David Decker

deckerweb

<blockquote>
<h4>New Flexibility plus Enhanced Webmaster Experience</h4>
<p>Changing the footer ‘Copyright/Credits’ & ‘Return to Top’ in Genesis is already easy with the use of Genesis Footer Shortcodes or some other plugins. However, it COULD still be much easier and more flexible with Widgets in WordPress! This plugin just achieves that, and at the same time keeping full <a href="http://my.studiopress.com/docs/shortcode-reference/#footer-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Shortcodes</a> support for the footer section! <em>Yes, it’s that cool! 😉</em></p>
<p>You can use up to two widget Areas! Place one – full-width then – or two (one third/two thirds then) and get back the flexibility you’ve wanted for this area! Manage your copyright/credits stuff the way YOU want it, without messing up your ‘functions.php’ file… Just place in a text widget with copyright stuff, another one with logos and/or affiliate links, an additional search widget, recent posts widget, some explanation via text widget… You got it. The possibilities are endless. Finally.</p>
<p>A great helper tool for Genesis Child Themes!</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The plugin requires the <em>Genesis Theme Framework</em>, a paid premium product released by StudioPress/ Copyblogger Media LLC (via studiopress.com).</p>
<h4>Advantages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Hugely improved webmaster/site owner experience! (Helps decrease the <em>Mmh, how do I customize this footer thing…?</em> experiences)</li>
<li>Easily customizeable for any webmaster: Fully WordPress widget flexibility plus full Genesis Footer Shortcodes support!</li>
<li>No more messing up with ‘functions.php’ file and forget the risk of breaking your child theme way too often…</li>
<li>Developers: Hand this to your clients who want to customize their footer THEMSELVES, there’s no easier tool for that in Genesis!</li>
<li>Included Disclaimer Widget Area for special disclaimer/imprint needs – fully optional, though!</li>
<li>Works across Genesis child themes – so you can switch your “skin” but not loosing this tool 🙂</li>
<li>Ideal for multilingual websites (for example with “WPML”): Much better handling of footer/disclaimer content for different languages. — <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-widgetized-footer/faq/" rel="ugc">See bottom of FAQ section here</a> for more info on that.</li>
</ul>
<h4>General Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Small & lightweight plugin tool: Just activate plugin, place your widget(s) and you’re done!</li>
<li>Replaces Genesis #footer content area with with up to two Widget areas (Sidebars)!
<ul>
<li>PLEASE NOTE: Not to be confused with the “Footer Widget Areas” which normally come in columns and belong to the #footer-widgets div container ID. This plugin here only changes the regular footer content within the #footer div container ID, the other ‘Footer Widgets #1 etc.’ keep untouched!</li>
<li>What that means: Manage your copyright and/or disclaimers also widget-based from now on – easy to use and to change! — Indepentendly from this, manage your other regular #footer-widget areas in your child theme (most come with these by default).</li>
<li>If you only place something into ONE footer widget area (no matter ‘Footer Area #1’ or ‘Footer Area #2’) it will be full-width!</li>
<li>If you place something into the two footer Widget areas TOGETHER they will change their width: ‘Footer Area #1’ is first from left and will have 33% width (one third), ‘Footer Area #2’ is second to left and will have 66% width (two-thirds). Both values and the float could be overridden via child theme stylesheet (using ‘!important’)</li>
<li>Adds a few CSS styles for this footer content area to properly divide widgets with some more space (all other styling is recommended via your child theme)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Included is an additional Widget area called “Footer Disclaimer”, this is placed below the #footer div container ID and absolutely optional. Only if you place a widget in there it displays content!
<ul>
<li>Features full-width plus a real small font-size for disclaimer/ imprint purposes.</li>
<li>Included are 2 Shortcodes: one handy Shortcode for last updated date for your site; plus Shortcode to display any of the plugin’s 3 Widget areas (if active) into Shortcode-aware content areas.</li>
<li>Included helper function to place this at the very bottom (genesis_after hook) — <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-widgetized-footer/faq/" rel="ugc">See FAQ section here</a> for more info on that.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Child theme compatible: Out of the box it should work really fine with all official child themes by StudioPress pluss all Community/Marketplace child themes from studiopress.com
<ul>
<li>Includes support for both versions of “Prose” 1.0/1.5.x (has repositioned footer!)</li>
<li>Includes support for “Metro” 1.0 (has repositioned footer!)</li>
<li>Includes support for “Pretty Young Thing” 1.0/1.1 (has another footer function)</li>
<li>Includes support for “Modern Blogger” 1.0 (has another footer function)</li>
<li>Includes support for “AgentPress” 2.x and “RealPro” 1.0 – the plugin’s disclaimer widget degrades gracefully as “AgentPress” 2.x and RealPro 1.0 have built-in their own.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Resonsive Design of child themes is supported (i.e. keeps untouched!).</li>
<li>Landing Pages via page templates are supported since plugin version 1.2+, that means: ‘Footer Area #1’ or ‘Footer Area #2’ not there in the footer! (Custom disabling via constant is possible, see FAQ here!)</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 3.3 branch versions and 3.4 branch versions – also in debug mode (no stuff there, ok? 🙂</li>
</ul>
<h4>Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (default) – always included</li>
<li>German (de_DE) – always included</li>
<li>.pot file (<code>genesis-widgetized-footer.pot</code>) for translators is also always included 🙂</li>
<li>Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: <a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/wordpress-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-widgetized-footer" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate “Genesis Widgetized Footer”…</a></li>
<li><em>Your translation? – <a href="http://genesisthemes.de/en/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Just send it in</a></em></li>
</ul>
<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>
</ul>
<h4>More</h4>
<ul>
<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"><em>Genesis Community on Google+</em> 🙂</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/genesis-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-widgetized-footer" rel="nofollow ugc">Translations (GlotPress)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/genesis-widgetized-footer" rel="ugc">User support forums</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/2497456" rel="nofollow ugc">Code snippets archive for customizing, GitHub Gist</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Donate</h3>
<p>Enjoy using <em>Genesis Widgetized Footer</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-footer" 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-footer/</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-footer-en_US.mo/.po</code> to achieve that.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool:</strong> <a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/wordpress-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-widgetized-footer" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Translate “Genesis Widgetized Footer”…</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/extend/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>For some client projects I had the request to build the footer stuff with widgets – additional to the optional footer widgets in #footer-widgets container. Better than to implement this in every child theme, I thought of making this into a plugin. So it can be used for almost all Genesis child themes. Once it was done, I also added a fully optional Disclaimer widget area so that it is possible to add more disclaimer/ legal/ imprint/ copyright stuff with a much smaller font presentation. Now, that’s a round thing and I hope it will help some users to better maintain their footer stuff ;-).</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Thanks to all users and supporters of the plugin!</li>
<li>Thanks to all reviewers who actually used the plugin and then gave a good rating. I really appreciate that 🙂 THANK YOU!</li>
</ul>


Genesis Widgetized Footer

Finally, use widgets to edit the Footer area ('Return to Top' plus 'Copyright/Credits') in Genesis Framework and Child Themes.

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<h4>FINALLY: Add a Widgetized Homepage to Your Prose Child Theme</h4>
<p>Finally have a homepage template for Prose that’s widgetized! Plus, it works with Prose 1.5+ auto update system, that means, you don’t lose your home template/ widget stuff when performing these sweet auto updates!</p>
<p>In general, a great helper tool for the <em>Prose Child Themes for Genesis</em>!</p>
<p>In other words, THE add-on plugin you’ve waited for if you’re a die hard Prose fan 🙂</p>
</blockquote>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> This plugin requires the Genesis Theme Framework AND the “Prose” Child Theme – both are premium products by StudioPress/ Copyblogger Media LLC via studiopress.com.</p>
<h4>Video of Plugin’s Settings Walkthrough:</h4>
<p><span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ltcw5fgNFnY?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltcw5fgNFnY" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>original video link</strong></a> <em>by plugin developer David Decker</em></p>
<h4>General Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><em>Up to 15 additional admin setting options for Prose 🙂</em></li>
<li><em>Up to 17 different new features for Prose powered sites 🙂</em></li>
<li>Widgetized homepage template, with up to 3 widget areas (one on top; two more below, 2-column-style) </li>
<li>Optional extra Sidebar (widget area) for this homepage.</li>
<li>Layout setting for the homepage (only if <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-layout-extras/" rel="ugc">“Genesis Layout Extras”</a> plugin is not active)</li>
<li>Optional: remove Footer Widgets on home page/ static front page.</li>
<li>Optional: up to 5 different positions for the navigation menus – Primary Navigation & Secondary Navigation.</li>
<li>Optional: add menu descriptions to both, Primary & Secondary Navigation menus.</li>
<li>Optionally remove the (default) “After Post” widget area.</li>
<li>Optionally display a “Prose After Page” widget area after content on single pages.</li>
<li>Custom CSS meta box on inpost edit screens – by default for posts & pages (devs could add post type support!) — especially handy for unique styles for singular posts/ pages (to avoid Prose’ global Custom CSS and/ or body/ post classes)</li>
<li>Conditionally loading of “a better Custom PHP” file (located in /wp-content/uploads/prose/) because the default “Custom PHP” section in Prose settings doesn’t work most of the time (wrong priorities etc., seems to fire way too late…).</li>
<li>Some Shortcodes for the “adventurous” users among you… 🙂</li>
<li>Hooking the plugins settings into Genesis Export/ Import admin section, allowing you export/ import for this plugin alone or combine plugin settings with Prose and/ or Genesis settings to transfer settings from one Genesis/ Prose site to another.</li>
<li>Adding a monospace font for the Prose “Custom Code” section to improve Code readability.</li>
<li>Adding a warning message & short explanation on the “Theme Editor” admin pages for “Prose” child theme – as editing “Prose” core files will result in lost additions/ customizations on auto updates!</li>
<li>Fixes small CSS issues with Firefox Browser on some textareas and input fields in Prose & Genesis admin settings pages. (I am happy to remove this ASAP after Genesis devs fixed that 🙂</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multisite Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><em>Plugin is fully Multisite compatible!</em></li>
<li>Optional for Multisite installs: load site-specific functions files for each sub-site in a Network where Prose is a network-activated child theme. (In lots of cases this is more handy & developer friendly than the use of Prose’ “Custom Code”.) — Consider this little site-specific functions files.</li>
<li>Conditionally loading of “a better Custom PHP” also fully Multisite compatible — consider that a global “functions file” for Prose for all Multisite sites/ sub sites.</li>
<li>NOTE: Multisite setting only available within Multisite installs and for user role/cap of “Super Admin”!</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translation Features (i18n)</h4>
<ul>
<li><em>Plugin is fully internationalized and comes with English and German language packs by default!</em></li>
<li>Load translations for Prose (backend & frontend) – won’t be overridden on Prose auto updates!</li>
<li>Prose child theme translations for German included – in formal and informal version!</li>
<li>NOTE: Translation setting only available for non-English installs (based on <code>WPLANG</code> constant).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advantages & Benefits</h4>
<ul>
<li>All of the above features WILL NOT be overridden on Prose auto updates! All is safe and controlled by the plugin – the “Prose” child theme folder (‘/wp-content/themes/prose/’) is NEVER touched by this plugin! So, relax and do your 1-click auto updates, we’ve all come to love :-).</li>
<li>User friendly I: Easy to setup and use — builds on top of already awesome Genesis and Prose features.</li>
<li>User friendly II: Help texts included on admin screens, and WordPress help tab system integrated.</li>
<li>Developer friendly with lots of action hooks and filters, to additionally customize things via the above alternatives for functions files or via third-party plugins.</li>
