I’m a tad nervous writing this post, so bear with me. 
Today (November 26th) is my 33rd birthday, and I want to celebrate it by offering something back to a community that, even unknowingly, has given me quite a lot. I’ve been a WordPress fan for years now, and it’s such a pleasure to work with it that you’d have to pry it from my cold, dead fingers before I switched to something else. Since I started using the Genesis Framework I’ve found helpful tutorials, free child themes, snippets of code and a very good vibe all around. Because of all that, I decided a while back that I wanted to try my hand at making a free child theme, and I slowly started coding it, based on Genesis’ free Sample theme.
I messed up a few times, and I learned a lot from each of the times I messed up, which was the other point of this exercise. The theme’s design changed so many times (because I started by coding home page widgets even before I went to photoshop, despite knowing that I should have done it the other way around) that I’m sure I’ll have child theme ideas to last me a while (time to make them a reality is another thing entirely), and I tossed out a ton of ideas that just weren’t working. Each taught me something, either about what I should or about what I shouldn’t be doing and, like all the steps I’ve taken in my life, each contributed greatly to the end result. Said end result is actually something I’m very proud to offer you guys, but don’t let that stop you from offering constructive criticism if you’re so inclined. I’m very thick-skinned, and I don’t think we can evolve much if we don’t take each piece of concrit (and even most not-so-con crit) as an opportunity to grow.
This has been a couple of months in the making – working on this project on my free time when the definition of free time has somehow been erased from my dictionary, coupled with me lacking the knowledge to fully complete it without the need for research (again feeding off of those invaluable tutorials and code snippets) made sure of that – and I wanted it ready for my birthday. As usual, I work best when under pressure, and it was only at the last minute that I was fully satisfied with the end result. Then I had to think the name over so many times that I ended up going with a name that I love and that I have used before on unrelated things: Nameless.
Nameless is a mobile responsive Genesis Child Theme with a widgeted home page, 7 colour styles, 6 layout otptions, fixed with, custom header and threaded comments. I’d love it if you left me a comment when you download it (it is, after all, my birthday!) and I’d love it even more if you dropped me a line to show me if you end up using Nameless anywhere. If you happen to download it and then spot something I’ve done that I really should be doing in a different way, please, please don’t be shy about telling me so – have I mentioned I love criticism?
You’ll need the Genesis Framework to run the theme and, if you don’t already have it, StudioPress is having an awesome Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale (< that’s an affiliate link, by the way). Considering they hardly ever have any sales, if you’ve been on the fence now would be a great time to get it.
This is it for now – off to sleep (at 6am) so I can be up for my birthday lunch in a few hours!
For sure is functional and very practical. Can be used for creating ever more custom layout. Cool Freebie!
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Thank you! If you use it somewhere, I’d love to see how it turned out!
Happy Birthday! Congrats on sharing a great child theme with others in the community.
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Thank you so much!
I am using Cyclone Slider2 for the slideshow because I need to use images that aren’t connected to a page or post. The shortcode won’t work in a text widget added to the responsive slider widget section. I have tried adding add_filter(‘widget_text’,'do_shortcode’); to functions.php , but it didn’t work.
I also don’t know how to add the pages in the Home left, center and right like the demo.
Sorry to ask so many questions. I am learning as I go. Thank you for the great theme!
The shortcode does work when you add that code to functions.php (I’ve just downloaded Cyclone Slider 2 to test it, and it worked), where in functions.php are you adding it?
if you add
/** Enable shortcodes in widgets */add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
between
}and/** Register Additional Sidebar Areas */it will work like a charm.The pages are added by using the Genesis – Featured Page widget, simply checkmark Show Featured Image and give it whatever title the page has (or a different title, if you prefer).
I’m glad you’re enjoying the theme!
This looks great- thanks so much for sharing!
Looking forward to giving it a go.
Best,
Kim
ps- your pinit button didn’t work when I tried to pin the post? I’m in Chrome.
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Thanks for commenting, it gives me the warm fuzzies to see people using and downloading the theme.
I’ve tested the Pin It button just now in FF and Chrome, and it seems to be working – do you remember what error you got? I’m using Jetpack for all the buttons.
Mónica recently posted…Nameless – Free Genesis Child Theme
I love this theme!!! I just started on wordpress and I’m not sure how to center the header image? Can you help?
Hi Meg – it makes me so happy that you’re loving my theme!
Can you show me which header image you’re trying to center? It’ll probably depend how wide it is what I’ll suggest you do with it.
Hi Monica, I love this theme!. I’m also trying to use the image slider with the shortcode. I followed your instructions above but it still didn’t work.. Any ideas why?
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Hi Sasha! Can you let me know what’s in your functions.php file?
Thank you!
Thank you Monica. This is a beautiful theme, love the fonts.
//Thomas