Plug-in to Display 2 Rows of Blog Posts on Home Page in widget section

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  • April 30, 2013 at 6:25 pm #4459
    brandnutz
    Customer

      Hi there. So excited we got our site live today (still very much a WIP but it’s live). Shocked how fast it went thanks to your GREAT work!!

      Hoping you can point me to a solution to best display a couple rows of blog posts on the home page. I would like it to appear in one of the widget sections toward the bottom. I want to include the image and title only. Don’t need the content or excerpt.

      I tried using the Genesis Featured Posts plug-in but it is not lining up correct. You can see it here: http://www.themarketingnutz.com When I changed it to total of 6 posts to display they were somewhat smooched together & didn’t look good at all. Also, not sure why it is pushing so far to the left. Would be great if at minimum we can nicely fit 4 posts across in one row, though we prefer two rows.

      I’d like to get the posts to show 3-4 across in 2 rows. I have worked with the Genesis grid loop before but would prefer not to go that route unless we have to. Hoping there is a more simple way to simply bring in the posts.

      Thanks again for your excellent work on this theme. So excited for where we can take it! Going to inspire us to clean up our content once & for all!

      April 30, 2013 at 11:15 pm #4467
      Wes
      Moderator

        The featured posts widget will be the easiest option. You can have 4 posts on a row, you’ll just need to adjust your css. To do this, look around line 1360 for this – 

        #home-feature-bg-alt .featuredpage .page,
#home-feature-bg-alt .featuredpost .post {
    float: left;
    margin: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding: 0 0 5px;
    width: 300px;
}

        And adjust it to look like this – 

        #home-feature-bg-alt .featuredpage .page,
#home-feature-bg-alt .featuredpost .post {
    float: left;
    margin: 0;
    overflow: hidden;
    padding: 0 10px 0 5px;
    width: 220px;
}

        …you can adjust it more if you need to.

        May 4, 2013 at 9:22 pm #4551
        brandnutz
        Customer

          Thank you so much Wes. This worked like a charm. I changed the padding to 20px across the board to give it a bit more spacing & now have a nice 8 blog posts showing.

          Thanks & enjoy the rest of your wknd!

          May 5, 2013 at 3:36 pm #4559
          Wes
          Moderator

            You’re Welcome

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