2014
Lynda
Carrie Dils
1:11
English

Genesis allows you to create elegant, secure, and keyword-rich child themes for your WordPress sites. In this course, Carrie Dils takes apart the framework so you can understand the structure and start customizing your own child themes with Genesis. Learn how to set up a development environment and use action hooks to change not only how your theme looks, but also how it behaves. Carrie also shows how to make some of her clients' most-requested theme customizations.

Introduction
Welcome
What you should know before watching this course
Using the exercise files
1. Setting the Stage for Your Customization
Setting up a WordPress development environment
Selecting a child theme to customize
2. Explaining the Genesis Framework
The core of the Genesis framework
Understanding the child theme template structure
Working with the Genesis loop
Understanding action hooks
Working with actions in Genesis
Challenge: Edit your child theme
Solution: Edit your child theme
Using filters
3. Editing Theme Files
Editing the style sheet
Working with functions
Challenge: Add and display a widget
Solution: Add and display a widget
Customizing the homepage
Making common customizations
Conclusion
Challenge: Putting it all together
Solution: Putting it all together
Next steps

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