Doug Yuen

The Easy Genesis plugin allows you to make many customizations and setting changes to your Genesis-powered site, without having to write custom code. You must be using version 2.2 or higher of the <a href="https://efficientwp.com/genesis" title="Genesis theme framework" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis theme framework</a>.
IMPORTANT: Easy Genesis 2.2 and 2.3 Updates
<ul>
<li>Fixed deprecated function bug causing conflict with Beaver Builder</li>
<li>Fixed bug with upgrade not saving old settings (If you upgraded to version 2.0 or 2.1, and saved any settings, you may need to redo some settings. If you are upgrading from a previous version you won’t have to worry about this.)</li>
<li>Fixed bug with featured image icons not showing up</li>
</ul>
IMPORTANT: MAJOR UPDATES WITH VERSION 2.0
<ul>
<li>Changed plugin name to Easy Genesis</li>
<li>Changed backend menu location to top-level instead of under Genesis menu</li>
<li>Introduced free extension – Pages</li>
<li>Introduced premium extensions – Extras and Blog </li>
<li>Removed featured image support on pages and display category descriptions, since these are part of Genesis now</li>
<li>Combined Read More links into one option</li>
<li>Added new features: custom favicon, custom default gravatar, custom image sizes</li>
<li>Requires Genesis 2.2 or higher</li>
<li>Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 4.4.2</li>
</ul>
Options Available:
<ul>
<li>Remove “(Edit)” Link from Frontend</li>
<li>Display Featured Image on Pages</li>
<li>Display Featured Image on Posts</li>
<li>Custom Search Box Text</li>
<li>Custom Search Button Text</li>
<li>Custom “Read More” Text</li>
<li>Custom After Post Code (shortcodes allowed)</li>
<li>Remove Post Info (above content)</li>
<li>Remove Post Meta (below content)</li>
<li>Remove Footer Entirely</li>
<li>Remove Secondary Navigation from Top of Header</li>
<li>Add Secondary Navigation to Bottom of Header</li>
<li>Remove Genesis Favicon</li>
<li>Custom Favicon (URL)</li>
<li>Custom Default Gravatar (URL)</li>
<li>Custom Google Fonts (URL)</li>
<li>Add Custom Image Sizes</li>
</ul>
Free Extension: <a href="https://efficientwp.com/products/easy-genesis-pages" title="Easy Genesis - Pages Extension" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Genesis – Pages Extension</a>
This extension allows you to universally remove titles across your pages, and display the featured image (if there is one) at the top of your pages. You may need to write custom CSS to style the featured image the way you want.
Premium Extension: <a href="https://efficientwp.com/downloads/easy-genesis-extras-extension" title="Easy Genesis - Extras Extension" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Genesis – Extras Extension</a>
This extension allows you to customize the display of your navigation menus, add content to the beginning and end of your navigation, edit your footer, force sidebar layouts for different page templates, and customize your breadcrumbs.
Premium Extension: <a href="https://efficientwp.com/downloads/easy-genesis-blog-extension" title="Easy Genesis - Blog Extension" rel="nofollow ugc">Easy Genesis – Blog Extension</a>
This extension allows you to make changes to your post info, post meta, in-post navigation text, archive navigation text, display featured images, display content above your blog page template, and more.
Coming Soon:
<ul>
<li>Comments extension</li>
<li>Featured image styling in the Pages and Blog extensions</li>
</ul>
Created by EfficientWP. <a href="https://efficientwp.com/products/easy-genesis" title="Easy Genesis" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin page</a>.

Easy Genesis (formerly Genesis Simple Customizations)

Easily make many customizations and setting changes to your Genesis-powered site, without having to write custom code.

