Genesis Framework

I got an interesting request this week to change his Genesis framework child theme’s homepage .site-title H1 wrap to a p wrap. I was going to advise against this until the request continued to change one of the widget titles to an H1 and become his new site’s title.

My first thought was that I had to edit the entire header or site title with a filter but it was actually much more simple than that.

Looking at the Genesis core code, it starts off looking like something familiar: adding a filter for genesis_seo_title. Then I saw something else by jumping around a bit in that area of lib/structure/header.php:

// And finally, $wrap in h1 if HTML5 & semantic headings enabled.
$wrap = genesis_html5() && genesis_get_seo_option( 'semantic_headings' ) ? 'h1' : $wrap;
$wrap = apply_filters( 'genesis_site_title_wrap', $wrap );

Aha! Could it really be as simple as changing that heading in the wrap? As we read on in the file, we see more evidence that is how things work:

// Determine which wrapping tags to use.
$wrap = genesis_is_root_page() && 'description' === genesis_get_seo_option( 'home_h1_on' ) ? 'h1' : 'p';

// Wrap homepage site description in p tags if static front page.
$wrap = is_front_page() && ! is_home() ? 'p' : $wrap;

// And finally, $wrap in h2 if HTML5 & semantic headings enabled.
$wrap = genesis_html5() && genesis_get_seo_option( 'semantic_headings' ) ? 'h2' : $wrap;

So this is the code to change the site title’s wrap when on the front-page… by placing this in the front-page.php file found in most of the child themes:

//* Change site-title SEO wrap
add_filter('genesis_site_title_wrap','seo_wrap_site_title');

function seo_wrap_site_title($wrap) {
	return 'p';
}

This matches what the title wrap is on inner pages and I won’t dwell on or try to figure out why this child theme’s front-page title wasn’t already how the client wanted, but now you, too, have the code to change the wrap on the site title in Genesis with a very easy filter.

I had to avoid a long title because the actual topic is even longer:

How to add Genesis custom post type archive settings when you used a plugin to create the CPT(s).

In this case, the site is using Types and was used to create four CPTs, kill the default taxonomies, and create categories specific to each CPT. There is no way in the plugin to add support for genesis-cpt-archives-settings so there was no Archive Settings item in the CPT.

Between a support topic for the plugin and my own fixes, I was able to create a solution for my client site, so I share it with you.

add_action('init', 'cpt_archive_custom_init');
function cpt_archive_custom_init() {
//Construct an array of Post Types
$types = array('type1', 'type2', 'type3', 'type4',);
//Do a foreach (run the action over each single result of the above array)
foreach ( $types as $type ) {
add_post_type_support( $type, 'genesis-cpt-archives-settings' );
}
}

I’m proud to announce that my first Team Treehouse course has launched today! I wrote yesterday about my Treehouse experience back in September when I was their guest instructor for a week in Orlando, and today the course has gone live: Genesis Framework Foundations.

In the course, I discuss and demonstrate Genesis child theme selection, Genesis-specific plugins, the framework settings, and run through a couple of child theme demo site setups using a simple FTP/SFTP connection and some simple CSS edits and pasting a PHP snippet from the StudioPress site.

Here is the trailer for the course you’ll see on the Treehouse site:

Everything from the producer, audio tech, and teleprompter were top-notch and it really helped make the best product I was capable of on my first go. Then the artists and motion graphics department took my scripted descriptions of my vision of what would help the students and they blew me away!

I am also happy to let you know that we are working on our next course that will lead into something… special. Something a LOT of people will want to dig into. I can’t say what either one is yet, but I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to teach people about what I love to do on a much bigger scale.

If you take the course and have any feedback, I’d love to hear it so I can improve and build upon this in the future.

Back in May, I was watching my Twitter stream instead of working (admit it, you do that, too) and saw my friend, Zac Gordon, ask for Genesis experts to do a course. Me, being no dummy and being a big fan of being in the right place at the right time said:

@zgordon @treehouse Sure.

— Jesse Ⓦ Petersen (@jpetersen) May 27, 2014

Looking at that now, I can’t believe I saw that one week after he tweeted it. That’s a bit odd.

I met Zac in person at WordCamp Orlando 2013 and I was already familiar with Treehouse from the previous year’s WordCamp where I met another Treehouse instructor and got an account for a year. I was familiar with the quality and my mind started racing about how to teach Genesis.

Rewind nearly 15 years and you’d find me working at a local startup in Tampa doing screencasting tutorials of dozens of popular software suites from the likes of Microsoft and Adobe by decompiling their help files, creating scripts, screencasting, voiceovers, and quality control. Funny how life comes full circle on some things…

After one Google Hangout, it became clear the task was mine to lose, so I took to writing an outline and we agreed on a schedule. In September, I was their guest in Orlando for a week where I blasted out all of the in-studio camera work in the first day and spent two more days in a recording booth doing screencasting. I hung around until the next morning just in case I needed to re-record anything and headed back home for lunch.

I had a BLAST!

Here’s the behind-the-scenes video they released a few weeks ago:

You can tell I had fun, right? As exhausting as it was being extroverted for a week, I came back recharged.

So, the course is coming out very, very, VERY soon, and I wanted to be sure to give you all access to a 50% discount for your first month of Treehouse if you click this link or banner. There are plenty more WordPress courses that Zac does regularly and I may be doing another outline right now… as well as watching a course on working in the console today. One more month until WordCamp Orlando 2014 and I saw Zac will be there again, so come meet and greet.