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A new WordPress Framework hit the block last week – “Genesis” – check out the StudioPress announcement.
Pro-Plus members (affiliate link) were given the opportunity to get a BETA version of the framework and spend some time building child themes while at the same time squashing bugs and spreading the word.
Lucidity Child Theme
So, last night I spend about 3 hours and came up with my first Genesis Child theme, Lucidity.
Its a business/portfolio theme with a simple jQuery fader and custom homepage. The rest of the site is pretty much all Genesis but skinned with my CSS and images. Consider this v1, I plan on updating once I get further into the framework.
Check it out, see what you think. If you are a member of the Pro-Plus forum you can check out a discussion here.
I’ve only spent a few hours with the framework so can’t provide much of a review yet. What I will say is from what I have seen already Lucidity won’t be my last Genesis endeavour.
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Hello Michael,
I am a user of StudioPress themes, but I don’t understand all the technical details… What is the advantage of Genesis versus the other themes, what is a child theme, what did you have to do to go from Genesis to the child theme you designed? I am asking because I could see your child theme be of interest to me, expect I would want 3-column inside pages.
Thanks for the help.
Christine
Hi Christine,
Essentially the Genesis framework is a “middle” layer between WordPress and the Child theme.
Rather than modding the core files of a StudioPress theme and changing the code and layout to fit your needs you can instead use Genesis and create a “child” which will have its own set of rules for design and layout but lean on the principles availiable in the framework.
In theory its great for developers, in practice its no different for users or clients as they simply reap the benefits.
Let me know if you’d like to know more: contact [at] mkjones.co.uk
yes, a simple clean child theme of genesis. love your work.
hi michael , i am still unable to understand what is genesis and child concept — though they still have classic options available.
if u want to use the child one — u need to install genesis along , where as if u want to install classic u dont need genesis — i think i am right?
but the thing in very simple i want to ask is — why do we need genesis and child combination .
please help on this and if any simple tutorial to help on this as i heard the concept of hooks etc is being implemented. kindly help
Hi Pankaj,
You should read the info over at the codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
In short – Child Themes will NOT work without a parent theme. This PARENT can either be a framework like Genesis OR it can be another parent-ready theme such as TwentyTen.
Child Themes developed for Genesis will NOT work with other parent frameworks and they will NOT work alone, you will always need the framework ALSO installed.
Basically you will always need 2 themes in your theme folder. One will be a parent theme, which could be a framework, one will be the child or LIVE theme.
You could even go as far to have child themes of child themes in a sort of Inception-style deep propagation but I wouldn’t recommend it