Genesis 2.0 Framework for WordPress released
Genesis 2.0
We are really excited by the release of the brand new version of Genesis 2.0 Framework for WordPress.
Genesis 2.0 is a huge leap forward for the framework. It includes essential web standards like HTML5 and schema.org to make your WordPress website as fast, secure, flexible, and findable as it can be.
All new Genesis themes will be fully Mobile Responsive so your site looks as good on a Mobile Phone or Tablet as it does on a PC.
Brand New Design
Genesis is sporting a fresh new look.
We’ve taken advantage of the new HTML5 markup, as well as some snazzy CSS3, and we think you’re gonna love this.
HTML5 Markup
Genesis has always been on the cutting edge of web technology, and Genesis 2.0 continues in that excellent tradition.
With a single line of code in a child theme, Genesis will now output HTML5 markup in place of the old XHTML tags. Also, every theme we build in the future will be developed on HTML5.
Microdata
If you’re using a theme with HTML5 enabled, Genesis will also output your markup using microdata.
We did all the research and modified the markup to serve search engines the microdata they’re looking for, so you don’t have to. It’s good to be a Genesis user.
Removing Features
We want to keep Genesis as lightweight as possible for you, nobody wants to use bloated software.
So we’ve removed the “Latest Tweets” widget, the “eNews and Updates” widget, the “post templates” feature, and the “fancy dropdowns” setting. There are some good plugins you can grab and install, if you want to continue using those functionalities.
Boring, but Very Important
We’re always improving. Call it a sickness, but we like to make things work really, really well. Here’s a list of the technical changes in this latest release of Genesis:
- Better named loop hooks for HTML5.
- Network Upgrade now upgrades the Genesis database for all sites in a network when running WordPress in multisite mode.
- Widget classes are now coded in PHP5 format.
- Admin CSS and Javascript are now minified.
- Inline HTML comments have been removed to reduce page size.
- The Scripts option now has its own metabox when editing an entry.
- Custom Post Type archive pages now have a settings page so you can control the output.
- Genesis tracks displayed entry IDs so you can exclude entries from showing twice on a page.
- Entries without titles now display a permalink after the post content.
