Hi All transferring to magazine theme

[raykev]

Hi

I am new on here and new to Genesis. I currently have a site with custom theme and would like to change it a little and use magazine theme.

I have a list of plugins that I would like to know if there is any issues with the plugins working on your theme. The plugins are as follows-

Contact form 7- Ok as I use it on another site with your theme
Cookie Control- Ok
Facebook for Wordpress-?
Google xml sitemap for images-?
Google xml sitemaps-?
mailchimp-?
Mappress Easy Google Maps-?
Meteor Slides-Will probably use your slide plugin.
PHP exec-not sure why thats there I will check with my dev
Post ratings-?
Simple Ads Manager-Works fine on another site
Simple rss feeds widget-?
Spammer Blocker-?
/wordpress seo Yoast-?
wp-jquery-lightbox-?
WP-PageNavi-?
WP SlimStat-?
WP Super Cache-?
WP to Twitter-?

If you could let me know of any better/replacement or not needed plugins that would be very helpful.

My site is www.shootreview.com and has been going for a couple years and getting reasonable traffic so I would rather not have to start again with it as I have a lot of content.

And if someone could point me to an "idiots guide to generate box".

Any advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Mark

[SoZo]

There's no way of knowing whether or not you will have conflicts with a plugin until activating the theme and the plugin.

And Magazine doesn't include a "generate box".

[raykev]

Thanks for the unhelpful reply. I realise that Generate box does not come with Magazine but it is available on the resources page. I was looking for a simple guide to installing and using it on another theme. I have searched the tutorials but cannot seem to find many actual tutorials.

If you could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated as I would like to get to grips with one or two more things before I go and buy the full package or any more of the excellent themes available. One of the reasons I payed for Genesis was the promised support .
Kind regards

Mark

[thebluegger]

Generate Box - tutorial.

Would this work for you?

http://www.briangardner.com/newsletter-signup-box/

[raykev]

Thanks thebluegger

I think I might have a go at that. It would be great for tutorials like that to be made for the resources on Genesis and put in tutorials part of the forum.

I will have a practise on a test site as like I said I am new to this and not great at coding. If you know of any other great simple to follow tutorials please let me know. I have multiple sites to build and a few to swap over to Genesis so all the help and advice I can get would be really appreciated.

Kind Regards

Mark

[thebluegger]

No worries Raykev,

They have quite a few tutorials in the forums, and in the Studiopress resources sections.

Also, there are a lot of tutes available on the net. Some users post their code snippets etc. If I find something that maybe useful to you, I'll post it. :)

http://www.briangardner.com/ Brian Gardner's site has a lot of useful code snippets and tutorials. Although, they are mostly related to, how he customized his personal site.

Some other sites I've stumbled upon:

designsbynickthegeek.com

genesistutorials.com

wpsmith.net

http://gregrickaby.com/

I'm sure there are loads more available. These are some of the sites that I've been to and remember at the moment.

Hope they are helpful. :)

P.S: Having a test site is a good idea.