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On this weekÔÇÖs episode, Lauren and I discuss the creative process behind the latest StudioPress.com redesign.

In this 29-minute we cover:

• The goals of the redesign
• Changes to the existing logo
• Choices in typography and color
• Design of the Studicons font
• Styling and shooting the site’s photography
• Updates to functionality
• Plans for the future

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On this weekÔÇÖs episode, we’ll explore Lauren’s story and how she went from Principal and Creative Director at Northbound Design to Vice President of StudioPress.

In this 30-minute episode, we cover:

• The start of Lauren’s career as a creative
• How a mix of formal education and self-teaching contribute to what she does now
• The beginnings of Brian and Lauren’s nearly 10-year professional working relationship
• Her experience in Creative Entrepreneurship
• Building an agency on the Genesis Framework
• Why she left her business in pursuit of something greater

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On this weekÔÇÖs episode, we’ll explore Lauren’s story and how she went from Principal and Creative Director at Northbound Design to Vice President of StudioPress.

In this 30-minute episode, we cover:

• The start of Lauren’s career as a creative
• How a mix of formal education and self-teaching contribute to what she does now
• The beginnings of Brian and Lauren’s nearly 10-year professional working relationship
• Her experience in Creative Entrepreneurship
• Building an agency on the Genesis Framework
• Why she left her business in pursuit of something greater

Subscribe to StudioPress FM in iTunes and Listen

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You want to make money online and need a theme that focuses on your content, is easy to navigate — and is memorable at the same time. Your readers? Well, they want the goods, and they want them well-organized and accessible.

Enter Smart Passive Income Pro, a theme that is grabs attention right out of the box.

We worked closely with Pat Flynn to develop Smart Passive Income Pro

With its friendly typography and bold design, Smart Passive Income Pro gives a welcoming and familiar face to your online platform.

A bold navigation area draws the eye and puts your online offerings front and center. Tabbed category browsing above the fold helps you segment information by theme or topic so site visitors can easily access it.

Strong, well-defined post headers draw attention and make the page easy for readers to scan, then jump right into the information theyÔÇÖre looking for. Four types of available column classes allow you to lay out your content in just the right way.

Smart Passive Income Pro includes all the outstanding features youÔÇÖve come to expect with StudioPress themes:

• A mobile-responsive design that looks amazing wherever itÔÇÖs viewed
• Support, documentation, and the StudioPress community forum
• The best rankings possible because of our clean code and mobile-friendly design
• Super-fast page load times
• One-click theme updates
• Airtight security so you can rest easy

Click here to experience Smart Passive Income Pro

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In this inaugural episode of StudioPress FM, Lauren and I discuss how I started the premium WordPress theme industry, StudioPress, and the Genesis Framework.

In this 29-minute episode, we cover:

• How my career began
• My start with blogging, WordPress, and freelance development
• When Lauren and I began working together almost ten years ago
• The one client that changed everything
• The birth of the premium WordPress theme industry
• The launch of StudioPress and the Genesis Framework
• The biggest business decision I ever had to make
• My favorite parts of my journey and lessons I learned along the way

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In our ongoing effort to make sure your Genesis sites are prepared for any new WordPress features and updates, we’re releasing Genesis 2.3.1 ahead of the upcoming WordPress 4.6 release.

Genesis contributors Nick Cernis and Gary Jones helped identify and fix a bug in Genesis 2.3 that caused the dreaded white screen (fatal error) when testing with the WordPress 4.6 beta. It’s a very small change, so you can upgrade with confidence.

The update is available via your dashboard now, and we ask that you update immediately to alleviate any issues when WordPress 4.6 is released.

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Whether your focus is on parenting, sharing healthful recipes, writing reviews of natural products, or offering your favorite home remedies, Wellness Pro has you covered.

It has your audience covered, too, with its gorgeous layout featuring large background images combined with scrolling photo and text displays.

Starting now, you can extend your focus on holistic, mindful living to your online presence and paint a vivid picture for your site visitors.

Wellness Pro, for a picture of healthy living

Do you need clean landing pages, multiple column classes, or blog page templates? Are you craving content layout options? Want to sort your archives by category or author?

Wellness Pro offers it all so that you can build a site that adjusts to your needs.

WeÔÇÖve thought about SEO impact, too, with a focused category archive header. On the home page, the featured text boxes are the perfect place for strong calls to action: this is a theme that knows how to convert!

Wellness Pro features all the built-in goodness youÔÇÖve come to rely on with StudioPress themes:

• A mobile-responsive design that looks amazing wherever itÔÇÖs viewed
• Support, documentation, and the StudioPress community forum
• The best rankings possible because of our clean code and mobile-friendly design
• Super-fast page load times
• One-click theme updates
• Airtight security so you can rest easy

Click here to check out Wellness Pro

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You dedicate time to your ideas ÔÇö and you may have more ideas than time.

Let Maker Pro help you use your time wisely by eliminating the need for you to code a Maker-friendly website from the ground up. Go ahead and tinker, conceptualize, and think up hacks  then show the world the results of your work with Maker Pro.

