Genesis Theming Framework

Build a Custom Genesis Child Theme - Genesis Theme Development A-Z

Want to build custom Genesis themes professionally? Then this is the series for you. You and Tonya will dive deep into the entire process of building a real world, fully-functional, custom Genesis child theme from scratch. You'll learn deeply about the framework, WordPress, PHP, HTML, CSS, and more as you build this theme.

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Lab: WordPress Custom Taxonomy Basics

In this episode, you and I are going to explore the Genesis framework. You'll learn about the [post_terms] shortcode available to you in Genesis and how to customize its user-defined attributes to add the taxonomy and text before the labels. You'll learn about the "genesis_post_meta" filter event too, as you will register a callback and then take a deep dive into its processing.

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Remove the Genesis Site Footer on Home Page

Let's remove the default Genesis site footer on the posts' page, i.e. the home page. In this hands-on lab, you will walk through four (4) different implementations, each of which removes the site footer. You'll discover the pros and cons of each of these approaches. From this exercise, you'll be able to select the best approach for your specific needs.

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Reordering Hook Not Working on the First Post - Problem Solving Lab

In this Problem Solving lab, your website is broken, as the first post in the loop is exhibiting unexpected behavior. You want to reposition the post info (i.e. date and author's name) above the title. It works on all of the posts except the first one. Why? In this active, hands-on lab, you and I will walk through how to find the root cause, why it's happening, and then how to resolve it.

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Adding and Removing Structural Wraps in Genesis

In the Genesis framework, structural wraps give you further styling control and containment of your content, as it wraps your content in a <div class="wrap">. You are able to specify where you want these structural wraps by configuring it within your child theme. In this lab, you will be adding and removing structural wraps by configuring the context using add_theme_support().

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Customizing the Read More Link in Genesis

The Genesis framework defaults to a standard read more link which looks like [Read more...]. But what if you want to read Continue reading, Learn more, or whatever? What if you want it to be on a separate line in its own paragraph? What if you want it to look like a button instead of just a standard link? Well, then this lab is for you. In this lab, you will customize your Genesis child theme, any child theme, to fit your project's needs. Yes, you will be doing all of these customization features.

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Customizing the Genesis Site Header

Let's put what you learned in Part 3 into action. In this lab, you build multiple custom site header layouts and a utility bar in order to see how easy it is to create child themes with the Genesis framework.

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Genesis Version - Ensure Your Latest Changes Go Out to the Browser

Have you ever had the problem where you made a change, pushed it to your client's server, and then they say they can't see the changes? So you tell them to clear their browser's cache and that solves the problem. In this lab, you will learn how to make sure your changes are sent out to the browser using the constant Genesis provides for you.

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Adding Google Fonts to Your WordPress Website

Adding Google Fonts into your WordPress website is a two-step process, which requires you to add CSS and PHP to your theme or plugin. Many people forget to do one of the steps. In this hands-on lab, you will write the code while I walk you through it step-by-step.

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Let's Build a Blog Intro Custom Plugin

Out-of-the-box WordPress does not provide a way to introduce the Posts Page (Blog), as the editor is turned off and there is no automatic rendering of the content before the posts. In this lab, you will build a Blog Intro real-world, custom plugin which provides an introduction or welcome feature for your clients. As you build this plugin, you are learning about fetching content from the database, sanitizing, the Genesis framework, views, and more.

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