Awesome Shortcodes For Genesis To Customise Your Theme

I have been using Genesis Framework for my blog from last 2 years. In those years I have been admiring the easiness it brings to manage the layout and design of the blog.

I have even shared my reasons to move to Genesis Framework at that point of time.

The whole concept of framework and child theme is to bring independence of design from features. Framework supply most of the required features and child theme provides the front-end design.

But no single child theme is perfect, we do install child themes and then we need to customise them to provide additional features required for the blog.

Genesis Theme do provide a way to customise the theme with the help of style.css and function.php, but the issue is if you decide to change the theme all customisations needs to be reapplied.

The only way to keep the customisations and able to change the themes without worrying is that you need to apply those customisations as a plugin.

This will make sure you do not have dependancy on the theme files.

Awesome Shotrcodes For Genesis

This is where Awesome Shortcodes For Genesis Plugin comes really handy. I have been using these short codes on my blog for some time and now I am sharing it for everybody.

The Plugin will add some of the required customisations and keep it separate from the child themes. Genesis 2.0 is a responsive framework and this plugin also extends it to new features.

Now lets see, what you can do with this plugin. This plugin adds a button in your visual editor, which will adds shortcodes to the post easily.

1. Box

You can easily add responsive boxes to your posts with this plugin. Boxes are available in six colors and can be added directly from Visual editor.

Here are sample boxes in each colour.

[asg-content-box boxcolor=”blue”]Sample Blue Box[/asg-content-box]

[asg-content-box boxcolor=”gray”]Sample Gray Box[/asg-content-box]

[asg-content-box boxcolor=”green”]Sample Green Box[/asg-content-box]

[asg-content-box boxcolor=”purple”]Sample Purple Box[/asg-content-box]

[asg-content-box boxcolor=”red”]Sample Red Box[/asg-content-box]

[asg-content-box boxcolor=”yellow”]Sample Yellow Box[/asg-content-box]

2. Buttons

You can also add buttons in your post and pages. It allows 6 colours for the buttons and you can select if you want to open it in new window.

You just need to provide button caption and link to connect to insert a button in your post.

3. Columns

It can also help you create columns in the post. Genesis comes with column support and this plugin provides an easy way to include those columns in your post.

It supports two, three, four and six columns. Here is an example of three column support:

[asg-column firstcolumn=”first” columnno=”third”] Sample Column 1[/asg-column][asg-column columnno=”third”]Sample Column 2 [/asg-column][asg-column columnno=”third”] Sample Column 3[/asg-column]

Two, four or six columns can be added in the similar manner.

4. Responsive Video

It also supports responsive video addition to the blog post. Currently it only supports YouTube, but the added videos are fully responsive and can be played on Mobile and desktop.

The video is not only responsive but also have important meta tags from schema.org. Here is an example video, you can check it on either mobile and desktop.

[youtube src=”_Qlmw2XpFiY” title=”Dashboard Widget For Google Play Music” duration=”T03M15S” thumbnail=”” description=””]

5. Code Snippet

The plugin also support Gist, which is an easy way to add code snippets to the post. You can just add the Gist code snippet with an id, just paste the id in the box and shortcode will be added to the post.

Username is an optional field, you can set it permanently in the settings page of the plugin. If you add username in settings page and on the insert box, username from insert box will take higher priority.

6. Giveaway

Awesome Shortcodes For Genesis allows you to work easily with your giveaways. You can easily setup giveaways on Punchtab and Rafflecopter, which can be easily included in your post.

7. Additional Settings

The plugin also provide an option to not load the CSS separately. You can take the css from the plugin setting page and include it in your theme style file.

How to Download The Plugin

The plugin is available free of cost to everybody and can be downloaded from WordPress.org. Just click on the button below or search it from the dashboard.

[asg-button color=”blue” link=”http://wordpress.org/plugins/awesome-shortcodes-for-genesis/” newwindow=”true”]Download Awesome Shortcodes For Genesis[/asg-button]

If you have any feedback for the plugin, you can provide it in the comments or contact us.