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Clean, bright and oh so easy on the eye, that’s my first impression of the Executive 2.0 Genesis child theme from Studiopress.
It’s the sort of theme that lifts your spirits just looking at it.
In fact it’s so inviting, I’ve given it a full page spread… no sidebars to spoil your enjoyment.
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When I wrote my review of the Genesis Extender plugin I briefly mentioned the “set a customised EZ static homepage” option.
I didn’t go in to much detail because this feature deserves a post of its own.
The EZ static homepage feature allows you to take over the homepage of your Genesis Child theme, override the default layout and gives you complete control over the structure and layout.
It allows you to add a CMS style static homepage that is completely customised and all with just a few mouse clicks.
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Is it Christmas yet?
It feels like Christmas because I’ve just had a fabulous present from Eric Hamm… the Genesis Extender plugin and I love it.
This is the plugin that all “non coder” Genesis users have been waiting for.
With this plugin you now have a developer right there in your dashboard and you can use it with any Genesis child theme.
Eric has produced three short videos to show you how to get started with the plugin so let’s take a look at the first one:
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CSS is easy – you find the element you want to target, you put in a big curly opening bracket, you add all the styles and you finish with a big curly closing bracket… looks something like this:
#hello {
border-bottom: 3px double #EEE;
border-top: 3px double #EEE;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 20px 0 25px;
width: 1100px;
}
Trouble is, you have to define the target element correctly, you have to know what styles are available and you have to put the colon and the semi colon in the right places… get any of the syntax wrong and the CSS police will be paying you a visit.
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A couple of weeks ago I published a post about the Catalyst theme framework and with that post I included three videos by the developer Eric Hamm.
The videos gave you an introduction to the Catalyst framework, but they didn’t show you how to use Catalyst in anger, how to produce your own theme.
Enter stage left another of Eric’s fabulous videos in which he shows you how to customise the default Catalyst install to reproduce another theme.
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There’s a lot of talk over on twitter about the direction that StudioPress are taking the Genesis theme framework, and I for one… am getting excited.
Just in case you don’t tweet or you just missed it all, here is my whistle stop round-up of the latest gossip and since it’s on twitter… I thought I’d add a few embedded tweets.
The tweets and the links in the tweets are clickable just like real tweets so please click away to your heart’s content – enjoy.
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I’ve recently got to know Eric Hamm and to be honest; I’m pretty impressed with the guy.
Eric is the developer of a couple of my favourite WordPress plugins and more relevant to this post… he’s the developer of the Catalyst theme framework for WordPress.
The Catalyst theme framework is one of the WordPress frameworks that has stood the test of time.
It has a vibrant and passionate community and it’s supported by an increasing number of Catalyst skins and child themes.
To get a quick feel for Catalyst take a look at this ultra short video… it’s just over a minute long.
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Everyone’s talking about it, Brian Gardner developed it, Sarah Kay Hoffman is the first to use it and we’re all waiting for it… the Genesis Minimum 2.0 theme from Studiopress.
The good news is it’s just been released.
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Plugins, plugins, plugins, if you want to add someting, move something or change something on your WordPress website, chances are there’s a plugin that will do it for you.
According to WordPress.org there are currently 21,296 plugins in the plugins directory, but how do you know which ones you can rely on?
Which ones are well coded, which ones might present a security risk and which ones will still be around in a few years time.
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Fabulous, just what I need for business sites.
Love the choice of colours (and the fact that the colour choice is shown on the home page).
Love the textured background with a hint of highlighting and I love the big tweety bird with the speech balloon at the bottom.
Great job Brian, many thanks.
Keith Davis – Studiopress blog
That was my comment over on the Studiopress blog when I first saw the demo of the Genesis Outreach theme and if anything… I like it even more now.
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