Genesis Style Select
Permits users to quickly and easily change style sheets with the Genesis framework themes
The facts
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 21 Jan 2012
- Added
- Jun 2010
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 3.3.2
- Downloads
- 11,898
Our analysis
AI-assistedGenesis Style Select is a WordPress plugin that adds a menu box to the Genesis theme settings. This feature allows users to select from various Genesis style sheets located within the child theme folder.
It is particularly useful for child themes that include multiple style sheets, enabling different sites in a multisite environment to have distinct appearances without affecting one another. The plugin requires the Genesis Theme Framework to function.
Best for: This plugin suits users of the Genesis theme framework looking to customise child themes with multiple styles.
What it does well
- ✓Adds a menu box to Genesis theme settings
- ✓Allows selection from multiple style sheets
- ✓Useful for multisite environments
- ✓Simplifies theme customisation for child themes
- ✓Requires the Genesis Theme Framework
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in January 2012
- •Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2
- •Directory score of 38/100 indicates potential issues
- •Limited information on user experience or support
Verdict
Genesis Style Select provides a straightforward way to manage style sheets in Genesis child themes, though its age and low directory score may raise concerns for some users.
From the developer
Nick the Geek's own description of Genesis Style Select, lightly tidied.
This plugin adds a new menu box to the Genesis theme settings. This menu box allows users to easily select from any Genesis style sheets within the child theme folder.
This is useful for child themes that come with multiple style sheets, such as the Agent Press Child theme 1.0, or in a multisite environment using WPMU, or WP 3.0+ with networking enabled. In such an environment each child theme could have multiple style sheets allowing multiple sites to use the child theme with significantly different appearances, while not affecting the other sites.
This plugin requires the Genesis Theme Framework
Special Thanks
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to all the folks at StudioPress, their themes make my life easier.
This plugin is about 98% better because of two people.
Ade (http://www.studiograsshopper.ch) who gave me some good tips including the suggestion that the drop down list be populated automatically based on what is in the theme folder. I was about to make people type that in so things are about 99% easier because of that idea.
Nathan Rice (http://www.nathanrice.net/) who made that autopopulated drop down list a reality before I even saw the suggestion. He also made the Genesis check work in his plugin “Genesis Simple Hooks” and gave me permission to use that in this plugin.