Here is the latest installment of monthly “Genesis Community TLDR” blog series featuring happenings from around the Genesis community.
If you’d like to submit something for us to share in these roundups, or someone you know is up to something cool within the Genesis universe, you can post about it in Genesis WP on Facebook or in the #self-promotion group in Genesis WP in Slack. We’re looking forward to reading your suggestions and socializing what the Genesis community is up to in this monthly blog series!
Latest Genesis News:
Navigation 1.1.0 is live!
- Added: CSS styles for WordPress 5.4 Social Icons.
- Added: Editor styles to ensure theme colors work for inline text colors.
- Changed: Updated one-click theme setup content to include WordPress 5.4 button markup.
- Changed: Editor styles for WordPress 5.4 compatibility, including link color, buttons, headings, and lists.
- Fixed: Atomic Blocks post grid editor link colors.
- Fixed: Submenu navigation z-index in IE11.
- Fixed: Cover block fixed background image in Firefox.
- Fixed: Make underlay quote style variation links clickable.
Authority Pro 1.4.0 has been released.
- Added: CSS styles for WordPress 5.4 Social Icons.
- Added: Editor styles to ensure theme colors work for inline text colors.
- Changed: Updated one-click theme setup content to include WordPress 5.4 button markup.
- Changed: Editor styles for WordPress 5.4 compatibility, including link color, buttons, headings, and lists.
- Fixed: Atomic Blocks post grid editor link colors.
Infinity 1.3.2 has been released.
- Added: CSS styles for WordPress 5.4 Social Icons.
- Added: Editor styles to ensure theme colors work for inline text colors.
- Changed: Editor styles for WordPress 5.4 compatibility, including link color, buttons, and lists.
Genesis Sample 3.3.0 is live!
- CSS to adjust left padding for WordPress 5.4 Social Icons.
- Editor styles to ensure theme colors work for inline text colors.
- Editor styles for WordPress 5.4 compatibility, including link color, buttons, headings, and lists.
Changed - Updated one-click theme setup content to include WordPress 5.4 button markup.
- Update developer dependencies.
Winning Agent Pro 2 is out now!
- This third-party theme by Winning Agent is a revamped version of their archived Winning Agent 1 theme.
- It uses Gutenberg and Genesis One-Click Theme Setup.
- Purchasers of Winning Agent 1 will see Winning Agent 2 in their my.sp downloads area; they do not need to re-purchase.
Foodie Pro 4.4 is now available in my.studiopress.com
- Compatibility with Genesis 3.3.0
- Recipe index filter + search now 100% full width on mobile
- Updated comments styling
- Set default entry-info color to darker grey for accessibility compliance (fixes low-contrast problems)
- Set default entry-info hyperlinks to underline for accessibility compliance
- Set default post hyperlinks to underline for accessibility compliance
- Set default footer hyperlinks to underline for accessibility compliance
- Set default sidebar hyperlinks to underline for accessibility compliance
- Added styling for figcaption element to match block editor
- Removed unnecessary styling from sidebar lists
- Homepage and category page post titles set to font-size: 1em
- Sidebar font-size reduced to 0.8em on desktop only
Here’s a couple of site launches from the Genesis community over the last month:
Fabian did his second project based on Genesis Framework, and it is in German
Anita generously helped Hero Dogs, a lovely organization by switching them over from Outreach to Essence Pro, some custom work and donating three months of maintenance and on-call help to them when they need it.
Latest updates from around the community:
Sridhar Katakam published some great articles:
- Category-specific Header Hero images in Essence Pro
- ACF Star Rating in WordPress
- Split Nav Menus in Navigation Pro
David Schmeltzle and the BizBudding team are celebrating the release of Mai 2.0, Lindsey’s new theme Mai Sparkle, and @JiveDig and @seothemes birthday. Both were born on the same day!
To celebrate, we’ve launched a bundle that is $50 off during April — it includes all Mai Theme themes, all SEO Theme themes, all Pretty Darn Cute themes, and all new Mai 2.0 themes released during the subscription year (and there will be a dozen of new themes this year). The bundle costs $199/year — and changes to $249 May 1st.
Nahuai Badiola announced that Código Genesis has 500+ tutorials about Genesis Framework and WordPress!
And finally …
If you have been wondering about Headless WordPress, how about this as some inspiration? I hooked up my original Commodore 64 to read the latest posts from my Maker Hacks website using the WordPress JSON API. The gigabit fibre connection was probably a touch overkill for this project, however …
We hope you enjoyed reading what other members of the Genesis community have been up to. As a reminder, if you’d like to submit something you or someone you know is up to within the Genesis universe you can post about it in Genesis WP on Facebook or in the #self-promotion group in Genesis WP in Slack.