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Envy’s e-Commerce Power-Pack – WordPress, Genesis, WooCommerce & WP Clips

Envy’s e-Commerce Power-Pack
Wordpress, Genesis, WooCommerce & WP Clips

WordPress

ENVY’s e-commerce themes are Genesis child themes designed for WordPress, the benchmark in content-management systems. Installed on nearly 20% of all new websites, WordPress offers the greatest design flexibility and unchallenged support in functionality, plugins, extensions and resources.

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Genesis Framework

Genesis forms the backbone of ENVY’s e-commerce themes. Reliable performance, lightning-fast speed, streamlined SEO, airtight security (essential for e-commerce), accessibility, unlimited support and updates, are all signatures of StudioPress‘s highly revered WordPress framework.

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WooCommerce

WooCommerce by WooThemes has long been heralded as the leading e-commerce solution for WordPress websites. ENVY simply marries the e-commerce features of WooCommerce with the blogging performance of Genesis to create a powerful e-commerce theme solution.

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WP Clips

WP Clips by Krolyn is the ideal solution for customizing and extending ENVY. Add your custom code to WP Clip’s custom files or ENVY-compatible Precoded Clips from ClipBank™, and your customizations will be safe from all theme and plugin updates.

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Simple, Easy-to-Use Features!

The Theme is Simple

ENVY is designed with both the novice and developer in mind. The non-developer can easily populate the ‘as-is’ theme, while the Genesis-savvy developer will be familiar with the simple code, functions and plugins utilised by most StudioPress themes.

E-Commerce Enabled

WooThemes‘s popular WooCommerce plugin offers the ENVY themes a function-rich e-commerce solution. Benefit from Woo‘s security and reliability, in addition to an enormous range of available e-commerce extensions and plugins.

Home Slider

ENVY e-commerce themes seamlessly integrate StudioPress‘s Genesis Responsive Slider to feature all your special promotions and sales at the top of the home page. ENVY PRO also comes with options for a full-page or fixed-size slider, and is code-ready for the inclusion of an HTML sales flash for immediately grabbing your customer’s attention.

Home Featured Products & Posts

All of your most important content is seen as soon as your customer (or internet bot) hits the page!

Sticky Header

ENVY’s header and menus remain on-screen unless the mobile responsive drop-down menu is active.

Added Widget Areas

Both themes include ‘featured products’, ‘featured posts/pages’, and ‘Call-to-Action’ widget areas on the home page, plus a site-wide ‘Logos/Sponsors’ (ENVY) or ‘Categories’ (ENVY PRO) section above the footer. ENVY PRO also includes a separate ‘featured pages’ section on the home page.

Power-Packed Plugins

ENVY integrates WooCommerce via Genesis Connect, while the theme also benefits from StudioPress‘s list of endorsed plugins including Genesis Responsive Slider, Genesis Simple Sidebars, Genesis eNews Extended and Simple Social Icons.

Tasteful Color Styles

Each theme comes with 6 tasteful color styles, including green, orange, purple, pink, blue, with a teal default color on ENVY and red on ENVY PRO. ENVY features an additional dark-blue option which satisfies accessibility requirements.

Five Responsive Layouts

There are 5 fully-responsive layout options, including a new topbar widget area above the main content. No more widgets dropping to the bottom of the page on small-screen devices!

Two Menu Locations

ENVY themes include a store menu and responsive main menu within the header. ENVY PRO also includes tertiary menu location beneath the header.

Accessibility Support

Both themes take full advantage of Genesis 2.2 accessibility support, including semantic heading structure, responsive drop-down menus and skip-links.

Translation-Ready

ENVY themes are translation-ready.

100% Validation

Latest versions of ENVY & ENVY PRO pass ThemeCheck validation with 100%.

Safely Customize Genesis Child Themes with WP Clips

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Original article – http://wpclips.net/safely-customizing-genesis-child-themes-wp-clips/

CUSTOMIZING GENESIS – A QUESTION OF ‘BEST PRACTICE’

Some time ago, I stumbled upon on a YouTube video entitled “How to Safely Customize Your Genesis Child Theme”, in which Katrinah (katrinah.com) explained how to customize Genesis child themes using secondary custom files to protect customizations from theme updates.

As a fellow Genesis user and third-party developer, I saw Katrinah’s tutorial as a helpful resource for the Genesis community. However, I recently happened upon the video again to find the original content removed and several comments taking issue with adding secondary files over editing theme files directly. StudioPress support also weighed in, stating that Best Practice is to edit theme files directly because Genesis child themes do not get updated.

Well, this might be true of StudioPress themes. However, many Genesis child themes DO get updated, in particular themes from third-party developers which integrate frequently-updated plugins (e.g. WooCommerce). And, plugin updates often necessitate theme updates.
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Envy Pro Version 1.1 Released (Major Update)

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ENVY PRO Version 1.1 has been released (update from v1.0.3), and although classified as a major update, there are only a handful of changes; including modified top padding on subpages when using a custom header-image, and an adjustment to positioning of the sales flash to prevent a horizontal scrollbar on smaller screens.

So, why call it a Major Update?  Well, the main.js file, which regulates the header and full-window slider functions, has been completely reworked. Some ENVY PRO users had noted a ‘jump’ delay in loading sub-pages. This was because the entire page required loading (including images) before setting the page displacement to allow for the fixed header. The ‘jump’ can never be totally removed, however it is now accelerated and less noticeable as the displacement is set well before the full page is loaded. Add a page caching plugin for further efficiency. Read More ➝