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StudioPress Tutorials for Small Business Owners

StudioPress Setup Guide for Small Business

Helping you get your StudioPress website setup faster. I provide simple, practical advice for small business owners.

There are three ways to get a StudioPress website…

StudioPress theme info.

Genesis Pro Subscription info.

Free theme with hosting info.

StudioPress Core Skills

Many StudioPress themes work in the same way. To add content to your homepage you add widgets to widget areas.

WordPress comes with many widgets. And Genesis has built in widgets such as the featured post widget. Some plugins have their own widgets. So if you’ve installed plugins on your website, you might have extra options.

Setting up the homepage of many StudioPress themes is all about widgets and widget areas.
Mai Themes are different

Mai Themes have changed the way Genesis homepages are set up. If you choose Mai Lifestyle Pro or Mai Law Pro themes, you have many more page building options.

StudioPress Core Skills

StudioPress Tutorials – The Genesis Newbie

“StudioPress Tutorials for friends of the Genesis Framework” When I started using The Genesis Framework and StudioPress themes, there were a few things I didn’t understand. I made a note of them and documented what I learned. I made these Genesis Framework and StudioPress tutorials to help you get your site set up with an …

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StudioPress Setup Wizard

StudioPress provide a solid foundation that grows with your business. The StudioPress setup wizard helps you setup sites faster. The faster & easier way to setup StudioPress themes StudioPress sell great WordPress themes at a sensible price. But serious bloggers and web professionals needed a faster way to get started using their StudioPress theme or Pro Plus Pack. I’ve got a lot of practical …

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StudioPress Web Hosting Review

Get a StudioPress theme & solid hosting from a …

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Best StudioPress theme for WooCommerce?

Are you struggling to find the best StudioPress …

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How to build a Genesis Child Theme using Dynamik Website Builder

Build your own Genesis child themes with Dynamik …

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StudioPress & WP Engine

A great solution for businesses of all sizes.

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Can you really build your own website?

If you’re a competent computer user you can build a great looking WordPress website yourself. All you need to do is carefully follow the instructions, and keep it simple.

Show Me How
Extra Tips

Advanced Tips And Third Party Plugins

This is a list of tutorials that new Genesis users might view as advanced. And tutorials about some third party plugins you might find useful.

For instance, if you want to know more about the Genesis Grid Loop, adding new widget areas or the simple hooks plugin. You might find these tutorials useful.
The easiest way to do things

Many Genesis users like to do everything using code. But there are some great alternatives for building page layouts and post listings that don’t require any code. You just need to choose the right plugins. So I’ve listed some plugins that you might find useful in this archive too.

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StudioPress Setup Wizard

StudioPress provide a solid foundation that grows with your business. The StudioPress setup wizard helps you setup sites faster. My whole site is designed to be a StudioPress Setup Guide for Small Business, I hope you find the tutorials and videos useful.

The faster & easier way to setup StudioPress themes

StudioPress sell great WordPress themes at a sensible price. But serious bloggers and web professionals needed a faster way to get started using their StudioPress theme or Pro Plus Pack. I’ve got a lot of practical experience with the Genesis Framework and StudioPress themes. So I decided to help.

StudioPress Setup Wizard

How Philip’s StudioPress setup wizard works

You will need

  • A demo site to practice on. I recommend using Bitnami or Xampp local hosts.
  • The Genesis Framework and Your chosen child theme.
  • The Widget Importer & Exporter (.wie) files. I have made these for you.
  • Website content. Use your own content, my content or the demo content from your StudioPress theme.

Have you got all these things downloaded onto your desktop and ready to use? Great, let’s get started.

The industry Standard for WordPress Themes

Why I specialise in setting up StudioPress themes…

  • StudioPress themes cater for most types of small business.
  • All StudioPress themes are built on the rock solid Genesis Framework.
  • You can buy excellent plugins to help you modify and adapt the Genesis Framework and StudioPress themes to your needs. These plugins help you change things like theme colours or home page layouts relatively easily.
  • Genesis provides a long term, secure and frequently updated foundation that grows with your business. If your business grows into a super brand, simply contact one of StudioPress’s trusted Developers and commission a completely bespoke design for your web site. Your site would already be built on WordPress and the Genesis Framework so making the move to a completely bespoke design, commissioned from a top notch Genesis Developer, is that much easier.

Who needs a StudioPress theme

Copywriters, designers, coaches and trainers of all kinds. In fact StudioPress themes are ideal for any small business that sells their skills or services.

Who is the StudioPress Setup Wizard designed for?

  • Serious bloggers
  • Web design agencies
  • Freelance WordPress professionals

I made the StudioPress Setup Wizard for people who already have a good basic understanding of, and practical experience with WordPress.

If you can already use WordPress and want to get started using the StudioPress Pro Plus Pack or a theme designed by StudioPress.

This guide is for you.

* The StudioPress Setup Wizard currently covers themes designed by StudioPress BUT not third party themes. Most third party themes supply their own .xml and .wie files.

Looking for a StudioPress theme or hosting?

Check out the two links below…

Get Genesis Framework & StudioPress Themes free.

When you sign up for a WP Engine plan, you receive the Genesis Framework and 36 StudioPress Themes free. That’s over $2,000 in value.

Free themes with hosting
Get Premium WordPress Themes

Buy a StudioPress theme outright and use it on all of your sites. There are three ways to get all of the StudioPress themes AND save.

Choose Your Theme

Web Hosting

If you’re in the market for premium web hosting from a team you trust why not checkout WP Engine. It’s designed to be Fast, Secure & Worry Free!

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