Genesis theme for WordPress from StudioPress is a parent theme framework on which many child themes are built upon. WordPress Theme frameworks make lives of both developers and end users alike. The primary advantage of using any WP framework as a parent theme is the ability to easily update your theme without losing all the customizations.
By itself genesis has a neat, tidy and a regular blog type design offering 6 different layouts that can be chosen from the theme setting panel. It has 2 sets of customizable drop-down nav menus and breadcrumb navigation that can be turned on or off in the admin. It comes with 7 custom widgets to use on any of the widgetized spaces.
Genesis is quite search engine friendly as well, doing all the essential SEO stuff that every good theme should do. It has many SEO options like custom head titles, meta descriptions & keywords, blocking archives etc.
Genesis theme framework features
- Flexible framework built for use with child themes
- Theme settings panel for easy customizations
- 7 custom widgets including a twitter widget
- 6 optional layouts – content/sidebar, sidebar/content, content/sidebar/sidebar, sidebar/content/sidebar, sidebar/sidebar/content, full width content without sidebars
- SEO options – Head titles, meta descriptions, meta tags, noindex & nofollow options
- 40 action hooks for customizations – mainly for developers
- Compatible with buddypress
- Automatic theme updates
- Documentation and support
