Tips and guides to using the WordPress Genesis theme framework and customizing it.
In an earlier post, I explained how to dd new widget areas to Genesis child themes. Generally speaking, those widget areas show in standard page and post templates and widget sidebars. Those widgets will not show in the homepage. Today’s post will show you how to add new widgets to the homepage template or any … Read more
Just a few lines of code in a child theme’s functions.php file is all you need to add a new widget area anywhere within your Genesis powered WordPress site. Genesis uses ‘hooks’ to make it easy to latch code into the theme. A visual guide to Genesis hooks is available here. To add a new … Read more
Adding additional navigation menus to Genesis themes is easy. This method creates custom navigation menus that you can customize as you would any other WordPress custom menu by visiting Appearance > Menus. We use a two-step method: Create a custom nav file Register the custom nav file in your child theme’s functions.php file By repeating … Read more
Genesis by StudioPress is the most stylish, simplest to use and easiest to customize theme framework I have ever seen. But try to centre the horizontal navbars and you’re in for a lot of fun. That is, at least, until now. I spent months working out how to center Genesis menus. Different devices like mobile … Read more
Genesis is the most stylish WordPress theme framework I know. Version 1.8.0 of this versatile theme has been released. Lifted straight from the horses mouth, it comes with a few changes: Genesis version 1.8.0 continues in the long tradition of being extremely flexible AND developer friendly. This latest version comes with a fresh new front-end … Read more