Show Latest Posts on front-page.php

[Chris]

Hi,

I am trying to add a section with my latest posts to my front-page.php template and I'm having an issue. Instead of showing my latest posts it is instead displaying the page I have set as home in Settings>Reading:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t67sp3qbkieamti/Screenshot%202014-08-15%2015.39.01.png

The code I'm using to add the latest posts is here:

//* Genesis grid loop
function minimum_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
				'features'              => 0,
				'feature_image_size'    => 0,
				'feature_content_limit' => 0,
				'grid_image_size'       => 0,
				'grid_content_limit'    => 250,
				'more'                  => __( '[Read more]', 'minimum' ),
			) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}
}

I'm not using the page_blog.php template and I'm using the reading setting to define the home page and the blog page. Everything looks great except the latest posts not showing correctly in the front_page.php template.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help!

-Chris

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Chris Reed | [email protected] | http://www.chrisreedtech.com

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t67sp3qbkieamti/Screenshot%202014-08-15%2015.39.01.png

[Genesis Developer]

Try this way

remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
add_action('genesis_loop', 'minimum_grid_loop_helper');
//* Genesis grid loop
function minimum_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
				'features'              => 0,
				'feature_image_size'    => 0,
				'feature_content_limit' => 0,
				'grid_image_size'       => 0,
				'grid_content_limit'    => 250,
				'more'                  => __( '[Read more]', 'minimum' ),
			) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}
}

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[Chris]

Thanks, but that didn't work either. I should have posted this function I have above in the front-page.php:

//* Add widget support for homepage if widgets are being used
add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'minimum_front_page_genesis_meta' );
function minimum_front_page_genesis_meta() {

	if ( is_front_page() ) {

		//* Remove entry meta in entry footer and Genesis loop
		remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );

		//* Add Genesis grid loop
		add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'minimum_grid_loop_helper' );

		//* Remove entry footer functions
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_open', 5 );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_close', 15 );

		//* Force full width content layout
		add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );

	}

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[Genesis Developer]

Remove these lines.

//* Add widget support for homepage if widgets are being used
add_action( ‘genesis_meta’, ‘minimum_front_page_genesis_meta’ );
function minimum_front_page_genesis_meta() {

if ( is_front_page() ) {

}

Do this simple way. Just use this code in your file

//* Force full width content layout
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_full_width_content' );
//* Remove entry meta in entry footer and Genesis loop
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );

//* Add Genesis grid loop
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'minimum_grid_loop_helper' );

//* Remove entry footer functions
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_open', 5 );
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );
remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_close', 15 );

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[Chris]

I don't think thats the problem. The function is getting called correctly, it is just returning the home page name instead of the posts for some reason.

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Chris Reed | [email protected] | http://www.chrisreedtech.com

[Genesis Developer]

Hmmm...remove the home page name from Settings -> Reading section . You don't need this. because you're using front-page.php file.

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[Chris]

Thanks. I tried that and with no page set it shows the latest blog posts instead of the front-page.php template. Which is weird because I thought the template hierarchy always looked for front-page.php first.

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