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July Meetup

James Laws · Jun 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment

When: July 7th 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Where: Chattanooga Public Library (4th Floor Downtown)
What: The Genesis Theme Framework (Robin Cornett, Beau Moffatt, & James Laws)
Link to Slides: Genesis Framework on Steroids


MeetUp Notes:

A bit about the presenters:
James Laws works for the WP Ninjas.
Beau works for Open Sky Web Studio
Robbin is a self-employed web developer.

  • What is Genesis?
    • Genesis is a theme framework, this means it does all the hard work for you.
  • Why should I use Genesis?
    • It is extremely flexible
    • it has SEO built in
    • Great security
    • Beautiful mobile responsive designs.
  • How do I use Genesis?
    • You install the framework as your parent theme. then choose a child theme you would like to use.
    • You can make tweaks to the child themes on the back-end of your WordPress site
    • Genesis child theme’s can be customized with code.
  • You can use actions, hooks and filters to edit items in your site.
    • A hook is a piece of code that extends functionality of genesis or wordpress.
    • Actions are triggered by a specific events that take place in WordPress
    • Filters are functions that WordPress passes data through at certain points in execution.
  • Code Snippets
    • Code snippets allow you to add small bits of code that add functionality.
    • They can be found here: http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/
  • There are two ways you can build on to genesis
    • You can build a child theme from scratch.
      • Pros:
        • Totally unique and custom to you or your users needs
        • You can make a boilerplate theme to be used on other projects
      • Con
        • steeper learning curve and dev time
    • You can also Modify an existing child theme
      • Pros:
        • Main layout is in place. You just tweak CSS and preferences.
      • Con:
        • When doing many sites, make sure they all don’t start looking the same.
  • Questions
    • If a theme hasn’t been updated in a while is it safe to use those child themes?
      • You should be fine. The child theme’s aren’t actually updated since the parent theme is a framework the child theme won’t actually need to be updated.
    • Do you have to know to code to work with the frameworks?
      • It really depends on what you want to do. With a bit of research you can do some basic changes. If you want to completely change the functionality of the theme.

 

 

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