<li>And, have more fun: With Sidebars, Layouts, Menus, Widget Areas…</li>
</ul>
<h4>Useful for:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Prose fans who are passionate about Auto Updates for their favorite child theme :).</li>
<li>Clients who love Prose Design Settings but need more control, especially for the home page!</li>
<li>International clients that need their Prose stuff translated but keep translations on Prose updates.</li>
<li>Agencies/ Developers working with Prose for clients and want to speed up their dev time and have portability of settings.</li>
<li>Super Admins using Prose as network-activated child theme for numerous (sub) sites within their network install.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> This plugin requires the Genesis Theme Framework AND the “Prose” Child Theme – both are premium products by StudioPress/ Copyblogger Media LLC via studiopress.com.</p>
<h4>Plugin Localization</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (default) – always included</li>
<li>German (de_DE) – always included</li>
<li>.pot file (<code>genesis-prose-extras.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-prose-extras" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate “Genesis Prose Extras”…</a></li>
<li><em>Your translation? – <a href="http://genesisthemes.de/en/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">Just send it in</a></em></li>
</ul>
<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>
</ul>
<h4>More</h4>
<ul>
<li>My ‘Genesis Widgetized’ plugins: <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-widgetized-notfound/" rel="ugc"><em>“Genesis Widgetized Not Found & 404”</em></a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-widgetized-archive/" rel="ugc"><em>“Genesis Widgetized Archive”</em></a> plus <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/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>
</ul>
<h3>Plugin Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/genesis-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-prose-extras" rel="nofollow ugc">Translations (GlotPress)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/genesis-prose-extras" rel="ugc">User support forums</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/deckerweb/5905929" rel="nofollow ugc">Code snippets archive for customizing, GitHub Gist</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Donate</h3>
<p>Enjoy using <em>Genesis Prose Extras</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-prose-extras" 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-prose-extras/</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-prose-extras-en_US.mo/.po</code> to achieve that.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool:</strong> <a href="http://translate.wpautobahn.com/projects/genesis-plugins-deckerweb/genesis-prose-extras" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Translate “Genesis Prose Extras”…</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/extend/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>“Prose” is an AWESOME child theme for Genesis with great design options. Period. With version 1.5, released in spring of 2012 it became even better, with adding the auto update feature, for example. Being a cool feature, it has also the effect of removing everything that’s within the Prose child theme folder when performing the update. So you would lost a homepage template file (home.php) if you customized & added one. To resolve this issue and to have “some workaround” plus adding some tiny additions to Prose I just made this plugin. It was born out of experiences of some of my client sites using the Prose child theme. I use Prose also on a Multisite install for different sub sites and needed special functions files features myself, so I thought this might help other users as well ;-).</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>WordPress trainer <a href="https://twitter.com/bobwp" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Bob Dunn</strong></a> of <a href="http://www.bobwp.com/" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>BobWP</em></a> for his <a href="http://www.bobwp.com/creating-a-custom-homepage-in-the-prose-child-theme-with-2-genesis-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">post plus video tutorial for setting up a widgetized home page and slider for Prose with this plugin</a>! — Whoa, this is awesome stuff, THANKS, Bob!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>British Genesis Community contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/WMWebDes" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Keith Davis</strong></a> of <em>WM Web Design</em> for his <a href="http://www.wmwebdesign.co.uk/about-wm-web-design/" rel="nofollow ugc">“Genesis people” feature about me</a>, also mentioning this plugin — THANKS, Keith!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Australian Genesis Community contributor <a href="https://twitter.com/wpsitesdotnet" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Brad Dalton</strong></a> of <em>WPSites.net</em> for his <a href="http://wpsites.net/web-design/home-page-slider-prose-theme/" rel="nofollow ugc">post about setting up a slider for Prose with my plugin</a> — THANKS, Brad!</p>
</li>
</ul>


Genesis Prose Extras

Additions for the Prose Child Theme for Genesis Framework: Widgetized Homepage, layouts, menu positions, translation loading, plus various helpers.

Genesis Widgetized Footer vs Genesis Prose Extras