Customize blog listings

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I am applying some custom settings to the blog listings (category, author, tags, date etc.) and I’m sure there must be an easier way to do it. I have created a file blog-settings.php and have included it respective php files. eg. category.php, author.php etc.
<?php

/*
 * Settings to customise category pages.
 */

// Custom blog settings for the Travel Journal
include_once( ‘blog-settings.php’ );

genesis();
?>
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Darren Burns
Zero Gravity Web Works

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There’s a few plugins which help you do this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-types-order/

Can you please be more specific with what you want to do.

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Thanks for your reply Brad, sorry I haven’t go back to you before now. I am trying to use as few plugins as possible. This is the code I have in blog-settings.php.

/*
 * Settings to customise the blog and archive pages.
 */

// Add Content (excerpt) for the posts in this Page Template
remove_action('genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_content');
add_action('genesis_post_content', 'mmttj_do_post_content');
function mmttj_do_post_content() {
    the_excerpt();
}

// Add Featured Image for the posts in this Page Template
remove_action('genesis_post_content', 'genesis_do_post_image');
add_action('genesis_post_content', 'mmttj_do_post_image', 7);
function mmttj_do_post_image() {
    $img = genesis_get_image( array( 'format' => 'html', 'size' => 'thumbnail', 'attr' => array( 'class' => 'alignleft post-image' ) ) );
    printf( '<a href="%s" title="%s">%s</a>', get_permalink(), the_title_attribute('echo=0'), $img );
}

// Add read more link after excerpt
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'excerpt_read_more_link');
function excerpt_read_more_link($output) {
   global $post;
   return $output . '[<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">Continue Reading&hellip;</a>]';
}

// Modify length of post excerpts
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'mmttj_excerpt_length');
function mmttj_excerpt_length($length) {
   return 100; // pull first 100 words
}

// Set page navigation to numeric
remove_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile', 'genesis_posts_nav' );
add_action( 'genesis_after_endwhile', 'mmttj_posts_nav' );
function mmttj_posts_nav() {
    genesis_numeric_posts_nav();
}

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Darren Burns
Zero Gravity Web Works

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