Custom post types can be rather confusing, daunting, intimidating, and frankly difficult. However, with Genesis, custom post types are easy as registering your post type, creating a template, and adding a page that uses the template. While I will assume that you know how to register your custom post type, if you don't download Brad William's/WebDevStudios' Custom Post Type UI Plugin.
To create your page template, you can simply download it here ([download id="5"]), or follow these instructions. In your favorite text editor, create a new document. Then add the following code:
[php]<?php
/*
*Template Name: Custom Post Type Template
*/
remove_action('genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop');
add_action('genesis_loop', 'custom_do_loop');
function custom_do_loop() {
global $paged;
$args = array('post_type' => 'my_post_type');
//$args = array('post_type' => 'books');
genesis_custom_loop( $args );
}
genesis();
?>[/php]
Template Name: Custom Post Type Template identifies it as a page template, so when you click Pages > Add New, your new template will appear in the right hand side for Page Templates as whatever you named it. To customize this template, change my_post_type to whatever you named your post type, which should be all lower case with no spaces. The default is 'post', which does not pick up your custom post type.