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Tyler Armstrong
13,887 PointsMore Genesis Courses?
Genesis is obviously a great framework and there is plenty of Genesis work going around. Are there plans to include more Genesis courses beyond the Foundations course? The Foundations course is a great place to start, but I find myself having to Google for every customization I want to do, or having to read the tutorials from My Studio. I would love to see a course on how to create my own Genesis Theme from scratch, adding WooCommerce, widget areas, etc. Thanks!
4 Answers
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherYes, we will do a Genesis Theme Development course. However, we need to release one on how to use SASS, Git and staging first since those are all best practices in Genesis development.
We will not have a course on WooCommerce and Genesis together since they historically have problems working well together.
Have you tried adding widget areas using the methods described in other WP courses? They should work.
Byron Allen
7,068 Pointssame here!!!!!
Tyler Armstrong
13,887 PointsHi Zac,
Thanks for your reply! It sounds like a new track is in plan and I'm excited to see it released someday. It sounds like it will be a lot of fun to learn! SASS and Git are awesome tools and I would definitely be interested in learning those as well. I've learned LESS pretty much on my own, so I doubt it will be that much of a learning curve to learn SASS...hopefully haha! I definitely need to learn Git too it sounds like.
I'm sure that WooThemes and Genesis are fierce competitors, so I could understand why WooCommerce isn't quite as easy to implement in a Genesis Theme as it would be a WooTheme. Is there another commerce plugin that you would suggest that plays well with Genesis?
I have used other methods to add widget areas. Specifically, what I learned from your courses. Thanks, man! Seriously...your courses really boosted my learning and saved me countless hours. I guess my question should have been geared towards the hooks and filters, versus the widgets. For example, it took me a few hours on how to implement a slider directly under the header of the sample theme. I enabled the widget, but nothing showed up until I accidentally came across the the genesis_widget_area() function. Once I figured it out, I'm now hooked on Genesis. I can see why it is so popular. Just as your other courses, it really does help to see it implemented and put into action than it is to just read about it in a blog or documentation. I definitely look forward to seeing your future courses! Again, thank you!
Alexandra Spalato
11,478 PointsGenesis work well with woocommerce, there is a plugin "genesis connect woocommerce", and lot genesis / woocommerce themes. But anyway what would be great is an advanced course on genesis theme dev with complex custom post types combination etc... And i also hope an advanced course on woocommerce theme dev
James Home
12,011 PointsJames Home
12,011 PointsHi Zac,
I am currently working on a project with Genesis using Sass so the tutorial might arrive too late, but I will still look forward to watching.
I have to ask why you removed the Genesis framework tutorial from the library! Could you not keep it up until perhaps a month or two before you release the revised version?