[Beneaths]

Ended up brain storming a different way to just push the layout to the client and I'd update him when I figured out a cleaner version.

Parent Category issue:
Decided I'd make category specific ID pages so, category-22.php etc in which would have the following code:
(This would allow for only the main category pages to list off the subcategories)

<?php
 
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'sk_show_subcategories_do_loop' );
/**
 * Displays a list of linked child categories on category pages
 */
function sk_show_subcategories_do_loop() {
 
	$cat = get_query_var('cat');
	$category = get_category ($cat);
 
	if ($category->cat_ID) {
		$children = wp_list_categories("orderby=id&depth=0&hide_empty=0&title_li=&child_of=".$category->cat_ID."&echo=0");
		// change depth to 1 if only the top level sub categories should be shown i.e., with children NOT expanded
		if ($children) {
			echo $children;
		}
	}
 
}
 
genesis();

Subcategory issue:
And to solve the subcategories only listing off the posts in the titles only, I used the following code:
(Subcategories would only display post's titles)

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'sk_show_titles_only_category_pages' );
/**
 * Show Linked Titles Only for Posts in Category Pages
 */
function sk_show_titles_only_category_pages( $query ) {
 
	if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_category() ) {
		$query->set( 'orderby', 'title' );
		$query->set( 'order', 'ASC' );
		// $query->set( 'posts_per_page', '2' );
 
		//* Remove the post info
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
 
		//* Remove the post thumbnail
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_image', 8 );
 
		//* Remove the post content
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content' );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_content_nav', 12 );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_content', 'genesis_do_post_permalink', 14 );
 
		//* Remove the post meta
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_open', 5 );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_entry_footer_markup_close', 15 );
		remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );
		
		remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
		add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'sk_custom_loop' );
	}
 
}
 
function sk_custom_loop() {
 
	//* Use old loop hook structure if not supporting HTML5
	if ( ! genesis_html5() ) {
		genesis_legacy_loop();
		return;
	}
 
	if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
 
			do_action( 'genesis_before_entry' );
 
			printf( '<article %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry' ) );
 
				do_action( 'genesis_entry_header' );
 
				do_action( 'genesis_before_entry_content' );
				// printf( '<div %s>', genesis_attr( 'entry-content' ) );
					do_action( 'genesis_entry_content' );
				// echo '</div>'; //* end .entry-content
				do_action( 'genesis_after_entry_content' );
 
				do_action( 'genesis_entry_footer' );
 
			echo '</article>';
 
			do_action( 'genesis_after_entry' );
 
		endwhile; //* end of one post
		do_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile' );
 
	else : //* if no posts exist
		do_action( 'genesis_loop_else' );
	endif; //* end loop
 
}

Next step: Try to use conditional tags to display the codes instead of having to have so many custom category id pages. Essentially, just a cleaner layout.

[Beneaths]

Did you ever make any headway on this? I've been searching the last few days and it doesn't seem I'm alone trying to figure it out. Most articles too are simply outdated

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