First Attempt With the Genesis Framework by StudioPress

First Attempt With the
Genesis Framework by StudioPress

One of my goals this year will be to get a better understanding of how to build wordpress themes. For me, remodeling my house myself is no different than fixing up an old wordpress blog. Sure the tools are different but bottom line, you want theme that looks and does what you want it to do.

Anyway, I’ve had a StudioPress Membership for quite a while and those guys crank out some pretty awesome stuff. They have a unique system and they have an excellent support staff.

The way StudioPress works is through a main framework which attaches to various child themes. When major changes are needed it can be done through the Genesis framework without screwing up the theme. The child themes can be left alone or edited as needed.

Using StudioPress Child Themes

Anyway, I was messing around with a free StudioPress child theme that is very basic and does exactly what I need it to do, I can customize it as needed or just keep it as it is.

Ultimately I want to be able to take a photoshop template, slice it up and create a theme from it. It surely will be a more proficient use of my time to pay someone to slice up my .psd files, but I really want to know how to get it done

I messed around with a theme called Sinatra, I don’t know if it will be up while you’re looking at it. I had a problem with the slider and some of the widgets…. again, not sure if it was me or the original design since the Genesis Framework was just upgraded there might need to be changes to the theme….. hey…its a free theme so what the heck But it is my first attempt at working with the Genesis Framework and a Child theme. So far, I find it a very nice system.

Stay tuned, watch the tag and category called StudioPress and I’ll keep you updated with my progress.

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