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Building a Genesis Child Theme

A question I hear all the time is "how do I build a child theme?" This is a tutorial that walks through my process, using an actual client site as an example.

I recently wrote a long and detailed post on Blogging.com covering how to build a Genesis child theme .

It's a question I'm asked often and I think it's a tutorial that's been missing.

Here's my general process:

  1. Create a subdirectory on my site for this project
  2. Install WordPress and Genesis
  3. Build all the site’s functionality into a child theme
  4. Use CSS to make the outputted markup match the provided design
  5. Send it to the client for review

The tutorial covers creating the child theme that has all the site's functionality (step #3). Please take a look and let me know what you think in the comments over there.

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