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WordPress: Customizing Themes with Genesis

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Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Carrie Dils

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