How To Customize Genesis WordPress Theme – Part I

By Shivam Vaid On May 23, 2011 3 Comments    635 views
Subscription Options Wordpress Plugin

This is the first post in a series on how to customize the Genesis premium theme. I recently installed the Genesis premium theme from Studiopress and have been experimenting with customizing it. I would be sharing on what all was tried and what results did it yield. One basic tip to remember is to always use the Genesis Child theme instead of making changes directly in the Genesis framework Customizing the Sidebar The default sidebar that comes with Genesis is empty. You just have a primary widget space and it….. Read More

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity – WordPress 3.1.2

By Shivam Vaid On May 17, 2011 Leave a Comment    245 views
RSS Feed Error

After my upgrade to WordPress 3.1.2, I wrote a couple of new posts. However, I discovered that none of those posts got  automatically tweeted. The tweeting of my posts happens through feed burner socialize. I was wondering what could be the issue. Then it stuck me whether the feed of the blog was getting generated correctly at all. To my horror, I discovered that the feed was throwing up an error because of which neither was the feed getting generated nor the tweet for the new post happening correctly. The….. Read More

Genesis WordPress Theme Preview Shows A Blank Page

By Shivam Vaid On May 10, 2011 Leave a Comment    299 views
Genesis Blank Page Preview Error

I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I am contemplating migrating Inficone to the Genesis theme. A couple of days back, I finally purchased the Genesis Theme ( version 1.6.1 ) and uploaded it to the wp-content of my WordPress installation. It is recommended that the Genesis Child Theme is used with the Genesis framework. Once the child theme was in place, I decided to checkout the look and feel of the site in Genesis by doing a theme preview from the WordPress dashboard. To my surprise I….. Read More

Know How Pricing Of StudioPress Genesis Theme Framework Works

By Shivam Vaid On April 26, 2011 Leave a Comment    77 views

Inficone currently runs on Arthemia wordpress theme created by Michael Hutagalung which I have customized to suit my blogging requirements. I have been contemplating migrating to a premium theme for a while now. The sooner I do this – the better it will be for me as the number of posts and hence the associated risks would keep on increasing over a period of time. One of the premium theme framework that I am seriously considering is Genesis framework by Studiopress. It is one of the more evolved frameworks that….. Read More