Genesis Sandbox (Free Version)

Installation

1. Upload the theme folder via FTP to your wp-content/themes/ directory.
2. Go to your WordPress dashboard and select Appearance.
3. Be sure to activate the Genesis child theme, and not the Genesis parent theme.
4. Inside your WordPress dashboard, go to Genesis > Theme Settings and configure them to your liking.

Features

The Free Version of the Genesis Sandbox provides developers with a base theme for quicker child theme development pushing the focus more on CSS and design.

Functions File (functions.php)

This file contains the bulk of the heavy lifting for the child theme. In this file, you will find the following:

1. Initialize Sandbox

2. Customize Genesis Sidebar Defaults

3. Theme Setup

   1. Content Width
   2. Structural Wraps
   3. Post Info/Meta
   4. Post Formats
   5. Images
   6. Custom Background
   7. Genesis Custom Header
   8. Footer Widgets
   9. Genesis Menus
   10. Top Navigation
   11. Custom Footer
   12. Responsiveness
   13. Scripts
   14. Editor Style
   15. Remove Sidebars
   16. Set Default Layout
   17. Remove Unused Page Layouts
   18. Excerpt/Content Limit/Content Read More
   19. Genesis Readme Support
   20. Genesis Edit Link
   21. Unused Contact Methods

4. Register Extra Sidebars

5. Load Genesis

6. Excerpt/Content Limit/Content Read More

7. Genesis Custom Header Admin Style

8. Genesis Custom Header Admin Style

9. Scripts

10. Navigation

11. Contact Methods

12. Custom Footer

Initialization File (init.php)

This file contains the necessary components to dynamically create the necessary constants for the child theme based on changes made in style.css, so that you make the change once, it is made across the site. Constants created are as follows: Data: CHILD_SETTINGS_FIELD (Text Domain with '-settings' added), CHILD_DOMAIN (Text Domain), CHILD_THEME_VERSION (Version), CHILD_THEME_NAME (Theme Name), CHILD_THEME_URL (Theme URI), CHILD_DEVELOPER (Author), and CHILD_DEVELOPER_URL (Author URI).

The directory and URL constants are structural constants made available to the child theme developer. Directories: CHILD_LIB_DIR, CHILD_IMAGES_DIR, CHILD_ADMIN_DIR, CHILD_JS_DIR, CHILD_CSS_DIR; URLs: CHILD_LIB, CHILD_IMAGES, CHILD_ADMIN, CHILD_JS, CHILD_CSS

Admin Settings File (gs-settings.php)

This file contains the proper method of adding an Admin page. The footer metabox is a fully working metabox; however, the navigation metabox is simply a sample metabox to be changed by you to add additional options as needed demonstrating how to use the Genesis Admin class.

Inpost Functions File (gs-inpost-functions.php)

If you or your client uses WordPresss SEO or All-in-One SEO (or another SEO plugin) plugins, then this file will create a metabox for page specific scripts and page redirection.

Plugins Folder

This folder is great for delivering themes to clients, an alternative to mu-plugins, and ensuring clients cannot break themes/sites. So plugins.php is the configuration file that contains some examples for you to use. Please see TGMPA site for more information. The plugins folder (/lib/plugins/plugins/) is for packaging any private, propriety plugins for the site (e.g., core functionality plugins, etc.).

Alternative Files (alt folder: functions-alt.php, init-alt.php, gs-functions-alt.php)

When I am developing a non-commercialized child theme or a site for a client, I push all functions out of functions.php which enables me to quickly see what the client has done versus what I have done. This makes it easier for me to manage my client, my client's expectations, etc. enabling me to know when something was my fault and when something was their fault. I highly recommend this approach because as we know, our clients never mess anything up and "It just happened."

In essence, the setup function from functions.php is pushed to init.php, and the other functions are pushed to gs-functions.php resulting in the functions-alt.php. This provides a clean slate for the client to do whatever they'd like to their own product. To use this alternative setup, you will need to remove the original functions (e.g., delete functions.php, init.php, and gs-functions.php) and rename the alt functions to the original names (e.g., functions-alt.php -> functions.php, init-alt.php -> init.php, and gs-functions-alt.php -> gs-functions.php). If you do not wish to use these, please delete the *-alt.php files.

Included Libraries

This child theme will include popular libraries such as:

1. Twitter Bootstrap 2.2.2
2. Font Awesome 3.0
3. Pretty Photo 3.1.4
4. Modernizer 2.6.3

HTML5 File

This file contains the way to make Genesis 1.9 HTML5 by changing the doctype, header, nav and footer sections to HTML5 tags. It also contains code for HTML5Shiv and Modernizer if you so choose to enable those features as well.

Snippets File

This file contains the most popular Genesis snippets for copy and paste use.

1. Layout
2. Favicon
3. Remove Genesis in-post metaboxes
4. Remove Genesis Admin Menus
5. Genesis Style Selector
6. Body & Post Classes
7. Author Boxes
8. Post Info & Post Meta
9. Customize Links
   • Next/Previous Links
   • Newer/Older Links
10. Search Customizations
11. Google Fonts
12. Remove Genesis Site Title, Site Description, & Header Right
13. Reposition Items: Breadcrumbs, Footer, Primary & Secondary Navs
14. Remove Genesis/WordPress widgets
15. Remove Superfish
16. Enqueue jQuery from Google CDN with Fallback
17. CSS Cache Buster
18. Genesis Theme Settings
19. Alternative Doctype
20. Intermediate Image Sizes
21. Genesis Slider
22. Avatars

Support

Please visit Genesis Sandbox for theme support.