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WordPress Plugins add functionality to a WordPress Website. Many are free, some have upgrade options after you upload the plugin. Be careful about adding too many plugins as they can slow down your website. Here is a list of Genesis Plugins that were created to work with Studiopress Themes.
Genesis Portfolio Pro
Genesis Portfolio Pro by Studiopress adds a “Portfolio” post so you can create portfolio entries containing images and galleries to display visual content.
A Portfolio grid is created in the default template displaying a landscape of featured images. Controlling the galleries, text, and images is done in a simple page edit.
Simply find the Portfolio menu, click ‘Add New’ and add your images. Once you have a few of these, your work will be displayed in a grid.
You can find this by going to your Plugins, Add-New, Search or click here to download.
AgentPress Listings
The agentpress Listings plugin is for real estate websites. It uses custom post types, custom taxonomies, as well as widgets that create a listings management system. Using the taxonomy creator, you can categorize listings the way you like.
See: AgentPress Pro Theme
Genesis Author Pro
The Genesis Author Pro plugin allows you to add a book library so you can display details in a variety of views.
Genesis Connect for WooCommerce
You can easily integrate your website with WooCommerce if you have the Genesis framework and a child theme using the Genesis Connect for WooCommerce Plugin.
Genesis Responsive Slider
This plugin lets you create a simple responsive slider to display the featured image, as well as the title and excerpt from each post.
Genesis Simple Edits
This plugin is for those that want to modify footers, post-meta, and post-info on a website that uses the Genesis framework. There is no longer a need to understand coding to edit these areas.
Genesis Simple Hooks
This plugin builds a new Genesis settings page that lets you insert code, attaching it to any of the action hooks that are part of the Genesis Framework. There is no need to create functions in your theme files. Genesis Simple Hooks plugin offers an attractive, easy-to-use interface for modifying your Genesis theme via the hook system.
Genesis Simple Menus
The Simple Menus plugin lets you assign WordPress navigation menus to the secondary navigation menu that is part of the Genesis Framework on a per post, per page, and per tag/category archive basis.
Genesis Simple Share
The Genesis Simple Share plugin adds beautiful share buttons to your website that uses a Genesis child theme.
Genesis Simple Sidebars
This plugin offers a way to create multiple, dynamic widget areas to display in sidebar locations within the Genesis Framework on a per post, per page, or per tag/category archive basis. It uses conditional logic to properly assign them to sidebar locations that would be complicated for a beginner.
Genesis Tabs
This plugin provides for a way to build tabbed sections with widgets to display the featured image, title, and excerpt from each post. Select which categories you want to feature in the tabbed section, which post elements you want to be displayed, and save the widget. Put he widget in the feature section of a website with a Genesis child theme.
SEO Data Transporter
The seo Data transporter plugin allows you to transfer the SEO data (such as title tags and meta descriptions) from one of your websites to another.
Simple Social Icons
Customize social icons that are displayed on your website. Choose the social profiles they link to and select from various colors and sizes. Change the alignment easily to display on your Genesis Child Theme.
Simple URLs
Manage your URLs easily. Track outbound links from your website using custom post types and 301 redirects.
Social Profiles Widget
This plugin helps you insert icon links to your social profiles in a widget area. By easily dragging this widget into your sidebar or any widgetized area, you can simply put icon links to your various social profiles such as Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and YouTube.
Genesis Design Palette Pro
This plugin allows you to quickly and easily modify the look of each area of your site without touching any code. This is a 3rd-party plugin and is not supported by Genesis or studio press.
Genesis eNews Extended
This plugin provides the widget used throughout your website to gain subscribers. I use Convertkit on my blogs and KEAP or my training company.
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