ItÔÇÖs the perfect theme for you and your projects ÔÇö not to mention your audience ÔÇö because of its intense focus on readability and usability.

Get ready to make something incredible with Maker Pro

Clean typography and masterful use of whitespace are the hallmarks of Maker Pro. TheyÔÇÖll work together to make your images and content more vibrant on the page. This theme also uses the Genesis Portfolio Pro plugin, helping you to show off your work with style.

There are author, contact, and landing pages ready to go, and you can choose from multiple column classes. WeÔÇÖve also included a pricing table markup so you can set up a pricing page if youÔÇÖd like. To further make a site that is truly your own, Maker Pro comes with button classes and text styles, as well.

Maker Pro features everything youÔÇÖve come to expect from StudioPress themes:

• A mobile-responsive design that looks amazing wherever itÔÇÖs viewed
• Support, documentation, and the StudioPress community forum
• The best rankings possible because of our clean code and mobile-friendly design
• Super-fast page load times
• One-click theme updates
• Airtight security so you can rest easy

Click to explore Maker Pro now

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Every once in a while, I’ll run across a site running Genesis. Actually, it’s more than every once in a while, but what do you expect when so many people use Genesis?! But anyway, I’ll visit a site running Genesis and notice that they’re running Genesis as the active theme, instead of using a child theme. I can’t help but shake my head, because not only is this incredibly risky, but we actively recommend that you DO NOT run Genesis as the active theme on any site.

But why not? There are several reasons, actually.

A child theme allows you to customize

Whenever you read a tutorial for adding or removing things from your site output, it’s likely that the tutorial will says “put this code in your child theme’s functions.php file.” It’s hard to do that when you’re not running a child theme.

Also, child themes allow you to run your own CSS file. 100% custom, if you want. Make the site look exactly how you want it to look, or use one of the dozens of child themes we sell here on StudioPress.

The point is that you’re going to have a very difficult time customizing Genesis without a child theme.

A child theme protects your customizations

Once you’re done customizing your site, you probably want to protect all that hard work from being overwritten when we release an update to Genesis … and we’re always updating Genesis. Even when we’re not in an active development cycle, we’re still pushing updates to Genesis and preparing maintenance releases. And if we decide to change things in the default Genesis CSS, you want to be sure that your site design stays intact.

A child theme keeps all your custom code and CSS safely in its own folder, so Genesis can be updated without affecting the look of your site.

Your site will show an error if you activate Genesis

As of Genesis 2.3, if you activate Genesis directly, we’re going to show a warning on your dashboard that tells you to use a child theme. Do you really want to stare at that warning every time you log in to your site? Of course not! So go download the sample child theme and get rid of that warning.

It’s just good practice

Really, this all boils down to separating the core functionality of the framework from the customizations and design of your site.

Let the framework be a framework. And let your creativity and custom code stay where it should stay … safely in a child theme.

Should I @import the Genesis style.css

We’ve gotten this question many times over the years, and we answer the same thing every time.

No.

Genesis is not a CSS framework. And over time, the Genesis stylesheet has changed a lot. If you’re dynamically using the Genesis CSS as the base for your site’s CSS, sooner or later you’re site is going to look broken.

Just take a look at how the default Genesis style has changed over the years.

Always start with a fresh stylesheet in your child theme. Not only will this perform better, but it will keep all your CSS safe from any changes we make in Genesis.

Additional Reading

• Genesis Sample: Updated for Developers and Users
• Building a site without any Genesis child themes?
• How to Build a Genesis Child Theme

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Occasionally, even the most mature software needs a little freshening up. Instead of focusing on big new features and large changes, we opted to go through the backlog of bug reports and enhancement suggestions. The result is a much more polished and stable Genesis Framework.

We have big plans for Genesis 2.4 and beyond! So making sure that we focused on these important details seemed like the logical choice for a 2.3 release.

Check out the improvements in 2.3 below!

New and Improved

• A CHANGELOG.md file for the project. (yay!)
• Update to normalize.css 4.1.1.
• Update our theme tags in style.css.
• Improve the look of the settings screens.
• Pass entry image link through the markup API.
• Add a toolbar link to CPT archive settings when viewing a CPT archive.
• Add shortcodes for site title and home link.
• Enable after entry widget area for all post types via post type support.
• Hide layout selector when only one layout is supported.
• Use TinyMCE (visual editor) for archive intro text input.
• Allow foreign language characters in content limit functions.
• Add accessibility to the paginated post navigation.
• Allow adjacent single entry navigation via post type support.
• Added relative_depth parameter to date shortcodes.

Bug Fixes

• Use correct class for superfish hover state.
• Prevent empty footer widgets markup.
• Prevent empty spaces in entry footer of CPTs.
• Prevent author shortcode from outputting empty markup when no author is assigned.
• Disable author box on entries where post type doesn’t support author.
• Disable author shortcode output if author is not supported by post type.
• Fix issue with no sitemap when running html5 and no a11y support for 404 page.
• Exclude posts page from page selection dropdown in Featured Page widget.

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