From the course: Learning Genesis for WordPress
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Theme onboarding
- [Instructor] In my years of working with WordPress one of the biggest frustrations I've seen happens when someone finds a beautiful theme, loves the demo, buys it, installs it, and drum roll, it looks nothing like the demo. This happens for two main reasons. First, you've got to already have some content, posts, pages, et cetera, on your site. The second is that every theme requires a certain amount of setup. For example, you need to create menus and assign them to a certain menu area on your site, or maybe you need to configure widgets for your sidebar, or some blocks for your homepage. So first you've got to have content, second, you've got to arrange it within the theme. Historically that's been a manual process, hence the frustration. But now there's good news. In 2019, Genesis added support for something called theme onboarding. This is a tool that automates part of the theme setup process when a Genesis child…
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