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:
Our biggest news this month is Genesis Pro is now available on StudioPress and can be used with any WordPress hosting provider. Right now you can get a year free on WP Engine as part of the deal!
Carrie wrote an epic blog post about the Future of Building with Genesis.
Get the replays from Summit/2020 – WP Engine’s Virtual Conference which features David’s update on the future of Genesis that you won’t want to miss!
News from around the community
David Schmeltzle was featured on Press This
Many freelancers and agencies share the same dream of leveraging technology they’ve created for servicing agency clients as a springboard to launch their own products in WordPress or beyond. There are so many wonderful examples of products coming from within agency teams, but how do agencies go about this? What does success look like? And how the heck do you keep running your agency business while you make the transition?!?! In this episode of PressThis, we interview David Schmeltzle of Mai Themes about his journey building a product business from and around the technology his team built for their agency clients
David and BizzBudding also launched their Mai Reach Theme
Amber Hinds just launched a new website for the Colorado-Wyoming Alliance for Minority Participation at Colorado State University using Genesis. It’s ADA and Section 508 compliant.
Also, launched earlier in the year a website for Workforce Solutions Panhandle that is accessible and uses Genesis.
Matt Whiteley launched northoaksfinancial.com
Brendan Hufford put together a free 5-day challenge that walks you through improving your PageSpeed.
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.