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David Decker

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<h4>New Flexibility plus Enhanced User Experience</h4>
<p>Take control over <strong>Your Archive Pages</strong> in <em>Genesis</em> again! Use the ever popular way of <em>Widgets</em> to build your own archive listing or sitemap-like content. Use up to three columns that are responsive and enable automatically. Don’t lose your archive/sitemap creations if you ever switch the <em>Genesis</em> child theme.</p>
<p>A great helper tool for <em>Genesis Child Themes</em>!</p>
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<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The plugin requires the <em>Genesis Theme Framework</em> (GPL-2.0+), a paid premium product released by StudioPress/ Copyblogger Media LLC (via studiopress.com).</p>
<p>Plus: A premium <em>PRO Version</em> of this plugin will be released in the future…! 🙂</p>
<h4>Advantages & Benefits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Avoids long pages & blog posts listings that seem to happen a lot with the default template…</li>
<li>Far more possibilities for your archive pages: different listings of site menus, various site content, authors – plus search form, images etc.</li>
<li>Make sitemap-like pages very easily – use widgets by WordPress, Genesis or third-party plugins</li>
<li>Easily customizeable for any webmaster!</li>
<li>Works across all Genesis child themes – so you can switch your “skin” but not loosing this tool 🙂</li>
<li>Support Genesis 2.0+ and HTML5 enabled child themes!</li>
<li>Ideal for multilingual websites (for example with “WPML”): Much better handling of archive-/ sitemap-like pages for different languages. — <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-widgetized-archive/faq/" rel="ugc">See bottom of FAQ section here</a> for more info on that.</li>
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<h4>General Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Small & lightweight plugin tool: Just activate plugin, place your widgets and you’re done!</li>
<li>Adds up to three new widget areas (Sidebars) for the “Archive Page Template”</li>
<li>Adds very few CSS styles for the content area to properly divide widgets with some more space (all other styling is recommended via your child theme) and to enable responsive content columns (if more than one widget area is active)</li>
<li>Customizeable via 2 action hooks: if ever needed you can add content before and after the widgetized section</li>
<li>Customizeable via 6 filters: if ever needed you can customize the widget titles and descriptions</li>
<li>Fully internationalized! Real-life tested and developed with international users in mind!</li>
<li>Fully WPML compatible!</li>
<li>Fully Multisite compatible, you can also network-enable it if ever needed (per site use is recommended).</li>
<li>Tested with WordPress versions 3.4 branch and new 3.5 branch – also in debug mode (no stuff there, ok? 🙂</li>
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<p>Please note: The plugin requires the Genesis Theme Framework.</p>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (default) – always included</li>
<li>German (de_DE) – always included</li>
<li>.pot file (<code>genesis-widgetized-archive.pot</code>) for translators is also always included 🙂</li>
<li>Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: <a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/genesis-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-widgetized-archive" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate “Genesis Widgetized Archive”…</a></li>
<li><em>Your translation? – <a href="http://genesisthemes.de/en/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Just send it in</a></em></li>
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<p><a href="http://genesisthemes.de/en/" rel="nofollow ugc">A plugin from deckerweb.de and GenesisThemes</a></p>
<h4>Feedback</h4>
<ul>
<li>I am open for your suggestions and feedback – Thank you for using or trying out one of my plugins!</li>
<li>Drop me a line <a href="http://twitter.com/deckerweb" rel="nofollow ugc">@deckerweb</a> on Twitter</li>
<li>Follow me on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/deckerweb.service" rel="nofollow ugc">my Facebook page</a></li>
<li>Or follow me on <a href="http://deckerweb.de/gplus" rel="nofollow ugc">+David Decker</a> on Google Plus 😉</li>
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<h4>More</h4>
<ul>
<li>My other ‘Genesis Widgetized’ plugins: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-widgetized-notfound/" rel="ugc"><em>“Genesis Widgetized Not Found & 404”</em></a> plus <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-widgetized-footer/" rel="ugc"><em>“Genesis Widgetized Footer”</em></a></li>
<li><a href="http://genesisthemes.de/en/wp-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">Also see my other plugins</a> or see <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/daveshine/" rel="nofollow ugc">my WordPress.org profile page</a></li>
<li>Tip: <a href="http://genesisfinder.com/" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>GenesisFinder</em> – Find then create. Your Genesis Framework Search Engine.</a></li>
<li>Hey, come & join the <a href="http://ddwb.me/genesiscommunity" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Community on Google+ 🙂</a></li>
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<h3>Plugin Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/genesis-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-widgetized-archive" rel="nofollow ugc">Translations (GlotPress)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/genesis-widgetized-archive" rel="ugc">User support forums</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/4106349" rel="nofollow ugc">Code snippets archive for customizing, GitHub Gist</a></li>
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<h3>Donate</h3>
<p>Enjoy using <em>Genesis Widgetized Archive</em>? Please consider <a href="https://www.paypal.me/deckerweb" rel="nofollow ugc">making a small donation</a> to support the project’s continued development.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>German (de_DE): Deutsch – immer dabei! <a href="http://deckerweb.de/material/sprachdateien/genesis-plugins/#genesis-widgetized-archive" rel="nofollow ugc">Download auch via deckerweb.de</a></li>
<li>For custom and update-secure language files please upload them to <code>/wp-content/languages/genesis-widgetized-archive/</code> (just create this folder) – This enables you to use fully custom translations that won’t be overridden on plugin updates. Also, complete custom English wording is possible with that as well, just use a language file like <code>genesis-widgetized-archive-en_US.mo/.po</code> to achieve that.</li>
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<p><strong>Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool:</strong> <a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/genesis-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-widgetized-archive" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Translate “Genesis Widgetized Archive”…</strong></a></p>
<p><em>Note:</em> All my plugins are internationalized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/codestyling-localization/" rel="ugc">“Codestyling Localization” plugin</a> and for validating the <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">“Poedit Editor”</a>, which works fine on Windows, Mac and Linux.</p>
<h3>Idea Behind / Philosophy</h3>
<p>I never really enjoyed the bundled “Archive” page template in Genesis. So I always wanted this template/ area a bit more easily customizeable since I first worked with Genesis! Widgets in WordPress are powerful and allow for adding really diverse and custom stuff – all in a very simple and user-friendly way. The approach of this plugin is to bring more power to the webmasters and users and help avoid other “archive” or “sitemaps” plugins and instead use the powerful tools from WordPress and Genesis that are already there. This plugin here works primarily as a ‘helper’ or ‘bridge’ plugin to just do that :).</p>


