Entry Content – Post Content

As part of the entry content, Genesis has a default registered callback for building the content based upon various settings (who you have it configured) and which web page is being displayed. The function is genesis_do_post_content, which is found in genesis/lib/structure/post.php. Looking at the function, you’ll see that there are four (4) different conditionals to determine what content is displayed:

• the web page is a single piece of content, i.e. is_singular() is true
• “excerpts” are set for the archive (because it’s configured that way in Genesis > Theme Settings)
• the archive content is being limited (because it’s configured that way in Genesis > Theme Settings)
• or the default of rendering via the_content()

Let’s walk through the code to help you understand it. You’ll look in WordPress Core too at the function the_content() and see how you can filter the content. Also you’ll learn the difference between the WordPress Core functions which begin with the_ and get_the_.