Here is the latest installment of monthly “Genesis Community TLDR” blog series featuring happenings from around the Genesis community.
BUT FIRST … Our virtual developer conference is at the end of this month, have you signed up for WP Engine DE{CODE} 2020?
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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!
Here’s what the Genesis community was up to over the last month:
David Vogelpohl will be a guest on the LifterLMS webinar “How to Launch Your Online Course Website with WordPress with Ease on a Solid Technology Foundation Even if You’re a Complete Beginner” – get all the details and sign up here!
Come learn how to unlock the incredible power and flexibility of WordPress for your online course website without making the classic mistakes. Three technology companies come together to show you how to launch your online course website like a pro. WP Engine, brandiD (creators of the Course Maker Pro Genesis child theme), and LifterLMS come together to do a training on how to build your online teaching company on a solid technology foundation. It’s important to make smart technology decisions for your project, especially at the beginning. In this training you’ll learn how to choose the right technology tools to support you from course idea through first sale and to full scale.
Jan 16, 2020 10:30 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)
WP Engine is looking for a Senior Product Manager – know anyone who would be a good fit? Check out our recruitment page for this and other openings at WP Engine.
WordPress veteran Remkus de Vries explains why he was an early adopter of Genesis, and how he’s used it to grow his digital agency, Buro Kreas.
Tim Jensen has shared a useful snippet of code, because “admin notices are getting out of control”
Learn how to disable Gutenberg on certain templates with this article from Bill Erickson
Mike Hemberger shared 500+ icons that are 100% code.
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Bjornen Nilsson shared some useful WooCommerce CSS:
Since most child themes do not have CSS for fixing the “broken” checkout layout, I thought that this little CSS snippet could be of help.
How To Create And Customize A SASS/SCSS Version Of The Genesis Sample Theme Using Themer Pro And Instant IDE
Tom Nunn explained how you can enable “Dark Mode” purely with CSS media queries.
You can also implement this so it inherits the users preferred mode, which the browser takes from the users OS.
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.