Removing the Single Featured Post on eleven40 Child Theme-Genesis Framework

The need for removing this single featured post from my blog  running on eleven40 Child Theme + genesis framework arise when I stopped posting frequently  on my blog ‘cos of my tight schedule and resulted to using guest post which any user of my blog can publish without registration.

As a matter of fact many of my guest posters may not have the time editing every of their post and adding “jump break” so as to leave the front page of the blog decent . I decided to remove this single featured post and increase my displayed post from 5 to something better since my blog majorly deals with articles than tutorial .

It took me about 3 hours to figure out how to do this since there isn’t any topic on this on genesis framework support site and i can’t start reading all those long wikis on how to edit the eleven40 Child Theme , so I decided to try it out my self . I started by playing around the style.css , Functions.php and home.php finally I discovered the solution is in home.php which actually controls the look of every wordpress theme .

now here is

How to remove the Single Featured Post from eleven40 Child Theme on Genesis Framework

To remove the single featured post , increase the number of post that displays on eleven40 Child Theme and to add more front-page features on your eleven40 Child Theme .   Just log in to your wordpress site running on eleven40 Child Theme + genesis framework and click on dashboard ==> click on appearance ==> from the drop-down window choose editor ==> from the right bar click on home.php ==>  from the now window you will see what to edit from this code   :::

<?php
 
remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'eleven40_grid_loop_helper' );
/** Add support for Genesis Grid Loop */
function eleven40_grid_loop_helper() {
 
if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {
genesis_grid_loop( array(
'features' => 0,
'feature_image_size' => 0,
'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
'feature_content_limit' => 0,
'grid_image_size'        => 'grid-thumbnail',
'grid_image_class'        => 'alignnone',
'grid_content_limit' => 250,
'more' => __( '[Continue reading]', 'genesis' ),
'posts_per_page' => 12,
) );
} else {
genesis_standard_loop();
}
 
}
 
genesis();

Now from this window you can simply disable the single featured post by changing   ‘features’ => 1, to  ‘features’ => 0, and increase the number of displayed post (posts per page) from 5 to something else by changing ‘posts_per_page’ => 5, to ‘posts_per_page’ => 9, or any number of your choice . You can see that from here you can control both the size & position of the featured images  .

Also you can further customize the eleven40 theme homepage display by entering the post excerpts limit as well as choosing the image alignment for the other post below the single featured one