Amanda asks,
I'm wanting to use the Genesis Grid Loop plugin only for specific category pages. Also, I need those pages to be in excerpt style, showing only about 250 words before a 'read more' button. How would I go about doing this? Are there any tutorials floating around somewhere? I'm comfortable with php if anyone has a better idea than using Genesis grid.
Genesis Grid is a fantastic plugin for Genesis by Bill Erickson for displaying features (wide posts) and teasers (posts appearing in columns) in various sections of a WordPress site.
For the purpose of this tutorial I am going to assume that Grid Location is disabled on all the possible places in the plugin's settings page.
Add the following in child theme's functions.php to
a) let this plugin enable the grid loop
b) force excerpts regardless of theme's content archive settings
c) modify the length of post excerpts from the default 55 to 250
d) replace the ellipsis (...) with a 'read more' link
on a specific category archive page (in this example, having a slug of category-1):
