Reply To: Adding Portfolio Inside Custom Post

I love how Ive walked myself through this haha, trouble is im looking at the epik code but using a totally different aproach

anyhow I wrapped the portfolio loop like this

// Add custom loop
function portfolio_loop() {
	echo '<div class="content"><div class="wrap">';
    $paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
    
    $include = genesis_get_option( 'epik_portfolio_cat' );
    $exclude = genesis_get_option( 'epik_portfolio_cat_exclude' ) ? explode(',', str_replace(' ', '', genesis_get_option( 'epik_portfolio_cat_exclude' ))) : '';
        
    $cf = genesis_get_custom_field( 'query_args' ); // Easter Egg
    $args = array( 'cat' => $include, 'category__not_in' => $exclude, 'showposts' => genesis_get_option( 'epik_portfolio_cat_num' ), 'paged' => $paged);
    $query_args = wp_parse_args($cf, $args);
    
    genesis_custom_loop( $query_args );
}
	echo '</div></div>';

now all is happy in the world!