WordPress: Customizing Themes with Genesis

Explore the structure and components that make up the Genesis Framework, and discover how to customize child themes.

Introduction

• Customize Genesis child themes
• What you should know
• Working with provided code snippets

1. Setting the Stage for Customizations

• Set up a development environment
• Select a child theme to customize

2. Technical Overview of Genesis and WordPress

• The core of Genesis Framework
• Template files in Genesis Framework
• The child theme template structure
• The WordPress loop
• The Genesis loop
• Action hooks and filters in WordPress
• Action hooks and filters in Genesis
• Challenge
• Solution

3. Customizing Themes

• Tips for customizing themes
• Editing the style sheet
• Working with functions.php
• Conditional statements
• Modify Comments title
• Changing Google fonts
• Challenge
• Solution

4. Working with the Loop

• Digging deeper into the WordPress loop
• Using a custom Genesis loop
• Using query_args in a custom field
• Challenge
• Solution

Conclusion

• Next steps