marksabbath

Nathan Rice

StudioPress

WP Engine

Nick C

Jen Baumann

curtismchale

Calvin Koepke

studiograsshopper

This plugin replaces WooCommerce’s built-in shop templates with its own Genesis-ready versions, specifically the <code>single-product.php</code>, <code>archive-product.php</code> and <code>taxonomy.php</code> templates needed to display the single product page, the main shop page, and Product Category and Product Tag archive pages.
To allow easy customization of these templates, and ensure that you do not lose your customizations when the plugin is updated, you can place your own copies of these templates in your child theme’s ‘woocommerce’ folder and customize these copies as much as you like. You can also create your own <code>taxonomy-{taxonomy}.php</code> and <code>taxonomy-{taxonomy}-{term}.php</code> templates in the same location and this plugin will find them and use them to display your shop’s Product Category and Product Tag archives. See the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy#Custom_Taxonomies_display" rel="nofollow ugc">Template Hierarchy</a> to learn more about naming requirements for taxonomy templates.
Additionally, the plugin makes <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-simple-sidebars/" rel="ugc">Genesis Simple Sidebars</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-simple-menus/" rel="ugc">Genesis Simple Menus</a> compatible with WooCommerce.
This version is compatible with WooCommerce 3.3+
<h4>Technical Info</h4>
For more technically minded users, this is what the plugin does:
<ul>
<li>Unhooks the WooCommerce template loader function</li>
<li>Adds its own template loader function to control the templates used by the single product, archive product and Product Category and Product Tag (taxonomy) archive pages.</li>
<li>Adds Genesis Layouts and SEO support to the WooCommerce <code>Product</code> custom post type</li>
<li>Provides three Genesis-ready templates to display the shop pages, located in the plugin’s <code>templates</code> folder:
<ul>
<li>single-product.php</li>
<li>archive-product.php</li>
<li>taxonomy.php</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>These templates use WooCommerce core functions to display the shop loops which:
<ul>
<li>unhook WooCommerce’s built-in breadcrumbs</li>
<li>unhook the Genesis Loop and replace it with the relevant WooCommerce shop loop</li>
<li>remove WooCommerce’s #container and #content divs, which are not required or wanted by Genesis</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The shop loop function in each template is heavily based on its WooCommerce counterpart, but has been modified to accommodate certain Genesis features such as the Taxonomy term headings and descriptions feature.</li>
<li>The templates contain the <code>genesis();</code> function and therefore are fully customisable using Genesis hooks and filters.</li>
<li>The template loader allows users to use their own templates in the child theme’s ‘woocommerce’ folder. These user templates, if they exist in the child theme’s `woocommerce’ folder, will be loaded in place of the supplied Genesis Connect for WooCommerce templates</li>
<li>Using appropriate filters, modifies the Genesis breadcrumbs output to mimic the breadcrumb structure provided by WooCommerce’s built-in breadcrumbs.</li>
</ul>
<h4>More about breadcrumbs</h4>
By default, the Genesis breadcrumbs do not provide the same breadcrumb structure as those built-in to WooCommerce. Genesis Connect for WooCommerce modifies the normal Genesis Breadcrumbs output on shop pages to mimic the structure of those built-in to WooCommerce.
Note that the templates provided in this plugin automatically unhook WooCommerce’s built-in breadcrumbs via this code in each template: 
 remove_action( ‘woocommerce_before_main_content’, ‘woocommerce_breadcrumb’, 20 );
<h4>Filters</h4>
This plugin provides some filters which may be useful for developers.
<pre><code>genesiswooc_custom_query
</code></pre>
Located in <code>gencwooc_single_product_loop()</code> in <code>templates/single-product.php</code>. 
The filter callback function should return a query object or false.
<pre><code>gencwooc_product_archive_crumb
</code></pre>
Located in <code>gencwooc_get_archive_crumb_filter()</code> in <code>lib/breadcrumb.php</code>. 
Allows further modification of the single product page breadcrumbs.
<pre><code>gencwooc_single_product_crumb
</code></pre>
Located in <code>gencwooc_get_single_crumb()</code> in <code>lib/breadcrumb.php</code>. 
Allows further modification of the product archive (shop page) breadcrumbs.
<h4>More info about WooCommerce CSS handling</h4>
For the benefit of theme developers and customizers, here is a summary of possible scenarios for dealing with WooCommerce CSS:
<ul>
<li>Case 1: If the WooCommerce > General settings > Enable WooCommerce CSS option is checked, the default stylesheet supplied with WooCommerce will be loaded (see <code>wp-content/plugins/woocommerce/assets/css/woocommerce.css</code>).</li>
<li>Case 2: If WooCommerce > General settings > Enable WooCommerce CSS option is unchecked, no stylesheet is loaded.</li>
<li>Case 3: If the user (or theme developer) sets <code>define( 'WOOCOMMERCE_USE_CSS', true );</code> in the child theme functions.php the options setting is ignored and the default WooCommerce stylesheet is loaded, ie has same effect as checking the settings box.</li>
<li>Case 4: If the user (or theme developer) sets <code>define( 'WOOCOMMERCE_USE_CSS', false );</code> in the child theme functions.php the options setting is ignored and NO stylesheet is loaded, ie has same effect as unchecking the settings box. Note: the value of WOOCOMMERCE_USE_CSS always takes precedence over the WooCommerce Settings page option!</li>
<li>If either Case 1 or Case 3 applies, if themes/my-child-theme/woocommerce/styles.css exists it will be loaded in place of the default woocommerce stylesheet (plugins/woocommerce/assets/css/woocommerce.css).</li>
<li>If either Case 2 or 4 applies, as no built-in stylesheet is loaded, all WooCommerce CSS styles need to be added to the theme’s main style.css stylesheet</li>
<li>Note for Genesis child theme developers: For new themes, theme developers can use <code>define( 'WOOCOMMERCE_USE_CSS', false );</code> and place all WooCommerce styles in the theme’s main stylesheet, or do nothing and let the user handle this via Case 1 or 3.</li>
<li>The above information is based on WooCommerce 1.4.4</li>
</ul>

Genesis Connect for WooCommerce

This plugin allows you to seamlessly integrate WooCommerce with the Genesis Framework and Genesis child themes.

Easy Genesis (formerly Genesis Simple Customizations) vs Genesis Connect for WooCommerce