Genesis Widgetized Archive

Finally, use widgets to maintain & customize your Archive Page Template in Genesis Framework and Child Themes to create archive/sitemap listings.

Nick Diego

Outermost

<p><strong>Blox Lite is nearing the end of its life. The plugin was built to solve a problem that will soon no longer exist. The advent of block themes utilizing the Site Editor has superseded Blox Lite. Critical support will still be provided in the support forum, but the plugin is no longer being actively developed.</strong></p>
<p>Blox Lite allows you to easily customize your Genesis-powered website using content blocks. It is not a tool for changing the colors of your theme. While it can wrangle styles, think more along the lines of banner images, dynamic content areas, and custom footers. In other words, <strong>structural</strong> customization.</p>
<p>This plugin is only for Genesis Framework users. Genesis is a premium product of <a href="http://www.studiopress.com" rel="nofollow ugc">StudioPress</a>, which has no affiliation with Blox Lite.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add content locally to posts, pages, and all public custom post types</li>
<li>Add content globally to virtually any page(s) on your website, including 404 pages, search pages, and archive pages</li>
<li>Position content anywhere with your choice of 50+ Genesis hooks</li>
<li>Display a custom image or featured image</li>
<li>Display HMTL content or add scripts, CSS, iframes, and even PHP</li>
<li>Includes utility shortcodes to help you add dynamic content</li>
<li>Add an unlimited number of content blocks</li>
<li>Plugin is fully translatable (.pot file included)</li>
<li>Multisite compatible</li>
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<h4>Content options</h4>
<p>Blox Lite includes two content options, Raw Content, and Static Image. With Raw Content you can add anything to your website, whether that be raw HTML, CSS, Javascript, iframes, shortcodes, and even PHP. If you are looking to add images, such as a banner image, the Static Image option is the way to go. Add a photo directly from your media library, choose the size, add a caption, and more. The Static Image option even supports background images. This is great for setting up responsive headers or adding a parallax effect.</p>
<h4>Removing content</h4>
<p>As a general rule, Blox Lite allows you to <strong>add</strong> content. It does not remove existing content. For example, Blox Lite will easily allow you to add a custom footer to your site, but the old one will be there as well. To remove content, you will need to add the necessary PHP code to your theme’s functions.php file.</p>
<h4>Style your way</h4>
<p>Blox Lite does not include any styling aside from a small amount of default CSS for images, which can be turned off in the Settings. It is your site and we do not want to impose styling choices on you. Blox Lite will inherit most of your theme’s styling, but you will likely need to add some additional CSS. This customizability is an intended feature of Blox Lite and makes it all that more powerful. Simple questions about styling can be asked in the plugin’s support forum.</p>


Blox Lite

Author thought of everything. Love how simple it is to control where content is displayed. Thank you!

Amazing Plugin

Easily customize themes built on the Genesis Framework.

Genesis Widgetized Archive vs Blox Lite