Tag: GenesisWP
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Fluid a Genesis Child Theme
Live Demo [download id=”1″ format=”1″] I’ve fielded several questions about a “fluid width” theme since I’ve started helping at StudioPress. A while back I started an experiment to see how I might make that happen with the various layouts available in Genesis. The process is actually not super complex. There is no need for any…
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Genesis Simple Breadcrumbs
Get Genesis Simple Breadcrumbs One of the great things about the Genesis Framework is how easy it is to edit. Of course what I find easy and what someone else finds easy will vary drastically. For example, I love that I can quickly edit any child theme with some basic code which will work on…
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Genesis Simple Comments
Genesis is a powerful framework that allows developers to quickly edit the theme from just a handful of files. Developers new to the framework would be well served by my Genesis Explained series, but many users have no desire to work with the inner code, but still want to be able to make changes to…
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Two New Genesis WP Child Theme Matrix themes
Quick update to let everyone know there are two new themes in the Genesis Child Theme Matrix. Driskill: a MarketPlace theme by Bill Erickson Go Green: a Free theme by Len Kutchma Don’t forget to subscribe to the Child Theme Matrix feed to be made aware of any new themes.
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shout out
Just a quick note to say a great big thank you to @darrylbueckert. I had about 100 themes I had been able to hunt down across the web, but his Child Theme Developer Directory helped me find a few dozen more themes for my Genesis Child Theme Matrix. Right now I have 126 child themes…
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Introducing the Genesis Child Theme Matrix
I have fielded several questions in the StudioPress support forums where people are looking for a way to compare the various Genesis child themes. Let’s face it, there are a LOT of child themes out there. In fact I think there are way more than anyone ever realized. It is difficult to decide between the…
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Genesis Explained Admin Menu
As noted in the first article in this sub-series, Genesis Explained Admin, this article will be starting the menu.php file. Also noted there I mentioned that this file sets up the Genesis Menu in the WordPress dashboard, allowing other pages to be added to this menu. There are only two functions here, but I’m going…
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Genesis Explained Admin
First, this summer was great, but very busy, hence the long wait before starting this section. If you haven’t been reading along, you should go back to the beginning of the Genesis Explained series, though most of the information you need for understanding the admin side of Genesis will be discussed within this section. Please…
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Genesis Explained Layout Functions
As promised in my previous post in the Genesis Explained series, I’m going to be going through the genesis/lib/functions/layout.php file today. I intentionally went out of order with this because it is helpful to be familiar with the concept of sidebars and the functions Genesis uses regarding them before trying to understand layouts. There are…
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Genesis Explained Widgetize Functions
The last post in the Genesis Explained series was about the options functions and demonstrated some very important functions for retrieving custom fields and theme options from the database. This article is all about the genesis/lib/functions/widgetize.php file. There is really only one function you will be using in the theme, but there is some other…