Set up a blogroll with custom post types

[David Borrink]

I need a little help. I've set up a custom post type of "project" on my site, and I want to duplicate the blog roll from my site in order to just show this custom post type as the listings. This is my first attempt at creating a page template using Genesis, after doing this the normal WP way for years.

I set up a page template called "page_product.php" and below is the code for that template. Source of that code is here. It's a four year old post, so I question if it's up-to-date now. Actually, my first couple pages of Bing search results have a lot of sites with info that is three or four years old. So I'm now questioning if I'm getting good info at all.

I created two test "project" posts with featured images and text. I thought I would get this result: the page title, the page content, then I'd get a blog roll of the "project" posts below it. But I get an unformatted title for the page, no content, then immediately the two posts with only the featured image, meta, and short content, and the read more button.

<?php
/**
 * Template Name: Project Archives
 * Description: Used as a page template to show page contents, followed by a loop through a CPT archive  
 */

// Do the Custom Loop
remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'ds_custom_loop' );

function ds_custom_loop() {

echo '<h1 class="entry-title">' . get_the_title() . '</h1>';
the_content();
//WP Query Start
$per_page = 12;
$project_args = array(
'post_type' => 'project',
'posts_per_page' => $per_page,
'paged' => get_query_var( 'paged' )
);
$projects = genesis_custom_loop( $project_args );
}
 
genesis();

I have the Genesis Grid Loop plug-in installed, and I've set it for the main blog roll to have two columns of posts. In the dashboard I went to the Grid Loop settings and made sure that "project archives" was ticked so that the Grid Loop would apply to that. But I'm getting single column results.

I assumed this was going to be a function that would would just create a duplicate two column grid on the "Portfolio" page that matched the look of the "Blog" page. See those links for reference.

So I'm asking for a few minutes of someone's time to help me know if I'm in the right direction or if I'm way off here. I want to learn this, but there must be something I'm not getting here. Thanks.

http://davidandsallie.com/portfolio/

[Victor Font]

The WordPress query executes before the Genesis Loop. The loop simply displays the results of the query. If you want to display a specific post_type, you have to use WordPress filters. This should work if you apply it to your page_template. If not, you have to add it to functions.php and place a conditional wrapper around the query->set so it only executes for the project page template.

function vmf_query_filter($query) {
	$query->set( 'post_type', array('project') );
	return $query;
};
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'vmf_query_filter');

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Victor
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