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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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Creative, crafty and oh so colourful… that’s Craftiness, the latest Genesis child theme by Lauren Gaige of Restored 316 Designs.
The Craftiness theme is part of the Genesis themes Community Marketplace where talented designers and developers from around the community sell their work.
Lauren already has a number of “stand out” themes in the Marketplace, including the gorgeous Vintage, and the addition of Craftiness reinforces her status as one of the most talented and versatile developers in the Genesis community.
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The Going Green theme was produced for one purpose and one purpose only… to provide you with the best “green” WordPress theme on the market today.
Sure you could use it for other types of websites and blogs, but that would be missing the point.
Green and brown textured backgrounds combined with subtle drop shadows and exquisitely detailed sidebar elements create a simple but stunning eco-friendly WordPress theme.
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Studiopress, WordPress, WordPress themes, theme frameworks, Genesis, child themes…. no it’s not a word association game, it’s my hopeless attempt to explain what the Genesis theme framework is all about.
Fortunately greater brains than mine have been this way before, so lets see what they have to say.
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Put a dozen WordPress enthusiasts in a room and ask them to pick the top ten Genesis child themes… and they’ll argue forever and a day.
I’m just the same, how can you pick the best when they are all so different and all meant for different types of sites and blogs.
Fortunately we don’t have to do the choosing because Studiopress have just published a list of their “Top 10 Best Selling Themes for July 2012″
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Are you looking for a contact form?
Are you looking for a free contact form?
Are you looking for a free contact form that is easy to install, easy to configure, is well styled and has a captcha to stop those nasty spammers?
Stop looking, you’ve found it:
Contact Form 7 and Really Simple Captcha are two free plugins that combine seamlessly to give you a great looking contact form and an “easy to read” anti spam captcha.
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Love it or loathe it Social Media is here to stay so you might as well take full advantage of it.
Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest are all great ways to promote your site, establish your brand and build a loyal following.
But enough… this post is not about the merits of Social Media, it’s about the practicalities of Social Media.
It’s about two plugins that make it easy peasy for your visitors to subscribe, follow, pin, befriend or just link to your various social profiles.
The developers of both plugins are Brian Gardner and Nathan Rice, two of the lead guys over at StudioPress so these plugins have a top drawer pedigree.
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Gorgeous textures, elegant fonts and stunning colour combinations, that’s what greets you when you first see the Glitter and Lace WordPress theme.
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I love Genesis child themes.
They look great straight “out of the box” and they allow you to create fabulous looking, customised home pages… without touching a single line of code.
To show you how easy it is to create your own customised homepage, take a look at this Studiopress video presented by Josh Byers:
Now you know all there is to know about Genesis homepages, but just in case you missed anything, here’s a short recap of the main points:
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So what is Genesis?
It’s a WordPress theme framework.
And what’s a WordPress theme framework?
Well it’s a… a sort of… a kind of… tell you what, let Josh Byers from Studiopress explain.
Thanks Josh, I would have got there eventually – honest.
So what is Genesis?
It’s a Supertheme, a theme which contains all the most important elements, a theme that you can make look just the way you want by customising it yourself or by using a child theme.
These are the other points that Josh made about the Genesis theme framework:
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Contact details are:
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