Let’s Build a Custom Developer’s Genesis Starter Child Theme Lab

Lab Date: July 21, 2016

This hands-on coding lab walks you through the entire process of converting a standard Genesis theme into a developer-friendly, modular theme. The purpose of this lab is to teach you about the following:

1. Techniques to save you time and time as you are building your own workflow and starter theme
2. Modularity for PHP and CSS
3. How to break up your code to be more readable, reusable, and thus, more maintainable.
4. How to convert a style.css file into a Sass module
5. How to setup Gulp as your task runner to process the Sass into style.css and a minified version style.min.css
6. How to build your own modern workflow with Composer, Sass, Gulp, Bourbon, and Neat.

What's in this repository?

There are 2 separate themes in this repository:

1. Version 2.2.4 of the Genesis Sample Theme
2. The final Developers Starter Child Theme - it's the final version that you will build in this lab

How about the new version of the Sample Theme?

Late in 2016, StudioPress upgraded the Sample theme to include a WooCommerce module. Once you complete this lab, you will be able to add the new updates to your Developers theme by yourself.

Dependencies

This child theme requires the following dependencies:

• Genesis framework
• WordPress

Installation

To install this repository, do the following:

1. Open up terminal and navigate to the wp-content/themes folder.
2. Then type: git clone git@github.com:KnowTheCode/Genesis-Developer-Starter-Lab.git
3. Then move both themes out of the new folder and into the root of the wp-content/themes folder.
4. You can then delete the new folder, as it's not needed any longer.

You will use the Genesis Sample theme in this repository for the lab.

Contributors

All feedback, bug reports, and pull requests are welcome.