Me too …
I prefer using Studiopress Genesis themes whenever I can and would really appreciate Genesis Connect for WooCommerce to be fully compliant.
I will be happy to test updates.
@teresa Rosche Ott
Did you hear any more about this? Is an update coming?
I am just getting my feet wet with all this and have a woocommerce site I am converting to Genesis/Dynamik in the next couple of weeks.
@petriknz – No, no news.
FWIW, in the 3 – 4 years I’ve been involved with WordPress I have come to understand the problem with “free” plugins. If a developer can’t find some way to pay the bills with his/her labors it seems to sooner or later become difficult to make it a priority as one must contend with things that do keep the kiddies fed and whatnot. Because people that grow food or make clothes don’t just give away the fruits of their labor.
But anyway – off the soapbox. Here is what I did…
Visit the WooCommerce site and take a look at their free Mystile theme. It is fairly minimally styled and is responsive, so it is probably the best place to start “borrowing” styles. View the theme demo and use Chrome Developer Tools or Firebug to see what styles apply to elements that are still problematic after using Genesis Connect. Then you can copy those into your stylesheet.
I am pretty handy with CSS and was glad I thought to check Woo’s themes for a head start on fixing my design. Despite being armed with those assets it took me several hours of work to *mostly* fix the shop area of the site I’m working on. I still have to make some checkout page tweaks, and there are undoubtedly now a lot of unused styles in my stylesheet after all the Woo style blocks I dumped into it. Definitely cleanup to do. But hopefully others can find some help in the Mystile CSS.
@teresa Rosche Ott
Thanks for that tip.
In reply to your first point. Yes it is unfortunate but understandable how developers disappear like that. Even more unfortunate that they didn’t put a small cost on their plugin. This is the type of thing I don’t mind paying for.
With Woocommerce and Genesis being so popular (One free, though you invariably end up purchasing extensions, and the other paid). A $5-$10 price tag on this plugin would have been all that was needed to have a regular cash flow coming in for further development. And a no brainier to pay it for those needing it.
With the number of WordPress users the fees shouldn’t need to be huge. But charge a little, keep developing and the number of people needing the solution that you’ve created will fill the bank account pretty quickly.
So if any developers are following this post. Please update your plugin, charge me a fiver or even a tenner, and we’ll all walk away happy campers.
Hi all,
I think there is a misunderstanding about what this plugin does.
Firstly, what it doesn’t do – it doesn’t miraculously style WooCommerce shop/content to match your child theme styles. This is explained in the readme file with a specific section on how to handle CSS.
Secondly, what does it do? It simply integrates the WooCommerce shop/product templates into Genesis and enables the use of Genesis Simple Sidebars and Genesis Simple Menus on shop/product pages.
If this basic functionality (which is all I’ve ever claimed it handles) is broken, eg because WooCommerce has changed something in their plugin, please post a bug report on this Support Forum and include a link to your site so that I can see what’s going on.
Finally, the plugin has been extensively tested with Genesis 2.0, including in HTML5 mode, and works fine on my test install. But, as I say, if you’ve found a bug – tell me about it so that I can fix it.
Thanks.
