Using Manual Excerpt if exists with custom grid loop

[preahkumpii]

I'm building my own Genesis child theme. I am wanting to use the manual post excerpt in place of $the_excerpt in the Genesis loop (with $the_excerpt as a fallback). I have found the place in the Genesis theme settings in the admin area of WordPress to choose this. However, when I use my custom grid loop for my home.php and archive.php files, Genesis reverts back to $the_excerpt and does not honor my selection under "Content Archives" to display "Entry Excerpts" in the admin area. Can you please tell me how to apply a filter to show the manual post excerpt if one exists in the post? I also would like to preserve the "Read More" link at the end of the excerpt. I have searched the documentation for more options for the grid loop but have found none.

Again, I am NOT looking for the theme setting to show post excerpts. I know about that already. I'm looking for the way to display the manual excerpts while using a custom grid loop.

Here's my code:

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_grid_loop_helper' );
function child_grid_loop_helper() {
  if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 1,
			'feature_image_size' => 'full',
			'feature_image_class' => 'grid-first-featured',
			'feature_content_limit' => 300,
			'grid_image_size' => 'grid-thumbnail',
			'grid_image_class' => 'grid-featured',
			'grid_content_limit' => 100,
			'more' => __( 'Continue Reading', 'genesis' ),
		) );
	} else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}
}
genesis();

http://preahkumpii.com/pst-test

[Christoph]

Hi,

Bill Erickson has a great tutorial on this:

Customizing the Genesis Grid Loop Content

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