Genesis is Search Engine Optimized
You put a lot into your site – you want to make sure that you’re ranking well in the search engines so readers, customers, and clients can find you. And clean, optimized code is important for achieving the best rankings possible.
State of the art code and smart design architecture make it easy for search engines to see what you’ve got. With automatic updates to the Genesis Framework, you never have to think about it again. Your code will always be up to date and fully optimized.
Genesis Offers Great-Looking Turn-key Designs
You want sleek, professional design — without paying a fortune for it. The 38 Genesis turn-key designs give you an array of beautiful frames for your content. And of course, we’re constantly adding to your design options.
The way your site looks can be instantly updated by what’s called a child theme, while all of the SEO benefits and the core Genesis functionality remain untouched. That means that changing the look of your site is a snap. You can radically change the look of your site every week if you want to, and you’ll never hurt your search engine rankings because the design is kept completely separate from the core code.
Genesis Gives You State-of-the-Art Security
WordPress sites can be vulnerable to those who want to take your site down or exploit it for malicious reasons. Having your site hacked is an expensive, time-consuming hassle — and it can really damage your reputation. We brought security expert and core WordPress developer Mark Jaquith in to make sure the Genesis Framework had the best security possible. With his help, we build our framework to follow all WordPress security best practices.
Widget Ready
WordPress widgets are the quick and easy way to add powerful functionality to your site. Without having to know anything about code, you can use simple “widgets” to add sidebars, social media sharing buttons, and much more.
Theme Options
Want to update your font size and choice? Change the categories you display? Adjust the number of posts you show on your home page? All these and many more can simply be selected from a drop-down box. Adjusting these critical options is easy, and your site is updated instantly (view options page).
Comment Functionality
Comments are a great way to build engagement and loyalty with your readers. Our themes give your readers a great comment experience, including threaded comments and Gravatar integration.
Ready for Advertising
Most of our themes are ready for advertising. Just insert your advertising code, like Google Adsense, Azoogle Ads, Clicksor, or any others, into a text widget and start collecting your advertising revenue.
Developed for Localization
A major feature of StudioPress themes are they are fully internationalized (I18n). This means our themes are ready to be translated by you into your own native language!
Auto-sized Featured Images
There are millions of blogs out there. If you want yours to stand out, you need to draw attention to your blog and articles … and nothing sparks interest better than using great images. But image management and creating thumbnails can sometimes be a hassle. We’ve made thumbnails simple by integrating our themes to use WordPress featured image capability.
WordPress and Theme Tutorials
Want to go a bit further with WordPress? To get even more out of Genesis? Our tutorials will teach you all you need to know.
Genesis has Custom Widgets and Layout Options
Because the Genesis Framework has been widgetized beyond just the sidebar, we developed some custom widgets for you to use on any area of your site. Here’s a list of the custom widgets available with the Genesis Framework:
My Tweets – displays an unordered list of your latest Tweets (view widget).
User Profile – displays the Gravatar of a user, as well as their bio and a link to an about page (view widget).
eNews & Updates – displays an opt-in box for users to receive your posts by email (view widget).
Featured Posts – displays post excerpts and a thumbnail to be used in a featured section (view widget).
Featured Page – displays page excerpts and a thumbnail to be used in a featured section (view widget).
Another great feature is that you can “mix and match” layout. This means you can choose, via a radio-button, any of the 6 layouts for each one of your individual pages or posts. You’re no longer are limited to one layout for your entire site! These are easily selected on the Theme’s Settings page and give you the flexibility with all themes (Genesis parent and any child themes) to choose whichever layout you want as the default. Here’s a list of the 6 default layout options:
content/sidebar
sidebar/content
content/sidebar/sidebar
sidebar/content/sidebar
sidebar/sidebar/content
full width content {no sidebar}
Create a smart WordPress blog or website with Genesis. You may want a customized design, or even a designed-from-scratch look and feel that reflects your own brand.