Plugins for Genesis Users

Checkout the following plugins designed to be used for the Genesis Framework.

IMPORTANT: You must have Genesis installed for most of these plugins. Click here to purchase Genesis

  1. AgentPress Listings: This plugin creates a listings management system for AgentPress child themes, from StudioPress.
  2. Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search: Version: 2.0.3 This plugin adds convenient search fields to provide easy access to the codex, wpbeginner, WordPress support forums and common wp-admi
  3. Enhanced Latest Tweets Widget: Enhanced Latest Tweets Widget allows you to display a certain number of tweets from a specified hashtag (and/or to limit it to a specified user).
  4. Genesis – Comment Title: Change the default Genesis Comment Title. Requires the Genesis theme framework
  5. Genesis Admin Bar Plus: Adds resource links related to the Genesis Framework to the admin bar.
  6. Genesis Beta Tester: This plugin lets you one-click update to the latest Genesis release, even if it's still in beta.
  7. Genesis Custom Backgrounds: This plugin provides the option to select a default custom background.
  8. Genesis Dashboard News: This plugin adds a new dashboard widget to your WordPress Admin that pulls in the some recent (worldwide) news about the Genesis Theme Framework.
  9. Genesis Favicon Uploader: Adds a theme option page to genesis to allow the user to upload a favicon without ftping into the themes folders. - The Genesis Theme Framework is Re
  10. Genesis Featured Grid: Genesis Featured Grid adds a Genesis Featured Grid widget with grid layout functionality
  11. Genesis Featured Images: This plugin sets a default image for post thumbnails for the Genesis framework.
  12. Genesis Featured Widget Amplified: Genesis Featured Posts with support for custom post types, taxonomies, and so much more
  13. Genesis Footer: This plugin allows you to modify Genesis-powered-website footer via Genesis theme settings.
  14. Genesis Footer Widgets: This plugin adds 3 footer widgets to Genesis 1.6 and higher.
  15. Genesis Hooks: Automatically displays Genesis structual hook names in the browser for all pages.
  16. Genesis Inline: An inline front page post editor for Genesis. Works with GenesisConnect & BuddyPress.
  17. Genesis js / no-js: Make front-end styling easier for child themes on the Genesis Framework based on whether JavaScript is enabled or not.
  18. Genesis Layout Extras: This plugin for Genesis Framework allows modifying of default layouts for homepage, various archive, attachment, search, 404 pages via theme options.
  19. Genesis Layout Manager: This plugin allows you to modify Genesis Theme Framework layout for homepage, singular, archive, search, and 404 pages via Genesis theme settings.
  20. Genesis Nav Menu Amplified: Genesis Menu options with custom menu, categories, pages, and primary/secondary nav extras.
  21. Genesis Post Teasers: This plugin uses the genesis grid loop function to display posts teasers either on your Homepage, Archives, or Blog Template and gives added options t
  22. Genesis Press Post Type: The Genesis Press Post Type plugin creates a "Press" custom post type and a display widget for adding media bookmarks to any child theme wri
  23. Genesis Print Style: This plugin adds a printer-ready CSS file for the Genesis Theme Framework.
  24. Genesis Printstyle Plus: This plugin is adding a printer-ready stylesheet file for the Genesis Framework and its currently active child theme.
  25. Genesis Promotion Box: This plugin allows you to add a promotion box after a single post in Genesis.
  26. Genesis Prose Exporter: This plugin hooks Prose settings into Genesis Exporter.
  27. Genesis Simple Breadcrumbs: Genesis Menu options with custom menu, categories, pages, and primary/secondary nav extras.
  28. Genesis Simple Comments: Genesis Menu options with custom menu, categories, pages, and primary/secondary nav extras.
  29. Genesis Simple Defaults: Simple Defaults allows you to set some of the more common default items in Genesis Theme Frameworks
  30. Genesis Simple Edits: This plugin lets you edit the three most commonly modified areas in any Genesis theme: the post-info (byline), the post-meta, and the footer area.
  31. Genesis Simple Headers: This plugin lets you use the WordPress Appearance -> Header functionality to upload a custom logo or header for your site using the Genesis Theme F
  32. Genesis Simple Hooks: This plugin creates a new Genesis settings page that allows you to insert code (HTML, Shortcodes, and PHP), and attach it to any of the 50+ action hoo
  33. Genesis Simple Menus: With Genesis, Simple Menus allows you to select a WP menu for secondary navigation on posts, pages, categories, tags or custom taxonomies.
  34. Genesis Simple Sidebars: This plugin allows you to create multiple, dynamic widget areas, and assign those widget areas to sidebar locations within the Genesis Theme Framework
  35. Genesis Single Post Navigation: Plugin adds next & prev nav links on single posts to have a "browse post by post nav style". Use of Genesis Theme Framework is required.
  36. Genesis Slider: This plugin allows you to create a simple slider that displays the featured image, along with the title and excerpt from each post.
  37. Genesis Social Profiles Menu: This plugin adds a stylesheet for social profile icons for the WordPress custom menu - recommended for the use with Genesis Framework child themes.
  38. Genesis Style Select: Permits users to quickly and easily change style sheets with the Genesis framework themes
  39. Genesis Subpages as Secondary Menu: Replaces the manually managed Secondary Menu with one that automatically lists the current section's subpages. You must be using the Genesis Fram
  40. Genesis Tabs: This plugin allows you to create a tabbed section, via a widgets, that can display the featured image, along with the title and excerpt from each post
  41. Genesis Toolbar: The toolbar plugin adds a powerful row of buttons below each contact, and a whole lot more!
  42. Genesis Toolbar +: WordPress Toolbar addition full of information for the Genesis Framework.
  43. Genesis Translations: Translate your Genesis powered WordPress site into one of the available languages.
  44. Genesis Visual Hook Guide: Find Genesis hooks (action and filter hooks) quick and easily by seeing their actual locations inside your theme.
  45. SEO Data Transporter: This plugin allows you to transfer your inputs SEO data from one theme/plugin to another.

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AgentPress Listings

The AgentPress Listings plugin uses custom post types, custom taxonomies, and widgets to create a listings management system for AgentPress child themes.

You can use the taxonomy creation tool to create your own way of classifying listings, and use those taxonomies to allow users to search for listings.

Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search

This simple plugin enhances the default WordPress admin bar by adding a new menus that includes search fields for searching the Codex, wpbeginner.com, WordPress support forums, plugins repository, themes repository etc. Links and search fields to common areas in wp-admin (posts, pages, users, custom post types, plugins, media, settings) are included in the drop down menu when you are not in the WordPress admin area.

If that's not enough link goodness for you, the plugin now has the option for a custom WordPress menu in the WordPress Admin Bar. (Props to @wpsnipp - http://wpsnipp.com/) If you go to wp-admin/nav-menus.php you'll see a theme location, "Admin Bar Custom Navigation Menu" where you can attach a custom menu.

Other plugin features:

  • if you use the Genesis theme framework, a custom Genesis menu can be added to the admin bar. (for more enhanced functionality regarding Genesis admin bar menus, see GaryJ's excellent plugin, Genesis Admin Bar Plus)
  • Includes option for a dashboard widget that conveniently displays info about the currently active theme.
  • Turn wpbeginner.com search and WordPress support forums search on/off.
  • Turn on/off admin bar features on the front-end or the admin side.