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#GenesisChild

This is a basic starter Genesis Child Theme to be used with the Genesis Framework on WordPress.

There is a Mobile First version of this starter theme - https://github.com/neilgee/genesischild-mobile-first

This Genesis child theme is declaring support for HTML5, it is responsive and has a number of widgets areas.

###Widgetised Areas

• The theme contains the following widgets

• Pre-Header Left
• Pre-Header Right
• Header Right
• Hero - Home Page only front-page.php
• Optin - Home Page only front-page.php
• Home Left - Home Page only front-page.php
• Home Middle - Home Page only front-page.php
• Home Right - Home Page only front-page.php
• Before Content posts only
• After Content posts only
• Footer Widget Header
• Footer Widgets 1, 2, 3
• Footer
• Post Footer Left
• Post Footer Right

###Home Page The Home Page has been widgetised and the default Genesis loop can be removed.

To remove the Genesis home page loop tweak the front-page.php file by uncommenting line 90:

wpb_genesis_no_content();

and commenting line 91:

//genesis();

###Example For an online visual: http://themes.wpbeaches.com/genesischild/ Areas are highlighted to show boundaries and full width wraps these colors are commented out in the CSS.

###Menus

• Primary Menu is positioned in Header Right Widget Hook and set to Primary Location
• Secondary Menu remains in default area and is Secondary Location

###Custom Header

• Custom Header is supported via Appearance > Header, suggested size is 400x150px which you can change in the Custom Header Array in functions.php
• The header now uses the genesis_seo_title filter and uses an <img> element.

###Background Image

• Background Images is supported, a background image can be uploaded in the WP Dashboard via Appearance > Background, this will scale to fit any viewport via BackstrechJS.

###Javascripts

• FontAwesome is enabled.
• placeholder.js is enabled.
• backstretch.min.js is enabled (via CDN) if a custom background is used.
• SVGeezy is enabled for fallback SVG support

###CSS

• Regular style.css with all Genesis Framework and placeholders to start new project
• 2 x IE styles in CSS directory, one targets IE8 and lower, the other IE9 and lower
• Media Queries set at 767px and 1200px

###WooCommerce

• WooCommerce style sheet set to load before main style sheet
• Some generic CSS styles declared in styles.css
• WooCommerce theme support declared as an action in functions.php but commented out
• No WooCommerce Connect plugin required

###Miscellaneous

• PHP is enabled to execute in widget areas
• Shortcode enabled in widget areas
• 'Read More' link is enabled on post excerpts
• Comments header changed to 'Leave a Comment'
• HTML Tags and Attributes is removed from comments
• The font 'Open Sans' is enqueued from Google Fonts in functions.php
• Author name removed in Post Meta for posts
• SVG support for uploads and fallbacks can use PNG format fallback filed in same directory

Download the zip rename the theme 'genesischild' - place this theme in your WordPress installation "/wp-content/themes/" and activate in WordPress Dashboard