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I'm frustrated bythe lack on information on what one should do now that Genesis 2.0 is released, and the implementation of HTML5 on existing Studiopress websites I have.
Can someone point me to a guide / walkthrough that CLEARLY marks out the steps required to update a child theme (and parent if needed) to HTML5 compatibility.
The guides out there that I have found so far are either:
Written for coders
Written poorly
Don't include ALL the informationhttp://www.studiopress.com/news/genesis-2-0-resources.htm <-- Not easy to follow, understand or implement.
Thank you.
We plan to tackle this issue by writing guides for updating some of the older StudioPress themes on our blog at http://genesisupdate.com
We haven't had a chance to publish anything yet because we've been updating sites all day, but we'll have something up by next week for sure! 🙂
I'm sure there will soon be lots of great information like the guides that FAT Media (above) will be preparing. In the meantime, here's what worked for me on a site I just upgraded in case it's helpful.
The site uses Outreach with some additions & modifications to widget areas (and, of course, lots of modifications to style.css).
I updated Genesis and, like advertised, the site looked fine afterward.
I then added "add_theme_support( 'html5' );" to my functions.php, after which, as expected, the site looked like a bomb had hit it.
Then I ran style.css through the wonderful converter at http://cobaltapps.com/genesis-xhtml-to-html5-css-converter/, after which things looked much better. There was one problem remaining: some of my widget area divs had now become children of other widget area divs--with decidedly unpleasant results.
At that point I looked through the Genesis 2.0 code. In widgetize.php I found defaults that indicated that when laying out widget areas using genesis_widget_area, one now needs to specify "aside"s instead of "divs". So in home.php I changed my "div"s to "aside"s--and my site was back to looking exactly as it had before the upgrade!
There are 2 resources that got me on the right track:
(1) a chart comparing the old XHTML mark-up in Genesis vs. the new HTML5 markup
http://my.studiopress.com/docs/genesis-markup-comparison/(2) the CSS converter that changes the code for you:
The theme I use, Optimal, had been updated to HTML5. So, I used the converter tool to update my CSS customizations, which I add to the bottom of my child theme. There was also some tweaking to my functions.php file for importing Google fonts. The theme no longer uses the @import code; the functions file now does the job.
It did take some time for me to restore the site to its previous styling using the new coding. The header and navigation areas, in particular, required some tweaking. Good luck!
Anne S. Katzeff
Designer | Artist | TeacherNo one has made a convincing argument to me WHY anyone should want to update a current site to HTML5? Seems to me that it might be easier to just start fresh with a theme already configured.
The only argument I can think of for updating is:
Just how long with the Studio Press Genesis framework support legacy (non-HTML5) themes??
Three months? Six months? A year? I hope they will at least commit to a year... but so far I've not seen any comment about this from the company... or I missed it!
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