David Decker

deckerweb

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<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.

wpautobahn

<h4>New Flexibility plus Enhanced User Experience</h4>
<p>We all know that sometimes 404 Errors happen on our sites. And sometimes users search but get no results. I believe it’s better to serve users some highly customized and maintained pages/content areas for these cases. What better to do that with Widgets in WordPress? — In my opinion Genesis Framework could improve here so that’s why I just made this little plugin to FINALLY have these two cases maintainable EASILY via your widgets admin. Just place in a search widget, your last blog posts, an image widget, some explanation via text widget, some galleries… You got it. The possibilities are endless. Finally.</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Customize Genesis 404 Page and Search Not Found Page - With Genesis Widgetized Not Found Plugin" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0RJldBSH_fA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Just a great helper tool for Genesis Child Themes!</p>
<p><strong>Please note:</strong> The plugin requires the <em>Genesis Framework</em>, a paid premium product released by StudioPress/ WPEngine, Inc. <a href="https://deckerweb.de/go/genesis/" rel="nofollow ugc">(via studiopress.com)</a></p>
<h4>What the Plugin Does – Advantages & Benefits</h4>
<ul>
<li>Helps users stay longer on your site because you can give options like search form, recent posts, introductory text, image(s) etc.</li>
<li>Hugely improved user experience! (Helps decrease the “Oops, I broke the internet…” experiences…)</li>
<li>Easily customizeable for any webmaster! — In Widgets admin or in Customizer > Widgets</li>
<li>Works across Genesis child themes – so you can switch your “skin” but not loosing this tool 🙂</li>
<li>Provides <em>extra Search Form Widget</em> with more options than the default WordPress core widget.</li>
<li>Handy search form Shortcode!</li>
<li>Ideal for multilingual websites (for example with “WPML”): Much better handling of 404/Not found content for different languages. — <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-widgetized-notfound/#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 widgets and you’re done!</li>
<li>Adds a new widget area (Sidebar) for the “404 Error Page”</li>
<li>Adds a new widget area (Sidebar) for the “Search not found” page (if there are no results for a search term)</li>
<li>Adds a new Search Form Widget – which gives you more options than the default WordPress “Search” widget! (Search text, Submit text etc.)</li>
<li>Adds 2 Shortcodes: a customizeable Search form to place anywhere Shortcodes are supported, plus Shortcode for this plugin’s widget areas.</li>
<li>Special Bonus for bbPress 2.3+: make the forum search not found content/status widgetized – take full control!</li>
<li>Adds a few CSS styles for the content area to properly divide widgets with some more space (all other styling is recommended via your child theme)</li>
<li>Included are two handy helper functions (via child theme) for applying the Genesis ‘Full-Width’ layout option for one or both ‘not found’ cases! — <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-widgetized-notfound/#faq" rel="ugc">See the FAQ section for more info on that!</a></li>
<li>For developers & advanced users: plugin provides lots of filter and acton hooks throughout for easy customization if ever needed.</li>
<li>All markup is fully compatible with Genesis 2.0+, that means for HTML5 if the child theme supports it (is done all automatically & conditionally under the surface!).</li>
<li>Integrated default Genesis filters <code>genesis_search_text</code> and <code>genesis_search_button_text</code> for default strings :-).</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>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (default, <code>en_US</code>) – always included</li>
<li>German (<code>de_DE</code>) – always included</li>
<li>German formal (<code>de_DE_formal</code>) – always included</li>
<li>Spanish (<code>es_ES</code>) – user-submitted – currently 37% complete for v1.5.0</li>
<li><code>.pot</code> file (<code>genesis-widgetized-notfound.pot</code>) for translators is also always included 🙂</li>
<li>Easy plugin translation platform with GlotPress tool: <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/genesis-widgetized-notfound" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate “Genesis Widgetized Not Found & 404″…</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Liked Genesis Widgetized Not Found & 404?</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/genesis-widgetized-notfound/reviews/?filter=5/#new-post" rel="ugc"><strong>Rate us 5 stars</strong> on WordPress.org</a> 🙂</li>
<li>Join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/deckerweb.wordpress.plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Facebook User Community Support Group</strong></a></li>
