Various issues with Balance theme

[webmonkey]

It's happened a few times with StudioPress themes, that there's apparent collisions going on between home.php, the Genesis Theme Settings etc.

For whatever reason, I can't see "Continue Reading" appearing in Balance anywhere after the Excerpts. There appears to be a reference to it in functions.php, but it doesn't show up on the site.

Changing the number of posts per page in both the theme functions and homepage makes no difference. I want 4, it says 4 everywhere, I get 5. Here's the code:

functions.php reference:

/** Customize 'Read More' text */
add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'balance_read_more_link' );
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'balance_read_more_link' );
function balance_read_more_link() {
	return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="nofollow">' . __( 'Continue Reading' ) . '</a>';
} 

home.php reference:

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_grid_loop_helper' );
/** Add support for Genesis Grid Loop **/
function child_grid_loop_helper() {

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
	
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 0,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size' => 'grid',
			'grid_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
			'grid_content_limit' => 0,
			'more' => __( 'Continue reading...', 'genesis' ),
			'posts_per_page' => 4,
		) );

	}

	else {
		genesis_standard_loop();
	}

}

genesis();

[Brad Dalton]

You will need to choose the content limit rather than excerpts under Content Archives in the Genesis > Theme Settings.

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[webmonkey]

Balance respects WordPress Excerpts. I won't use the More tag as that ends up in misery if you start articles with an image. It's a horrible feature. Is there a way to add Continue Reading text to Excerpts?

I am trying to reduce the number of articles visible on the homepage from 5 to 4. That wasn't addressed in this response.

Are you with StudioPress? They don't seem to monitor these forums at all.

[AnitaC]

The forum is run by volunteers. This is not official support so no they don't monitor the forum often. Please provide a link to your website so we can take a look. Thank you.

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[webmonkey]

Thanks.

Here's the staging site:
http://turbo20.qnop.net/~changing/

There are 5 articles on homepage, I just want 4.

At the end of Excerpts, I want a "Continue Reading" link.

[AnitaC]

Open up the home.php file and look for this:

	if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
	
		genesis_grid_loop( array(
			'features' => 1,
			'feature_image_size' => 0,
			'feature_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
			'feature_content_limit' => 0,
			'grid_image_size' => 'grid',
			'grid_image_class' => 'align none post-image',
			'grid_content_limit' => 0,
			'more' => __( 'Continue reading...', 'genesis' ),
			'posts_per_page' => 5,
		) );

You can change both in that code and save it.

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[AnitaC]

Excerpts don't have "Continue Reading" - but where it says "content limit" you can change 0 to say 250 and it will show up for you.

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[webmonkey]

That code you suggested I look at is the code I posted originally. Changing it to 4 from 5 made no difference. This is how this post began.

I get that Excerpts don't have "Continue Reading". I don't want to do the content limit thing, preferring the control of Excerpts. I just need a link/image link at the end of Excerpts. That's got to be doable.

[AnitaC]

Sorry, for some reason I am not getting notified of others who are commenting on here. I am just clicking the latest permalink in the email to respond here. The only other solution I can offer for the number of posts is to go to Genesis > Settings, scroll down to Archive Settings and check that. If that is set up correctly, then go to Settings > Reading and change that number in there.

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[webmonkey]

Yes, thank you. Changing the Readings settings worked. Not sure why a custom home page wouldn't override that though. 🙁

I found this code for adding a Read More link to Excerpts, but it's not functioning sadly:

add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'child_read_more_link' );
add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'child_read_more_link' );
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'child_read_more_link' );
/**
 * Custom Read More link.
 *
 * @author Greg Rickaby
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
function child_read_more_link() {
	return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading...</a>';
}

There has to be a way to hook a permalink at the end of the Excerpt.

[webmonkey]

Here's the solution for the adding a more link to manual Excerpts:

Customising the_excerpt

Thanks folks.

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