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.

Brandon Kraft

Creates a new widget to easily add mailing lists to a Genesis website. Recommended plugin in virtually all Genesis theme tutorials. The widget allows the site administrator to set the form action, e-mail form field, and hidden fields to mimic the subscribe form of other mailing list services.
<h3>Thanks</h3>
A special thanks to all who have contributed to Genesis eNews Extended.
<h4>Financial Donations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Joe Taylor</li>
<li>Dorian Speed</li>
<li>Paul Meyers</li>
<li>Joel Runyon</li>
<li>Jennifer Jinright</li>
<li>Greg Ferro</li>
<li>Greg Young</li>
</ul>
<h4>Code Contributions</h4>
<ul>
<li>Gary Jones (many, many times over)</li>
<li>Mike Hemberger</li>
<li>John Levandowski</li>
<li>David Decker</li>
<li>Kim Parsell</li>
<li>Erick Nelson</li>
<li>Nick Davis</li>
<li>Maor Chasen</li>
</ul>
<h4>StudioPress</h4>
<ul>
<li>Special thanks to Brian Gardner and the team at StudioPress who wrote the original code that provided the foundation for the plugin.</li>
</ul>
If you’re not listed and think you should be, please drop me a note. Any omission is, in no way, intentional.

Genesis eNews Extended

I love the simplicity of this plugin. Just read the form code from the service you're using, make sure you put in the action and the field names (precision is crucial) and you're good to go! Then you will need to set up, at the service itself, the pages for the confirmations and other notices.

Very simple wrapper for adding in your form action for various services

Genesis widget to add newsletter signup forms for MailChimp, AWeber, FeedBlitz, ConvertKit, and other mailing lists.

Easy Genesis (formerly Genesis Simple Customizations) vs Genesis eNews Extended