Feature Request: Status Post Format & Block

Would like to request a Status post format be added as well as a block to display the status posts.

Block: The block would resemble Block 8 but without a featured image and with double the excerpt length (250 chars would work). Title and excerpt would be needed.

Format: Making a whole post with the featured image is just too much for a lot of updates in a news oriented site. The status format would need to strip out images and all shortcodes reducing it to a basic message similar to what you can get on Twitter.

That works perfectly. Added the custom module 5 to the child theme and removed the date, author, comments/views lines as well and it looks great. Thanks.

And what a difference a couple of days away makes…

Module 5 is apparently used by a lot of the blocks as any showing the medium sized thumbnail on the home page now show no featured image – affecting far more than the status posts originally intended for this behavior.

Additionally, the changes to the excerpts from words to characters, though set at 250, shortens every slider title to about 10 characters. Those titles aren’t long enough or wide enough to fill the space they have on a default setup.

Now, how do I get the desired effect with screwing over the entire home page and without directly editing block 8 forcing me to replicate the changes with each new version released? I see child themes cannot replace blocks, correct?

I could do this another way but I need to know what modules blocks 1 and 2 use. I currently blocks 1, 2 and 8 on my home page. Check my development site where I’m working on this if you need to; http://wp.me/P4vfUC-2so.