Fairly recently, Studiopress announced their most recent creation to the world, the Genesis Theme Framework. I’m quite taken with the idea, I have been a follower of the StudioPress themes since way back when they were called Revolution and I have been an all inclusive member for nearly as long.
I like the idea of a framework with child themes, it allows for the easy building of very effective individual themes with the solid and secure backend of a theme developed by a pro.
This site is actually built on the genesis framework, and so far I have been very impressed with it – the theme options allow for almost complete management and modification of the theme without ever touching the code, its fast, and its clean. I’m looking forward to making my own child theme for this site.
I also understand that there are plans to release a child-theme marketplace for Genesis, which I think is a brilliant idea – StudioPress are allowing other develops to build upon and profit from their themes, which will bring a huge amount of variety into the available child themes.
I can see the future of premium Wordpress themes moving towards being framework based, it allows for far better and easier modification and design, and it would allow the premium designers to create their own core and allow anyone else to make truly beautiful themes based on their work.
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