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Simple Social Icons 2.0

Simple Social Icons is one of the most popular plugins we have built at StudioPress, and it’s currently active on more than 200,000 websites. With this plugin, you can easily choose which profiles to link to, customize the color and size of your icons, as well as align them to the left, center, or right—all from the widget form, with no settings page necessary.

Simple Social Icons by StudioPress

We are on the verge of pushing out version 2.0, which is a significant update. Props to Lauren Mancke for her work on integrating the SVGs and Nick Cernis for his work on reviewing the update and providing the snippets below.

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Important Announcement for Genesis Plugin Developers

This coming Monday, March 7th, we’ll be releasing Genesis 2.2.7 to fix some issues with WordPress compatibility, as well as fix an issue with term meta performance.

UPDATE: To give developers more time to prepare their plugins and sites, we will NOT be introducing the breaking change, outlined below, in Genesis 2.2.7. Instead, we will push it to Genesis 2.3.0. Genesis 2.2.7 will still release on Monday, March 7th, to address other bugs.

If you have built a plugin that relies on the Genesis term meta system in order to function, it’s incredibly important that you prepare your plugin for Genesis 2.2.7 2.3.0. If your plugin relies on Genesis to store and serve term meta, you will very likely receive messages from your users saying that it’s no longer working.

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Why You Shouldn’t Fear Upgrading to Genesis 2.0 When it’s Released …

Genesis 2.0 Screenshot

While we’re all still waiting for WordPress 3.6 to be released, I wanted to take a moment to write about the simple process of updating to Genesis 2.0, when it becomes available.

I’ve seen a number of comments on blogs and in social media groups where folks are expressing concerns about updating to Genesis 2.0 — concerns I hope will subside after reading this post.

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11 Essential Resources About the Upcoming Genesis 2.0 That We Think You’ll Enjoy

Earlier this week we released Genesis 2.0 Beta 2, which puts us one step closer to the stable release of Genesis 2.0. In the spirt of preparing our users for what’s coming, I wanted to share some really great posts that talk about it.

There are a lot of great features coming in Genesis 2.0, from the introduction of HTML5 markup to a new default design. Our community has done an excellent job in writing about some of the changes and things that are new.

Here’s a list of resources on Genesis 2.0 that we think you’d enjoy:

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Introducing Lauren Mancke, Creative Director of StudioPress

It’s been a few months since we’ve released a new StudioPress theme, and there’s a good reason for that … our development team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on Genesis 2.0.

If you want to see what the new default looks like, you can check it out on the Genesis demo site. We’re hoping to release the beta version within the next week or two, and then release it shortly after WordPress 3.6 drops.

Genesis 2.0 isn’t the only reason we’re happy around here at StudioPress.

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Introducing the eNews Extended Plugin for Your Genesis-Powered Website

Genesis eNews Extended Plugin

With the recent announcement that Google is shutting down Feedburner’s API, we decided to get a jump start on possible replacements for the eNews and Updates widget that is currently inside of Genesis.

While the API shut down won’t affect the functionality of the widget, we will be softly deprecating it in Genesis 1.9 and removing it entirely in 2.0.

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Meet the Genesis Developers: Part Four

Are you looking to have your site built on the Genesis Framework? Have you had a chance to see all of the amazing sites built with it? If not, take some time to check out the Theme Showcase, and you’ll see just how powerful Genesis can be.

At StudioPress, we believe in giving credit where it’s due. Genesis serves as the foundation of more than 250,000 sites, and we’d like to show you who’s behind some of the best designed sites on the internet. Below you will meet some very talented people – whom we consider friends and are among the Genesis Developers we recommend that are available for hire.

Heather Jones, Viva la Violette

Viva la VioletteI have been designing and creating websites for twelve years, and I started Viva la Violette in 2008. I’m a video game artist turned web designer, and I design using WordPress + StudioPress for my blog and web design projects. I would define my style as feminine and chic, and I love turning the web into a beautiful place one blog or website at a time.

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Introducing the Simple Social Icons Plugin for WordPress

Simple Social Icons Plugin for WordPress

I am very pleased to announce that we have released the Simple Social Icons plugin for WordPress. Simple Social Icons is an easy to use, customizable way to display icons that link visitors to your various social profiles.

With it, you can easily choose which profiles to link to, customize the color and size of your icons, as well as align them to the left or right, all from the widget form (no settings page necessary!).

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6 Stunning Genesis-Powered Websites

The team here at StudioPress works hard to constantly create the very best premium WordPress child themes on the market.

However, we often pause to marvel at what others are accomplishing through their creative uses of the Genesis Framework for WordPress.

We take our hats off to some of our favorite designs currently out there on the web that utilize the power and flexibility of the Genesis Framework and our themes.

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Download the Genesis Guide for Absolute Beginners (Free PDF)

The team here at StudioPress has put together a basic guide for you on how to navigate Genesis (as well as a good bit of WordPress), and get your site going right out of the box.

Whether you’re just starting out with the Genesis Framework for WordPress, or you’ve been enjoying its power and flexibility for a while, this download should prove very helpful.

The guide is packed with 44 pages of useful and specific instructions on getting started with Genesis, including:

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3 (More) Reasons to be Thankful for StudioPress

A few days ago I shared a link that shed some insight into the direction that we are heading here at StudioPress. There are 3 things that we’re very excited to share, so watch the video:

1. Responsive/Mobile

As we’ve already announced, StudioPress themes will be updated for responsive design which will make them mobile-friendly. Devices such as the iPhone, iPad, Android and others will be optimized for a better viewing experience without disrupting the integrity of the design you have on your site.

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