Genesis Developer Features

Genesis enhances WordPress with powerful features that site owners love.

For your clients #

Developers using Genesis can offer their clients these features without having to build them from scratch or install additional plugins:

Selectable page and archive layouts, including full-width, content-sidebar, sidebar-content and more. More on Genesis Layouts.
Accessible HTML markup and other accessibility considerations.
Great SEO by default, with schema.org markup and SEO options that require no additional plugins unless you choose to use your own.
Custom widgets for User Profile, Features Posts, and Featured Page.
Custom meta boxes such as the Scripts field, enabling per-page JavaScript for conversion analytics and more.
A range of extendable theme options such as how archives are displayed.
Gutenberg Optimized child themes that you can build upon and adapt. See Genesis child themes.

The Tenon accessibility team found Genesis-powered WordPress sites are the most accessible in their survey of content management systems and frameworks.

Genesis offers features for busy developers too:

Genesis provides a battle-tested HTML structure by default to help you avoid SEO and accessibility pitfalls when hand-writing HTML from scratch, and to accelerate the development cycle.
The Genesis Theme Setup API is a theme setup wizard for Genesis child themes that enables you to install plugins and set up sample homepage and page content upon theme activation.
The Genesis Configuration API lets you override Genesis configuration in your child theme, and store your own PHP configuration centrally in your theme's config folder.
Genesis offers a wealth of theme support options to enhance your custom child theme with Genesis features. These also simplify the addition of common site functionality such as footer and after-post widget areas.
A starter child theme called Genesis Sample to use as a starting point for your Genesis powered sites.
Constants, filters, actions, and helper functions to control the output of Genesis child themes with minimal and maintainable code.
A vibrant Genesis community to get help and share your feedback.
A documented contribution process via GitHub.
A release history dating back to January 2010 and a bright roadmap.

Learn what you need to develop with Genesis, put your questions to the Genesis community, or get Genesis now: