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The Cheapskate’s Guide To Free Genesis Child Themes

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One of the biggest advantages of choosing the Genesis Theme Framework is the enormous variety of child themes available for it. Each child theme gives you a unique foundation from which to change the look and feel of your site.

Having a wide variety of child themes to pick from makes the Genesis framework a great choice for building a wide variety of different types of websites from your basic blog to your next business website. Especially if you are building sites for clients or own several sites of your own.

If you were just browsing around the StudioPress website, you might get the impression that there are only premium Genesis child themes available. That’s what I thought at first too.

But if you do a little digging, you will find that there is a whole ecosystem of free Genesis child themes available for download. And some of them are quite good.

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4 Simple Steps To Boost Your Google Page Speed Score

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After my last post on the Fastest WordPress Themes, I thought the next logical step was to see what it would take to boost any site’s Page Score to as close to 100% as possible. So for this post, I decided to take a look at this site, SlickWP and see what things I could do to improve my Page Score.

What I came up with, are four actionable steps that any WordPress owner can take right now to improve their Page Score rating.

What’s the point of doing this whole exercise?

Amazon has even calculated that a page load slowdown of just one second could cost it $1.6 billion in sales each year. (source)

Slow loading websites make a bad impression on your visitors, so anything you can do to make your site load faster is worth doing.

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Top 5 Responsive Genesis Child Themes

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The Genesis Theme Framework is widely considered to be the best theme framework available for WordPress at the moment. It is easy to use (with a little practice) and very easy to maintain. But more than that, it lets you build fast, SEO friendly, secure and attractive websites. It’s popularity is also partly due to the amazing range of support and child themes available.

Now mobile devices of all sizes are taking over much of the world’s online browsing time.  Getting your website to display correctly on mobile devices can be a major task. Gone are the days where folks maintained different versions of their website for desktop vs. mobile. Now you want a website that will render correctly, no matter what device or screen size it is accessed from.

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My Top 10 Fastest WordPress Themes

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Having a highly optimized and fast WordPress theme is an important factor to consider when picking out a theme for your site. A slow website not only creates a poor user experience for your visitors, but it may also contribute in your site getting lower Google rankings then it deserves as well.

I was curious to see what were some of the fastest (and slowest) WordPress themes that I currently own and have access to. So I decided to do a simple test and try to rank them.

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Best Genesis Framework Tutorials of 2014

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One of the reasons we love the Genesis framework so much is because of the enormous amount of customizability it offers. It is perfect for the DIY site owner who loves spending time tweaking their site’s design. But for newcomers, it can be a challenge to to get started, and there is certainly a bit of a learning curve involved.

Studiopress has always maintained a nice collection of Genesis tutorials and code snippets but since the beginning, many Genesis developers and bloggers have also been sharing their experiences in the form of tutorials for doing various customizations using Genesis. It’s one of my favorite things about being part of the Genesis community.

While there have been hundreds of excellent tutorials published since the Genesis framework was first released, I really wanted to come up with a list of Genesis tutorials published this year.

Not only for the tutorials themselves, but also to see which bloggers you should be following to get the most out of the Genesis theme framework.

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