genesis

Syntax

genesis();

Genesis documentation

Description

This construct launches the Genesis framework. Its intent is to call each component that builds the specific WordPress web page structure for the browser. It calls the header, main HTML markup structure, content areas, sidebars, and the footer. It’s your launching point to build the web page.

This function is found at the bottom of each template file, such as the index, page, single, archive, etc. Within the Genesis file structure, many times that is the only line of code within a file. Everything else is handled within the framework’s library modules, i.e. found in lib folder.

Parameters

This function does not accept any parameters.

Return Values

It does not return anything.

Header – Show It in ActionBasic

The first line within the function is get_header. Let’s take a look at what this one function does and all of the HTML that it builds.

Main Content – Show It in ActionBasic

Let’s walk through how the main content is built, just after the <div class="site_inner"> HTML element tag. In this portion of the web page, Genesis, working with WordPress, the plugins, and child theme, is building up the <main class="content"> area (for HTML5) including the post title, post info, entry content, post meta, pagination, and more.

Sidebar – Show It in ActionBasic

After the main content, i.e. the WordPress Loop, is rendered, Genesis fires the event genesis_after_content. Within the framework, it has a callback registered to that event, i.e. in file lib/structure/layout.php, to render (send out to the browser) the sidebar, if one is configured. In this video, let’s show you the code and discuss it.

After Content & Footer – Show It in ActionBasic

After the content and sidebar are rendered out to the browser, next genesis() fires the genesis_after_content_sidebar_wrap event, calling all of the callbacks which were pre-registered to it, i.e. using add_action. Then it calls the WordPress function get_footer. Let’s walk through and discuss this code in the context of what is rendered out into the HTML.