Pretty Chic – Adding a Read More link to Archives

[skichic95]

I just switched my Pretty Chic theme (on my blog, pinkheelspinktruck.com) to the Home Page version (using the various widgets of the theme), rather than just showing full blog posts. Previously, I just had 2 full blog posts showing on each page and at the bottom of the 2nd blog post, there would be a button that would take you further into the blog's archives.
Since switching to more of a landing page style home page (where I'm now only showing one full blog post via the Genesis Featured Post widget) and then showing 10 Blog Posts as snippets (via the Genesis Featured Post widget), I've lost the functionality to have a link to Read More or Previous posts, etc...that lead people to the archives.
Is there a way to insert a button at the bottom of my 10 blog post snippets that can take people into my archives, that's not category specific?
Similar to the Read More link at http://www.theglitterguide.com (found before the Topic of the Month section on that site).
I've asked the theme developers and they're telling me, that outside of the categories in the Genesis Featured Post widget, there's not a way to include a link somehow, similar to The Glitter Guides...however, The Glitter Guide is running on another theme by the same creator.

http://pinkheelspinktruck.com

[Susan]

Taylor:

In the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified, you can add in a link to your archives, but it's to all your blog archives, not to your next page of blog posts. Will that work for what you need?

[skichic95]

What do you mean to all of your blog archives?
Is there not a way to get to page 2, page 3, page 4 of the archives? Each showing 10 posts at a time?
Do I need to switch to the Fun theme from Pretty Darn Cute, to get this functionality?

[Susan]

You could adjust the URL to direct visitors specifically to page two of your blog archives - just adjust the URL in the widget, like I have done on my demo site here - link)

The Fun theme doesn't automatically provide that functionality, either, from the widgetized home page. The site you linked to is a heavily customized version of the FUN theme, and when I clicked on the "read more", it took me to a page which started with the same post as on the front page, so it's probably coded in much the same way.

If you want pure blog archive pagination, then you should use the theme as a blog (whether that theme is Pretty Chic or Fun); a widgetized home page will require an adjustment, depending on which route you want to take (either adjusting the code, or adding in specific widgets).

[skichic95]

Okay, who can I hire to do this? Any recommendations?
I tested this link: http://www.pinkheelspinktruck.com/blog/page/2/
but it's full posts, not archived snippets. :/
The last time I attempted to adjust my code, I crashed my site.

[Susan]

If you want your blog archives to display snippets, go to Dashboard > Genesis > Theme Settings > Content Archives > check the box to display post excerpts.

[skichic95]

Okay, I fixed the archives thing and I tried installing the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified and it did weird things to my homepage. Currently, with the featured post widget, I have 10 blog posts showing in the Home - Bottom widget. When I turned on the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified, it switched it to just 2 blog posts and in my Below Content area, everything got screwy...it was showing the same featured image in all 4 categories and altered the text that is overlayed on those images.
I turned it back off, cleared my cache and everything went back to normal. I thought maybe it was bc I hadn't updated to the latest Genesis version. So I updated that, turned the Genesis Featured Widget Amplified back on, cleared my cache and still same result. Is this normally this buggy?
I'm wondering if it was because I told it to do the pagination thing?? But then why mess with the Below Content area?

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