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Our WordPress Themes include:
- Theme Updates and Future Themes
- Professionally Search Engine Optimized
- Easy to Use Theme Options Pages
- Fully Widgeted Sidebars
- PSD Files for Image Customization
- Support and Detailed Theme Tutorials
- Auto-sized Thumbnail Management
- Developed for Localization
- Ready for Advertising and Monetization
A Community of Theme Users and Moderators
StudioPress themes come with free access to their support forum is full of experienced people who have used and customized their themes. StuidPress staff, moderators and members are available to help you out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Check out our incredibly active support forum.
Powered by the Genesis Framework
The Genesis Theme Framework is built on a simple, vanilla blog-type parent theme, and can be extended with the use of child themes. If you are asking yourself why you should consider using the Genesis Framework, continue reading to learn the advantages of our Framework and what its features are.
Automatic Theme Updates
The main advantage of the Genesis Framework is the ability to provide an easy upgrade route when Genesis evolves and/or is updated to keep up with changes to WordPress. With traditional themes this upgrade path is not easy to maintain – you have to backup and redo all your own customizations each time the developer releases an upgrade.
This feature makes the Genesis Theme Framework the first commercially developed theme to include automatic updates. Similar to the way that WordPress itself (and plugins) are handled, any time there is an update to the Genesis, you’ll be notified in your dashboard and can update with one simple click. There is also an option to be notified via email address when an update occurs.
Search Engine Optimized
Google loves WordPress and most blogs do StudioPressll in the search engines, but our WordPress themes are fully search engine optimized, making them that much better. The Genesis Theme Framework has an SEO Settings page, as well as inline SEO Inline Options, which give even more control of varying elements of search engine optimization.
While this feature of Genesis is sufficient for any website, you can opt to use the All in One SEO plugin or the Headspace plugin, which can give you additional control over certain SEO elements. If either of these two plugins are being used, the Genesis SEO is disabled.
Theme Settings
The Genesis Framework has many settings that let you fine-tune the way your site looks. Everything from choosing betStudioPressen dynamic text or a logo image for your header to site-wide comment control to controlling archive content display by excerpt or full text. Go ahead and take a look at the Theme Settings.
Custom-Built Widgets
This is the list of the available Genesis Widgets:
- My Tweets – displays an unordered list of your latest Tweets
- User Profile – displays the Gravatar of a user, as StudioPressll as their bio and a link to an about page
- eNews & Updates – displays an opt-in box for users to receive your posts by email
- Featured Posts – displays post excerpts and a thumbnail to be used in a featured sectio
- Featured Page – displays page excerpts and a thumbnail to be used in a featured section
Because the Genesis Framework has been widgetized beyond just the sidebar, you can use any of these Genesis widgets and/or any of the WordPress widgets in any widgetized area of the Theme. This makes it even easier to achieve a unique design for your site.
Many Choices of Layout Options
The Genesis Theme Framework features 6 default layout options:
- content/sidebar
- sidebar/content
- content/sidebar/sidebar
- sidebar/content/sidebar
- sidebar/sidebar/content
- full width content {no sidebar}
These are easily selected on the Theme’s Options page and gives you the flexibility with all themes (Genesis parent and any child themes) to choose whichever layout you want as the default.
Another great feature is that you can “mix and match”, meaning that you can choose, via a radio-button, any of the 6 layouts for each one of your individual pages or posts. No longer are you limited to one layout for your entire site!
The Use of Child Themes
A child theme is an extension of a theme framework and is comprised of typical theme elements – with Genesis, it includes a screenshot, theme files, a stylesheet, a functions file, and an images folder. These elements are grouped together in what’s known as a child theme folder and can be activated like any other WordPress theme.
The easiest way to explain the relationship between a parent and child theme, at least in Genesis’ case, is to relate it to a cell phone. The Genesis parent theme is the cell phone and the child is the case you hold it in. You’ll always use the same phone, but if you want to change the way it looks on the outside, you put a cover on it to make it look different.
The same holds true with a child theme – as that is what “decorates” the way your site looks. So if you get tired of the way your site looks today, you can simply get another Genesis child theme, activate it and have a whole new look.
Seamless Upgrading
Using a child theme also eliminates any concern of losing customizations that you have made whenever there is a theme update. In a Parent/Child schema, what is actually happening is that a child theme looks in its own directory for the needed template, file, or stylesheet and if not found there, it uses the ones from the parent theme directory.
So any customizations you make should be made to the child theme. Lets say that you want to make some unique customization to the sidebar, {beyond what can be done with hooks & widgets}. You simply make a copy of the sidebar template from the Genesis Framework (parent theme) and paste it into your child theme directory and make the desired changes to it. Now whenever Genesis is updated, you will never lose that customization.
Customizations via Hooks
A Hook is a piece of code written into a theme, that allows you to attach additional content to the theme itself. Put simply, it provides the ability to add functionality by way of inserting (or hooking) code.
The Genesis Framework has over 40 locations, throughout its code structure, where you can do this.
WordPress 2.9 and Post Thumbnails
StudioPress developed the Genesis Theme Framework to utilize the default post thumbnail functionality of WordPress 2.9. For a number of reasons, StudioPress have abandoned the use of Tim Thumb for displaying thumbnails, and are in a position to easily update as WordPress works towards dynamic resizing of images.
In the meantime, StudioPress have the built-in ability to display custom thumbnail image sizing – you can read more about WordPress 2.9 thumbnails.
BuddyPress Compatibility
StudioPress staff had been asked many times if our themes are compatible with BuddyPress and until now – their response had to say no. StudioPress’re now very happy to say that the Genesis Theme Framework is compatible with BuddyPress through an Add-On developed by WPMU/BuddyPress gurus Ron and Andrea Rennick, who have extensive knowledge of WordPress, WPMU/Network capabilities and BuddyPress. You can find the Add-On over at Premium BP Themes.
Genesis Code Security
The internet can be like the wild, wild, StudioPress and security should be a prime concern of any website owner. To ensure the utmost security for our Members, StudioPress hired Mark Jaquith, lead developer of WordPress, to run a security audit on the Genesis Theme Framework. StudioPress take our products and your security very seriously and want you to have full confidence that the Genesis Theme Framework is as secure as possible. What better way to ensure this, than to hire the best of the best – someone who knows WordPress code and security more intimately than anybody else.