• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Feast Design Co.

WordPress Themes for Food & Lifestyle Bloggers

  • Themes
  • Feast Plugin
  • Blog
  • Support
  • Tutorials
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Twitter

Feast Design Co. » How To Customize Your WordPress Themes » Genesis Child Themes

Genesis Child Themes

Foodie Pro is the number one selling Genesis child theme. Loved for it's simple, minimalist design that makes your content the star of the page, it's trusted by thousands of foodie and lifestyle bloggers around the world.

Years of fine-tuning and refining Foodie Pro has made it the most well-supported theme, and the feedback and lessons learned from our customers has led to the development of other child themes that incorporate these features.

What is the Genesis Framework?

The Genesis framework (by Studiopress) provides a basic set of best-practice settings and configurations for WordPress, helps bloggers stay on top of updates and changes without needing to be an expert, and allows for customization with child-themes.

You can find an overview document from Studiopress here.

Install Genesis Parent Theme for WordPress

To install Genesis and a child theme, you need to:

  1. Navigate to Admin -> Appearances -> Themes
  2. Select "Add New" (near the top)
  3. Click "Upload Theme" (again, near the top)
  4. Click "Choose File"
  5. Find and select the Genesis zip file
  6. Click "Open"
  7. Click "Install Now"
  8. Do not activate the theme
  9. Click "Return to Themes Page"
  10. Click "Add New" (near the top)
  11. Click "Upload Theme" (again, near the top)
  12. Click "Choose File"
  13. Find and select the Genesis zip file
  14. Click "Open"
  15. Click "Install Now"
  16. Activate your theme by hovering over it and clicking "Activate"

What are "Parent" and "Child" Themes?

In a normal wordpress setup, there's simply a "theme" which contains both the stylistic and functional elements that make the blog look nice. WordPress is a multi-purpose platform however, being used not only for blogs but also membership sites, ecommerce stores, businesses and directories. This means that they need to be generic by necessity, which limits their usefulness.

Genesis is a "parent" theme.

Studiopress offers the Genesis theme, which comes with some customizations and functionality that make blogging easier and more straight-forward for the non-techy blogger. It makes WordPress more blogger-friendly. It's labeled as a "framework", as it provides a skeleton "framework" that designs can be built upon, which offering a consistent set of configurations that help manage the website and stay on top of changes in the code-base.

Designers and programmers that really understand the WordPress core and it's shortcoming gathered around this "framework" to build themes that are compatible with it, providing design and aesthetics. These adopted the name "child themes", language common to design, which indicates that their functionality is inherited (is preserved) from the "parent" - Genesis.

Our themes - Foodie Pro, Brunch Pro, Cook'd Pro, Cravings Pro, Seasoned Pro - are "child" themes, which stylize the Genesis framework and are specifically catered to help foodie bloggers make their recipes look better.

To you, this means that you need to spend less time with technical issues (thanks to Genesis), and don't need to be an expert designer (thanks to our expert designers) with our themes. You can jump right into running a blog that shares your unique recipes, personal style and attitude, and start earning revenue.

Reader Interactions

Primary Sidebar

How To Customize Your WordPress Themes

  • Why is troubleshooting so complex?
  • Disable Google Fonts
  • How Do I Set Up My Navigation Menu?
  • Can I Use Multiple Recipe Index Pages?
  • Customization Library
  • Add a Before Entry Widget Area
  • How to Create Multiple Recipe Index Pages
  • How to Add the Featured Posts Category Index
  • How to Add the Visual Category Page Index
  • How to Change the Background Color of the Genesis eNews Widgets
  • Plugins to Install
  • Recipe Index: Content Configuration (Cravings Pro + Seasoned Pro)
  • Cravings Pro Theme: Setup Your Navigation Menu
  • WordPress Settings
  • How to Change the Header Size
  • Seasoned Pro Tutorials
  • How to Create Multiple Recipe Index Pages
  • Food Blog Home Page Pagination
  • Install Theme, and Import Demo Content and Widgets
  • Why we're not supporting Gutenberg Oversized Images
  • Troubleshoot Plugin Conflicts
  • How Do I Update the Theme Version?
  • Remove Search Box from Navigation Menu
  • Font Size for Food Blogs
  • Image Alt Tags
  • Pinterest for Food Bloggers
  • How to Launch Your Food Blog
  • How to Set a Favicon
  • Why we don't support the read more tag
  • Setup a secondary navigation menu
  • How to clear your cache
  • Foodie Pro Tutorials
  • Brunch Pro Tutorials
  • Cook'd Pro Tutorials
  • Cravings Pro Tutorials
  • All About Featured Images
  • FAQ for All Themes
  • Add Google Analytics Tracking Code
  • Customization Referrals
  • Enable SSL for HTTPS on your Food Blog
  • Genesis Child Themes
  • How to Start a Food Blog
  • Make Thumbnails Square or Rectangle, and Sizing
  • Set Up Your WooCommerce Shop in Genesis
  • The parent theme could not be found. You will need to install the parent theme, genesis, before you can use this child theme
  • Food Blog Theme Features Comparison
  • Translate Language Support in Wordpress, Genesis and Foodie Pro
  • Use <!--nextpage--> to Add a Page Break
  • Use Inspect Element to Troubleshoot Whitespaces

Free 5-Day Branding Design Challenge

With this actionable 5-part challenge, you'll have just the digital design strategies you need for a profitable website... and best of all, it's free. Signup and get your first challenge delivered immediately!

Footer

Take An Insta-Peek

instagram feed

Topics

  • Food Blog Design and Appearance
  • Productivity
  • Tech and Plugins
  • Food Blogging and Promotion
  • Minimalist WordPress Themes
  • Simple WordPress Themes

Help

  • Documentation & Tutorials
  • Food Blogging Resources
  • Open A Support Ticket
  • Your Account
  • Discounts and Coupons

Company

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Principles and Best Practices
  • Affiliates
  • Contact
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2019 · Feast Design Co.
Results not typical or guaranteed. Our themes and plugins are just a small part of the overall effort involved in running a food blog. Nothing on this website shall constitute legal or financial advice, always consult a local lawyer and accountant.

×
  • Themes
  • Feast Plugin
  • Support
  • Tutorials
  • Blog

Modern Mobile Menu Social icons

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Twitter