Studiopress announces that Genesis 1.8 Beta is now available for users to test. The update boasts several new features including a new default look for Genesis. Studiopress also dded 2 media queries to the style sheet, which makes it mobile responsive for devices such as the iPad and iPhone.
Many other new features have been added, you can check out the Genesis 1.8 changelog to see a number of things were fixed, added and modified. One of the biggest features that we’ve added is the Color Styles function.
Many of our child themes have color styles, which are currently being made available by code that’s included in the child theme’s function file as well as an additional file found within a ‘lib’ folder.
The new code that is required in the child themes would look like this:
/** Create additional color style options */
add_theme_support( ‘genesis-style-selector’, array( ‘agentpress-gray’ => ‘Gray’, ‘agentpress-green’ => ‘Green’, ‘agentpress-red’ => ‘Red’, ‘agentpress-tan’ => ‘Tan’ ) );
As with all functions that end up being placed into a number of child themes (custom header, footer widgets, etc) we’ve extracted that code out of them and placed it in to Genesis core.
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