Static page and blog roll needs tweaking

[nate]

Hi there

I have successfully managed to get my front page to be have static content followed by a blogroll thanks to the help of genwrock and the page template here http://genesisdeveloper.me/full-width-page-content-with-blog-posts/

It's almost there but just want a couple of tweaks to make the formatting of the blog excerpts to look cleaner.

Here is my front page http://snowboardingprofiles.com/ and here is how I'd prefer those blog excerpts to look (scroll down until you get to the excerpts) http://snowboardingprofiles.com/blog

Or at least have the excerpts on the front page showing the titles of the posts.

Not sure why they look different as I thought that the page template is just calling the same blogroll that is being called by the theme on the "your latest posts" blogroll. I don't understand the code well enough.

Not sure if this is an easy fix or not but any help/advice very much appreciated (even if it's just to say whether this should be an easy fix or not).

Sincerely,
Nathan

http://snowboardingprofiles.com/

[nate]

Below is the home.php in my theme (Eleven40 Theme). I assume that this is what instructs the theme's blogroll when home page is set to “Your Latest Posts” in Settings>>Reading? How this looks is here http://snowboardingprofiles.com/blog for my site.

<?php

//* Add Genesis grid loop
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'eleven40_grid_loop_helper' );
function eleven40_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features'              => 1,
			'feature_image_size'    => 0,
			'feature_image_class'   => 'alignleft post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size'       => 'grid-featured',
			'grid_image_class'      => 'grid-featured',
			'grid_content_limit'    => 250,
			'more'                  => __( '[Continue reading]', 'eleven40' ),
		) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

//* Run the Genesis loop
genesis();

In order to get the posts in the new page template (http://genesisdeveloper.me/full-width-page-content-with-blog-posts/) to look like the ones in the grid on http://snowboardingprofiles.com/blog I have experimented with inserting some of the above code into the custom page template. However, I am not good with code and it was a bit haphazard to say the least! I got it to do some different things but not things that I was trying to achieve.

If anyone knows how I can get the blog posts to show in the grids like they do on http://snowboardingprofiles.com/blog on my home page here http://snowboardingprofiles.com/ using http://genesisdeveloper.me/full-width-page-content-with-blog-posts/ that would be super awesome!

Sincerely,
Nate

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