is what is on the front page template right now. Still cannot figure out how to get it to display.

function lifestyle_home_genesis_meta() {
	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-top' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-middle' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-bottom-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-bottom-right' ) ) {
		// Force content-sidebar layout setting
		add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar' );
		// Add lifestyle-pro-home body class
		add_filter( 'body_class', 'lifestyle_body_class' );
		// Remove the default Genesis loop
		remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
		add_filter( 'genesis_post_meta', 'sp_post_meta_filter' );
		// Add homepage widgets
		add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'lifestyle_homepage_widgets' );
	}
}

function sp_post_meta_filter($post_meta) {
	$post_meta = '[post_categories] [post_tags]';
	return $post_meta;
}

function lifestyle_body_class( $classes ) {
	$classes[] = 'lifestyle-pro-home';
	return $classes;
}

function lifestyle_homepage_widgets() {
	genesis_widget_area( 'home-top', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-top widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',
	) );
	genesis_widget_area( 'home-middle', array(
		'before' => '<div class="home-middle widget-area">',
		'after'  => '</div>',
	) );
	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'home-bottom-left' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'home-bottom-right' ) ) {
		echo '<div class="home-bottom">';
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom-left', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-bottom-left widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
		genesis_widget_area( 'home-bottom-right', array(
			'before' => '<div class="home-bottom-right widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
		echo '</div>';
	}
}

genesis();

[Lauren @ OnceCoupled]

It's there, but your CSS is hiding it.

.entry-meta {
     visibility: hidden !important;
}

You'll need to make some other adjustments to style it, too.

Best,
Lauren

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We create mobile-first, PageSpeed-optimized, pixel-perfect custom themes! https://www.oncecoupled.com

[tashworth19191]

Lauren, Thank you so much for being so helpful. Hopefully I can return the favor some day..

Regards, Tom...

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