<li>Like our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/deckerweb.wordpress.plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Facebook Info Page for Deckerweb Plugins</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://eepurl.com/gbAUUn" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Subscribe to my Newsletter for insider info on this plugin</strong></a>, plus tutorials and more stuff on deckerweb WordPress plugins – join a thriving community of site builders!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Check out my other Genesis Plugins</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-extra-settings-transporter/" rel="ugc"><strong>Genesis Extra Settings Transporter</strong></a> – addionally export Genesis specific plugin & child theme settings</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-whats-new-info/" rel="ugc"><strong>Genesis What’s New Info</strong></a> – Show the what’s new overview page via left-hand admin menu</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-layout-extras/" rel="ugc"><strong>Genesis Layout Extras</strong></a> – Setup Default Layouts in Genesis for WordPress</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/deckerweb/genesis-shortcode-ui" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Shortcode UI (for Shortcake)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/deckerweb/genesis-elementor-canvas" rel="nofollow ugc">Genesis Elementor Canvas</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-featured-page-extras/" rel="ugc">Genesis Featured Page Extras</a> – more options for the featured page widget</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-prose-extras/" rel="ugc">Genesis Prose Extras</a> – add-on for Prose child theme</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-printstyle-plus/" rel="ugc">Genesis Printstyle Plus</a> – just print it out – only what’s needed</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-widgetized-archive/" rel="ugc">Genesis Widgetized Archive</a> – easily set up content for your Archive page (template)</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-widgetized-footer/" rel="ugc">Genesis Widgetized Footer</a> – easily set up your copyright/ credits/ back to top</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-connect-edd/" rel="ugc">Genesis Connect for Easy Digital Downloads</a> – plugin for easy & elegant integration</li>
<li><a href="https://eepurl.com/gbAUUn" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>My Genesis plugins newsletter</em></a></li>
</ul>
<h4>My Other WordPress Plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/toolbar-extras/" rel="ugc"><strong>Toolbar Extras for Genesis & Elementor – WordPress Admin Bar Enhanced</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/toolbar-extras-oxygen/" rel="ugc"><strong>Toolbar Extras for Oxygen Builder – Add-On plugin</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/builder-template-categories/" rel="ugc"><strong>Builder Template Categories – for WordPress Page Builders</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/connect-polylang-elementor/" rel="ugc"><strong>Polylang Connect for Elementor – Language Switcher & Template Tweaks</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpdr-simple-downloads/" rel="ugc"><strong>Simple Download Manager for WP Document Revisions</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-toolbar-additions/" rel="ugc">Multisite Toolbar Additions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/cleaner-plugin-installer/" rel="ugc">Cleaner Plugin Installer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://eepurl.com/gbAUUn" rel="nofollow ugc"><em>My plugins newsletter</em></a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Donate</h3>
<p>Enjoy using <em>Genesis Widgetized Not Found & 404</em>? <a href="https://www.paypal.me/deckerweb" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Please consider making a donation</strong></a> to support the project’s continued development.</p>
<h3>Plugin Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/genesis-widgetized-notfound" rel="nofollow ugc">Translations (WP GlotPress Platform)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/genesis-widgetized-notfound" rel="ugc">User support forums</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gist.github.com/deckerweb/2473125" rel="nofollow ugc">Code snippets archive for customizing, GitHub Gist</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/deckerweb.wordpress.plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">DECKERWEB WordPress Plugins Facebook Group</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Idea Behind / Philosophy</h3>
<p>I always wanted the 404 and search not found content easily customizeable! The standard messages like “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.” are a shame and lame user experience. Widgets in WordPress are powerful and allow for adding really diverse and custom stuff. So, when building my “Autobahn” child theme for Genesis I really came across this idea and technique. I also implemented it in a lot of my client projects. Now I am really happy to represent this tool in form of a plugin to make more webmasters and especially users/visitors really happy – and help them stay longer on your site!</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Thanks to Genesis User & Blogger <a href="https://twitter.com/RickRDuncan" rel="nofollow ugc">Rick R. Duncan @RickRDuncan</a> for mentioning and supporting this plugin when it came out – Thank you! 🙂</li>
<li>Any other blog post or something cool about this plugin? – Just contact me 🙂</li>
</ul>


Genesis Widgetized Not Found & 404 – Easy Setup for 404 Page and Search Not Found

Finally, use Widgets to maintain and customize your 404 Error and Search Not Found pages in Genesis Framework and Child Themes.

Genesis Widgetized Footer vs Genesis Widgetized Not Found & 404 – Easy Setup for 404 Page and Search Not Found