Genesis Explained: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Genesis

Key Features

• Up to date: Genesis Explained is completely updated for Genesis 2.9.
• Clear instruction: Learn how to work with the Genesis Framework by following plain English and enjoyablestep-by-step guides.
• Hands-on learning: Master Genesis by working with the code.

Book Description
Genesis is a powerful theme framework for WordPress. The GenesisFramework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websiteswith WordPress. Whether you're a novice or an advanced developer, Genesisprovides the secure and search-engine-optimized foundation that takesWordPress to places you never thought it could go. If you want to spendless time struggling with complex instructions, and more time buildingsites that make you proud, this is the book for you!

This book was up-to-date for Genesis 2.9, the latest and greatest version of the Genesis Framework.

What You’ll Learn
You'll master the Genesis Framework through practical examples, simpleexplanations, and expert advice. This book approaches Genesis from adeveloper's perspective. You'll learn to work with powerful parts of theGenesis Framework, including actions, filters, functions and classes.

Please note: This is not a book for beginners. This book assumes you are familiar withWordPress and have a basic knowledge of PHP, HTML and CSS.

Table of Contents
Main Body

1. Genesis Explained
2. Getting Started with Genesis
3. The Genesis Framework Explained
4. Genesis Actions Explained
5. Genesis Framework Actions Explained
6. Genesis Filters Explained
7. Genesis Framework Filters Explained
8. Genesis Filters with Arrays Explained
9. Genesis Functions Explained
10. Genesis Formatting and General Functions Explained
11. Genesis Image, Markup and Options Functions Explained
12. Genesis Widgetize and Layout Functions Explained
13. Genesis Classes Explained
14. Genesis Breadcrumb and Meta Boxes Classes Explained
15. Genesis Sanitization and Script Loader Classes Explained
16. Genesis Customizer Class Explained
17. Genesis Actions and Filters in Classes Explained
18. Genesis Admin Overview Explained
19. Genesis Admin Class Explained
20. Genesis Admin Boxes, Form and Basic Classes Explained
21. Genesis Config and On Boarding Explained

Bonus Section

1. How to Recover a Crashed Genesis Site
2. How to Create Page Templates in Genesis
3. How to Version Your Genesis Style Sheet
4. How to Add a Widget Area to Genesis
5. How to Change the Content Limit in Genesis
6. How to Load a New Section on Specific Pages
7. How to Build a Genesis Plugin
8. How to Build a WordPress Admin Page with Genesis
9. How to Change the Gallery Post Format Output
10. How to Use Custom Fields in Genesis

About the Author
Nick Croft is a very early adopter of Genesis. He worked in thesupport forums as a volunteer and eventually as a paid part-timer. Hewent on to work as a full-time support person for StudioPress beforemoving on to working as a developer for the people who build Genesis.Even before he literally wrote the book, he wrote the figurative book onGenesis. Nick is also a core contributor to Genesis and has multiple,popular Genesis plugins.