Multiple loops in Genesis

Question

So I wanted to create two loops on my homepage. One that would display the page's own content, and then a grid loop straight beneath it for fetching the two latest posts from the 'news' category. I couldn't really find a way to do it so I hacked around until I got it working, but I'm not sure this is the right way to be doing things, can anyone tell me what improvements I can/should make to this code?

Here's a screenshot of what I have: http://s18.postimg.org/knrq6sert/2013_11_13_22_55_58.png

Theme: Metro Template: page-home.php

//* Add support for Genesis Grid Loop
//remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
add_action( 'genesis_loop', 'child_grid_loop_helper' );

function child_grid_loop_helper() {
    if ( function_exists( 'genesis_grid_loop' ) ) {

        global $post;

    // arguments, adjust as needed
    $args = array(
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'posts_per_page' => 2,
        'post_status'    => 'publish',
        'paged'          => get_query_var( 'paged' )
    );

    /*
    Overwrite $wp_query with our new query.
    The only reason we're doing this is so the pagination functions work,
    since they use $wp_query. If pagination wasn't an issue,
    use: https://gist.github.com/3218106
    */
    global $wp_query;
    $wp_query = new WP_Query( $args );
        genesis_grid_loop( array(
            'features' => 0,
            'feature_image_size' => 0,
            'feature_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
            'feature_content_limit' => 0,
            'grid_image_size' => 0,
            'grid_image_class' => 'alignleft post-image',
            'grid_content_limit' => 100,
            'more' => __( '[Continue reading...]', 'genesis' ),
        ) );
    }
}

//* Remove the post meta function for front page only
remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );

genesis();`

Two things I have not figured out yet.

1. How to change the headings of the grid loop from <h2> to <h3>. I had to style the <h2> on that screenshot so that they would be 1.5 rem rather than the default 3 rem. But ideally they would be <h3>.

2. How to remove the post author from those two posts in the grid loop.

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

I think both issues can be solved by altering what's happening inside the loop. The code you've posted are the arguments that are used for the query. There is a while loop which then goes through the results of the query and displays them. Try to find while ($wp_query->have_posts()): $wp_query->the_post();. Between this and endwhile; the results are displayed. There you'll find echo get_the_author(). If you remove that, the author won't be displayed. You can also alter the styling of the headers there.