modify archive.php focus pro

[saralaughs]

Hey everyone. I'm using the Focus Pro child theme. I'd like to simplify my archives considerably.. What comes up now looks like this:

CATEGORY TITLE

POST/PAGE TITLE
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EXCERPT

And a big space between listings...

POST/PAGE TITLE
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EXCERPT

Then it repeats itself, of course. What I want is:

CATEGORY TITLE

POST/PAGE TITLE (with link) | category 1, category 3
POST/PAGE TITLE (with link) | category 3
POST/PAGE TITLE (with link) | category 6, category 2
POST/PAGE TITLE (with link) | category 20, category 8

That is: no excerpts, no dates or authors. Just title, link, categories.

I know about duplicating and then changing the archive.php file, but I'm finding it too complicated from within Focus Pro/Genesis. I also looked for plugins, with (not surprisingly) no success.

Any pointers much appreciated.

http://thegildedhour.com

[Porter]

As a starting point, add this to your functions.php:

add_action ( 'genesis_entry_header', 'themeprefix_remove_post_meta' );
function themeprefix_remove_post_meta() {
	if (is_archive()) {
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 ); //Date, author, etc.
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 ); //Featured image
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' ); //The Excerpt
	}
}

This will remove the date, author, etc, the featured image if shown, and the excerpt, which should simply leave the title as a link, and the category. Your biggest issue then will be making it look good. I'd definitely consider creating a custom archive template if you can't achieve what you're looking for with the above, as the actual visuals of this may require it. One final note, that site is currently taking 12+ seconds to load according to a chrome extension I use, you may want to look into that.

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[saralaughs]

Thank you, Porter. That did the trick.

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