Interested in Genesis child theme development – either creating a theme from scratch or modifying an existing Genesis theme? This post is for you. Note there are affiliate links in this post. Here’s my full disclosure.
An Overview of Frameworks, Parent Themes, and Child Themes
Let’s start by taking a moment to get on the same page about what a WordPress theme framework is and where the Genesis Framework falls into that definition.
The WordPress Codex (basically the bible of WordPress), defines theme frameworks in one of three ways:
A “drop-in” code library used to facilitate development of a theme
A stand-alone base/starter theme that is intended either to be forked into another theme
A parent theme template
The Genesis Framework falls into the third category and is meant to serve as a parent theme.
In practical terms, this means that if you have a WordPress site with the Genesis Framework installed, then any Genesis child theme you activate will inherit all the functionality of the Framework (a.k.a, the parent theme).
The benefit of this structure is that you never need to directly edit files in the Genesis Framework, which leaves it safe to update.
Instead,
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