Custom Book Reviews Archive Page
I wanted an archive page for my book reviews that showed, for each book, its front cover and an excerpt of the review.

/**
* Template Name: Book Reviews Template
* Description: Used as a page template to show page contents, followed by a loop
* through the Book Review (book-reviews) Category
*/
add_action('genesis_loop', 'zoia_book_reviews_loop');
function zoia_book_reviews_loop() {
$args = array(
'category_name' => 'book-reviews', // category slug
'order_by' => 'post_date',
'order' => 'DESC',
'posts_per_page' => '10',
);
$loop = new WP_Query($args);
if($loop->have_posts()) {
while ($loop->have_posts() ): $loop->the_post();
echo '';
endwhile;
}
wp_reset_postdata();
}
genesis();
?>