Remove Blog Listings from Content Archives

[Flawed]

Hello 🙂

I currently have the following settings for the Content Archives:

Display Post Content
0 Characters
NO - Display Featured Image

This suits perfectly, except for the blog listing page in which I would like the following settings:

Display Post Excerpt
200 Characters
YES - Display Featured Image

I did follow the instructions here http://www.shilling.id.au/2012/10/22/genesis-framework-how-to-show-experts-or-full-content-on-archive-pages/ although it didn't work for the character limit nor the featured image.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many Thanks
Nicola

http://katiekingdesign.com/

[neilgee]

You can try the code below, adjust your character count where it is commented

add_action('genesis_before_loop', 'wpb_change_home_loop');

function wpb_change_home_loop() {
if( is_home() ) {

/** Replace the home loop with our custom **/
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'wpb_custom_loop' );

/** Custom lode loop */

function wpb_custom_loop() {
if ( have_posts() ) :

		do_action( 'genesis_before_while' );
		while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

			do_action( 'genesis_before_entry' );

			printf( '<article %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry' ) );

				do_action( 'genesis_entry_header' );

				do_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content' );

				printf( '<div %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry-content' ) );
				
				//do_action( 'genesis_entry_content' ); //Remove standard excerpt
				
				echo genesis_do_post_image(); //Add in featured image
				
				echo the_excerpt_max_charlength(200); //change amount of characters to display
				
				echo '</div>';

				do_action( 'genesis_after_entry_content' );

				do_action( 'genesis_entry_footer' );

			echo '</article>';

			do_action( 'genesis_after_entry' );

		endwhile; //* end of one post
		do_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile' );

	else : //* if no posts exist
		do_action( 'genesis_loop_else' );
	endif; //* end loop

}

	}
}
//Limit the excerpt by character - http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_excerpt
function the_excerpt_max_charlength($charlength) {

	$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
	$charlength++;

	if ( mb_strlen( $excerpt ) > $charlength ) {
		$subex = mb_substr( $excerpt, 0, $charlength - 5 );
		$exwords = explode( ' ', $subex );
		$excut = - ( mb_strlen( $exwords[ count( $exwords ) - 1 ] ) );
		if ( $excut < 0 ) {
			echo mb_substr( $subex, 0, $excut );
		} else {
			echo $subex;
		}
		echo ' <br><a href="' . get_permalink() . '" class="more-link" title="Read More">Read More</a>';
	} else {
		echo $excerpt;
	}
}

https://gist.github.com/neilgee/144c3c9203c958daadbe

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[Mealtog]

Interesting @neilgee. Can this code be used to overide WP + Genesis default Archive Page? Reason being, SP code does not work with non-Latin languages. Running a client with Chinese text and Character count for Content does not work. (yes, took this up with SP staff and they do not have a fix).

[neilgee]

Yes you can target default archive page as well just change the condition if( is_home() || is_archive() )

For translations you need - Remkus de Vries plugin/

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[Flawed]

Absolutely wonderful!!! Thank you @neilgee 🙂

[Flawed]

Just one question though....how do I get the featured image to show?

Many thanks 🙂

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