[mattspaeth]

I just figured it out. It works great! Here it is in case anyone else wants to do it:

// Add Post featured image as a background image above post title, single posts only 
add_action( 'genesis_after_header', 'custom_before_post_image');
function custom_before_post_image() {
 
  if ( is_page() ) return;
  if ( is_home() ) return;

	if ( $image = genesis_get_image( 'format=url&size=post-image' ) ) {
		printf( '<div class="post-featured-image"><div class="post-photo" style="background-image: url(%s);"></div></div>', $image );
	}
}

[mattspaeth]

Found this great post on creating tweaking the Genesis Featured Posts widget by Peter Coughlin:
http://petercoughlin.com/tweaking-the-genesis-featured-posts-widget/

Using that, I created a duplicate of featured-posts-widget.php in the theme folder, unregistered the old one and registered the new one.

Now I am trying to tweak the code to display the 'Read More' link when no content is being displayed, but having difficulty getting it to work.

This is the section that I believe needs to be modified:

		if ( ! empty( $instance['show_content'] ) ) {

				echo genesis_html5() ? '<div class="entry-content">' : '';

				if ( 'excerpt' == $instance['show_content'] ) { // Show Content 
					the_excerpt();
				}
				elseif ( 'content-limit' == $instance['show_content'] ) { // Show Content Limit
					the_content_limit( (int) $instance['content_limit'], esc_html( $instance['more_text'] ) );
				}
				else { 

					printf ('Show Excerpt');

					global $more;

					$orig_more = $more;
					$more = 0;

					the_content( esc_html( $instance['more_text'] ) );

					$more = $orig_more;

				}

				echo genesis_html5() ? '</div>' : '';

			}

I haven't been able to get any of my modifications to show up. I even commented out this entire section to see if it would break the plugin but it didn't. I was wondering if my theme was actually loading this version of the widget instead of the old one. So then I commented out the entire function that encloses this section, which did break the plugin so I know I have all that taken care of.

This PHP is over my head. I am working through the tutorials at http://www.developphp.com/, but if anyone can offer some advice to help me get this project done, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,
Matt

[mattspaeth]

Brad, what a great find! That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you 🙂

EDIT: Just realized that's your site! Many thanks. Liked on FB.

[mattspaeth]

Thanks, that's an interesting slider. But with all those features I am wondering how bloated it is.

Good call on the redirect. But I am thinking the new portfolio entry would show in the loop for the portfolio content type, no?

[mattspaeth]

Thank you Jen, that worked great.

[mattspaeth]

Edit for clarity: I am looking to pull just the most recent post.

[mattspaeth]

Thanks Jen, I tried both of your suggestions and it's not working. Is there anything that can conflict with these? The only other additions are a remove_action and an add_action which places post-info above the titles on the home page.

remove_action( 'genesis_before_post_content', 'genesis_post_info' );
add_action( 'genesis_before_post_title', 'genesis_post_info' );

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