11 Genesis Framework Hacks for Beginner

Genesis Framework is one of the most popular theme frameworks for WordPress. This framework is insanely popular and used by industry leaders like Harsh Agrawal from ShoutMeLoud, Syed Balkhi from WPBeginner, Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome, Darren Rowse from ProBlogger. I use this top-notch theme framework for all of my client projects. RainaStudio built on WordPress and using Genesis Framework.

Today, I am writing the blog post about top 10 Genesis Framework customization for beginners. If you are one and looking for Genesis tutorials to customize your own website, this post is for you. Very recently, I have researched on the web and a few Genesis Framework user-to-user community. Come with the idea to publish some unique snippets to solve on going problems.

Best Genesis Framework Hacks for Beginner; You’ll Ever Need

Before you start going through the tutorial, here are some pieces of information you need know. Each of them helps you more and more to dig into Genesis Framework.

• Function should be registered in functions.php
• Each template of Genesis Framework can act like functions.php
• Dig into each of Genesis hooks (a complete reference of hooks)
• The easiest way to customize and revamp Genesis is to utilize functions
• The genesis(); tag has 3 main components ( WordPress Functions, HTML5 & XHTML Markup, Actions Hooks )
• Don’t include the PHP opening tag <?php while copy and paste the code

However, if you are using Genesis Framework for a while, I think you know pretty about it. Let’s see what are the top 10 customizations.

1. Customize Entry Meta to Add Author Avatar to It

The image is an example of what I want the entry meta to look and I get it on the frontend. So, below is the code snippet for the changes. Copy the code and paste it below into your child theme’s functions.php file.

2. Add Content Before Loop in Home or Blog Page

The above image is pointed what I achieve. I wanted to get a title and a paragraph before blog posts start. All are hard coded. So, if you want to change the title and paragraph in future, you’ll have edit from theme file. Below is the code snippet copy and paste it into your theme’s functions.php file... [click to reading continue]