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@Genesis Developer - Absolute GENIUS!

Yes, I actually added the functionality to two different custom post types.

One is a portfolio post type that I dragged from my old Minimum installation into Magazine Pro by copying the code in functions.php from Minimum to Magazine Pro. I added genesis-cpt-archives-settings to the supports array and voila!

You can see that one working here (the light grey box at the top): http://rallyways.com/portfolio/

Since my other custom post types are made using a plugin, I looked and the plugin has a field where you can add functionality to the CPT. So I added the little snippet to that one and... perfect!

Here is that one: http://rallyways.com/quickblog/

^^^ That's the Quickblog that I mentioned in one of the earlier posts.

Again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. That worked brilliantly!

I'll be adding it the the blog and other archive pages that I want indexed very soon.

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^^^ Ooooooooh. That makes total sense...!

Ok, I'm going to go look right now.

I'll report back, thanks!

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Hi David,

No, I'm not talking about tags. I actually de-index my tags.

I'm talking about a custom post-type.

Imagine the regular posts post type that comes with WP standard. Now, imagine another post type that works just like posts, only it's a separate post-type.

The reason I made that custom post type last year is because I wanted it to be separate from the main blog. The posts on the Quickblog were supposed to be quick, short and not necessarily SEO-optimized. I also didn't want automatic blog updates to happen everyday with these, so I wanted the RSS from these posts to be separate from the main blog RSS so that I could easily create a separate email list update from them.

Additionally, I felt that if the experiment didn't work out, I would just de-index the quickblog if I felt the posts we too short and would hurt the site's SEO.

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@David Chu

Hmm... Well that got me thinking sir.

See, I have taxonomies set up for 1 custom post-type. That being "specialties" (custom post type). One of the taxonomies is "Mazda MX-5". As you can see here, the Archive Intro Text works with no problems: http://rallyways.com/cars/mazda-mx5/

However, for custom post types like Quickblog, I don't actually use taxonomies. Much like with the regular blog page which simply lists all posts from all categories in the respective post type.

This got me thinking. Should I not be using the custom post type as the basic form a display for that post-type? I don't really need or want categories for that post-type. I'm trying to reduce duplicate content from archive pages.

Tricky huh?

I've always simply directly people to rallyways.com/quickblog much in much the same way as I do rallyways.com/blog.

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@Ren Ventura - What can I tell you? That worked! Thanks.

I changed the class of "%2$s" you had there for "more-link" and it picked up Magazine Pro's CSS style for that on the homepage, which is nice. I'm not sure what "%2$s" does or even means, but the style works with the change.

I also changed the link text from [Keep on reading!] to [ Show me more... ]

You can see it in action here: http://rallyways.com

Thanks again,
Danny

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Hi @Ren Ventura, thanks for that. However, I might have caused a misunderstanding.
If I'm going to be able to add the read more link to custom excerpts, I don't want to stop WP from rendering automatic excerpts from posts that don't have a custom except. I just want to add the read more link to custom excerpts so they match all the posts.

The reason for this is I have many posts. It'll take me a while to go back and add custom excerpts to all of them. While I get that done, I don't want those posts to render blank excerpts in the meantime. But I do want both custom excerpts and automatic excerpts to have the read more link.

Hope that makes sense. :/

Big thanks again,
Danny

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Ah! I just read that and I thought it would be as simple as adding the <!--more--> tag to my excerpts to make the snippet I got from the codex to work... But nope. That didn't do it.

I'm going to have to take more time and try one of your snippets there and see if I can make it work.

The reality is I DON'T NEED the read more button, because I believe the image and the title are enough to have the reader click. The problem is that the posts that DON'T have custom excerpts are still having excerpts automatically pulled from the text and those posts are rendering the READ MORE button where the ones with custom manual excerpts are not. So I end up with some posts with and some posts without. Which looks weird.

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I ended up installing the Sandbox plugin. Worth it I think. Very nice plugin and it works perfectly.

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@Kellyise - Oh sweet. I try that on my development site and see who it works. Hadn't heard of this before. This is my 3rd redesign for this site in 3-4 years, and thumbnail sizes have always been a bit of a problem.

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Oh, so I see these are actually both plugins. I take it there's not simply way of modifying the widget itself right? Without modifying the core? @Marcy

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I'll give that a shot. I had found another way, but it involved pulling a gist form GitHub and creating a whole other plugin. That's a bit beyond my scope. Let's see if these are more manageable. Thanks.

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The image sizes are indeed different. What I did to test is I created a bunch of new test posts on my development site and added new images so that the new theme would resize them accordingly. The results I'm stating are based on that.

But, now that you mention it. That's pretty interesting. How do I regenerate thumbnails on older posts? @jengabbard - I had never heard of such thing being possible. But if so, that would be VERY useful.

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Yes, I tried to replace 'large' with full, medium and thumbnail just to see, but regardless, it always displays the full version.

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Hi @Kellylise - That was helpful thanks. I couldn't get the image size settings to work, but for the moment, I'm happy displaying a slightly shrunken down version of the full image (looks better on retina displays anyway) - but later I might want to figure out how to display a smaller version as it weighs less. I tried a few of the codes there and they all work, but I still don't have much control over the image size displayed.

Anyways, I ended up using this version of the code:

add_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'single_post_featured_image', 15 );

function single_post_featured_image() {
if ( ! is_singular() )
		return;
$img = genesis_get_image( array( 'format' => 'html', 'size' => 'large', 'attr' => array( 'class' => 'post-image' ) ) );
printf( '<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>', get_permalink(), the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ), $img );
	
}

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Hi Andrea, I did that and found no errors, but I have still activate one on of the Jetpack type plugins that have been causing problems and maybe the Mike Challis contact form and run the same tests and see what errors results I get.

Gotta go backup first before I try any of that, but I'll do it and report back.

By the way, I just read your "2 Years of Self-Employment" article and it was GREAT. I've been looking for someone to work with for debugging and to setup new features on the site. If you are good with code, PHP and CSS please let me know. I've been building websites since '03, but I'm a designer, not a coder and there's some things I just don't know how to do.

I have friends that I could hire, but many are all too busy.

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Can you see my reply with the plugins? I set it up as a private post. Not sure why, but I felt like posting it private. Please let me know if you can see it. -Danny

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I just updated one of my sites and all seems well. I wast testing a local host development site (based on my live site) and was shocked with the new update.

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Hi Brad, yeah, I still think there's lots of room for improvement. That's the main reason for the post. I guess I wish Genesis would hone in more on image options and functionality. To give you an example, captions for me, on Genesis, don't work responsively (Minimum Theme).

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Thanks guys. That's definitely one way to do it. I'll look more into it.

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