Comments on: Genesis vs Woo Themes Complete Comparison

By: Deepak Singla

Deepak Singla — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 05:49:33 +0000

Good post though.
Genesis is good to use. But you can also use TemplateToaster owing to its flexibility and its compatibility with major CMSes. Try it once and see the results.Other frameworks such as headway, cherry can also be considered.

By: Ged Ward

Ged Ward — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:17:09 +0000

Ive been using genesis but i must say its more for developers than the layman on the street with no coding experience. Looked at headway but thats more of a website builder rather than a blog

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Sat, 17 May 2014 02:12:39 +0000

Thank you for this post. I needed to know the difference between Woo and Genesis SEO, and you tipped the scales for me. Your technical research helped me a lot. Thanks again.

By: Mario

Mario — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 00:22:12 +0000

In reply to Mark McIntyre.

I too have been doing tons of research since 8BIT gave notice of the end of Standard.

I’ve been playing around w/ Genesis 2.0 and it seems promising. There’s going to be a bit of a learning curve to be able to do everything that I can do w/ Standard in Genesis, but it’s a solid theme framework. Uses hooks for everything, but I think I’m leaning more towards Genesis than Woothemes’ Canvas.

Canvas looks pretty solid too, but it may be a bit too options heavy. However, if you’re building Woocommerce based sites, might be the way too go.

I’ve also played w/ Pagelines DMS. I really like it, but I found it difficult to work with anything custom post types or taxonomies since you can’t manually create page templates like template-custompage.php. It ignores them and instead you create them through the front end with “Sections”. However, it does utilize Bootstrap. Still looking into it.

I’m sticking with Standard for now. Should be relevant for a while still, perhaps they’ll open source it on Github. Jason Bradley made a great child theme implementing Bootstrap 3.

Hope that helps.

By: Mark McIntyre

Mark McIntyre — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:30:22 +0000

I’ve been running Standard 3.0 on my site, but since 8Bit pulled the plug, I will have to find an alternative. It looks to me that the Genesis experience is similar to that of Standard. I’m not a coding guru and I’m not looking for heavy customization. Just a blog that works.

Any thoughts?

By: Kevin Trye

Kevin Trye — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 06:08:08 +0000

We’re a freelance developer and a huge Genesis fan. Tried working with woothemes a few times and hated it. Woothemes is more a consumer product offering, providing some modest ability to change things via the backend. Genesis is totally flexible and best for developers, making it very easy to build or adapt child themes. Nearly any new site can be built up from just working with the stylesheet, functions and maybe a home.php file.

In fact for several clients that wanted to start with a wootheme look, I found it safer to build an equivalent genesis child theme. The new canvas theme is trying to make it better, but it’s still behind what I can do in genesis, in less time. And when it comes to coding new websites, time is money. The quicker we can build a site, the better the margin and this is where Genesis excels. And the online resources and community support is superb.

One woo product we do like is the woocommerce cart plugin, which we also find works way better under the genesis framework than a woo theme. So, woothemes for simple low budget consumer websites, genesis when you want to get serious (and know a bit about php and css).

By: Tuan Do

Tuan Do — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:22:20 +0000

In reply to Jasonkit. Yes, Jasonkit. Genesis is one of the best theme optimized for SEO. The framework is clean and lightweight, moreover, they keep releasing new themes and give us more choices. I use Genesis for nearly 2 years and I really love it.

By: Jasonkit

Jasonkit — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:56:36 +0000

I love this article. I’m wondering to choose which theme for the best SEO practice. This article leads me to Genesis and i myself also prefer to have Genesis theme. Thanks for the great tips.