Genesis Child Theme – Modifying Markup

[Gandt]

Hey there

I am trying to make a custom Genesis Theme and for that, I want to modify the html structure output. I see a lot of unnecessary divs and other elements that I wish to remove. I want to make it so that my child theme runs on my own, simplified html structure, yet I was unable to found a tutorial that spoke directly about how to do this.

How would I go about doing things like:

1.- Removing .content-sidebar-wrap and .site-inner entirely
2.- Changing the .wrap class to .container
3.- Changing a sample content section from 3 div-layers deep to just one or two, etc.?

As it stands, the html structure of many themes is quite bloated. I have been unable to find a single article pointing to the nuts and bolts of how to modify the html output, what/how id's and classes are assigned to each element, etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Regards G

[Victor Font]

If you want to change the very foundation of the Genesis Framework that much, you should probably not use the Genesis framework at all. Genesis is designed the way it is to provide the best SEO advantages, speed and structure available without going through a lot of custom coding. Personally, if I were to buy a child theme, I would want one built to work with the Genesis Framework as designed. Maybe you should look up the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

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[Gandt]

Victor

I am sorry you find the idea of changing certain aspects of the html structure such an unnecessary hassle.

However, the benefits of such minute changes are more than worth the bother for me:

1.- Less css for greater changes
2.- Simpler css for responsiveness
3.- Reusable html+css base for practically anything theme-related.

After 8 years of coding sites from scratch, both html and css, I figured, if the point of WordPress and Genesis is to optimize production speed and save you the real hassle of doing everything from zero when you can just automate steps, then why not apply the same logic to an html structure I feel I could improve?

Genesis is much more than .inner or #content-sidebar-wrap, so let us not over-react.

Having said that, any pointers towards locating the files that generate said output would be greatly appreciated.

Gandt

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