how to create a page templat that act as directory?

[badpenguin]

Originally Posted by jjaycallejas

How about something like this? http://www.briangardner.com/custom-archives-page/

This will not work in my case because i need to hack the wp_query
before the loop, i handle the archive loop in functions.php i don't need to recreate
it in this template.

Also a plugin apply_filter() call it in the "before wrap" functions.

So its not something i can do with the custom grid loop.