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Susan,
Thanks for the input; if you got to the point where you have your own theme then you're definitely not like us. If you are OK with a mile long custom functions and hooks then I understand your position.
About 4 years ago, as I mentioned, I started out with Thesis, it's not that different from Genesis by the way, and the custom functions file was way too long I lost track where things were and when I wanted to use the Yoast plugin, it turned out I couldn't because Thesis will not disable its SEO and the only way is to hack Thesis core files...that means after every upgrade you'd have to redo the process again. To me, that's frustrating. Left Thesis to no return!
Why do I have to seek support and Google "how to" when the theme should have all common features readily available with a click? I can understand in a situation where the feature requested requires customization (*not common), but all these popular posts and related posts by category with thumbs etc are very common now and should be built-in.
From what I can see, a lot of things require customization or a plugin in Genesis just like Thesis. At least Genesis is now responsive I doubt Thesis made the leap yet 🙂
I would like to thank you and toddlohenry for taking the time to reply, really appreciated, your replies are very useful and now I have an idea, who knows I may accept the customization part if I see that I need to use Genesis/News Pro as I will keep the research going I have time to choose.
Best wishes!
OpptrendsMembertoddlohenry,
Thanks so much for the prompt reply; I agree that Genesis is quality clean coded Framework, but I don't think that's everything. For people who are not developers and myself included, it takes a lot of frustration and customization to get the Studiopress theme to the functionality we want.
Take for example the News Pro theme, in order to get the homepage layout full width, you'd have to use custom code/css etc.. while in my current theme I can change from boxed to wide layout with one click, header ad size in News Pro is an issue and I haven't seen anywhere how to ad the adsense code, either a link or image no other choice while in my current theme I can go under header ads and either paste adsense code or any code, use a link or just publisher ID or ad ID if responsive ad and I'm done.
Support is also good although it depends on which theme you purchase. As for plugins, well, I don;t have to get anything all is built-in, again depends on the theme. SEO, I use Yoast and it's working great.
Studiopress could build a lot of generally used functionality into their themes if they wanted to grab more market share, the features mentioned above should be a walk in the park for a team like Studiopress.
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