I got an interesting request this week to change his Genesis framework child theme’s homepage .site-title H1 wrap to a p wrap. I was going to advise against this until the request continued to change one of the widget titles to an H1 and become his new site’s title.
My first thought was that I had to edit the entire header or site title with a filter but it was actually much more simple than that.
Looking at the Genesis core code, it starts off looking like something familiar: adding a filter for genesis_seo_title. Then I saw something else by jumping around a bit in that area of lib/structure/header.php:
// And finally, $wrap in h1 if HTML5 & semantic headings enabled. $wrap = genesis_html5() && genesis_get_seo_option( 'semantic_headings' ) ? 'h1' : $wrap; $wrap = apply_filters( 'genesis_site_title_wrap', $wrap );
Aha! Could it really be as simple as changing that heading in the wrap? As we read on in the file, we see more evidence that is how things work:
// Determine which wrapping tags to use. $wrap = genesis_is_root_page() && 'description' === genesis_get_seo_option( 'home_h1_on' ) ? 'h1' : 'p'; // Wrap homepage site description in p tags if static front page. $wrap = is_front_page() && ! is_home() ? 'p' : $wrap; // And finally, $wrap in h2 if HTML5 & semantic headings enabled. $wrap = genesis_html5() && genesis_get_seo_option( 'semantic_headings' ) ? 'h2' : $wrap;
So this is the code to change the site title’s wrap when on the front-page… by placing this in the front-page.php file found in most of the child themes:
//* Change site-title SEO wrap
add_filter('genesis_site_title_wrap','seo_wrap_site_title');
function seo_wrap_site_title($wrap) {
return 'p';
}
This matches what the title wrap is on inner pages and I won’t dwell on or try to figure out why this child theme’s front-page title wasn’t already how the client wanted, but now you, too, have the code to change the wrap on the site title in Genesis with a very easy filter.
We all need goals to improve day to day and year to year. The famous quote about overestimating what you can do in a year and overestimating for five or ten years is often attributed to Bill Gates. The quote is actually about change:
For quite a while, there has been a problem messing with the stylesheet in 
Upon inspection of the generated code, the “inline-css” style block that the Customizer files inject into 
Now if you’re also a stickler for customizing the themes completely for clients, you’ll also need to do quite a bit of work to all of the Customizer files to find/replace function names and strings with your project name. If you miss even one spot, you’ll either get filenames that are odd or markup that you don’t want… not to mention it not working at all. My own best practices also includes moving the original theme info right below mine in style.css as a reference when customizing a theme rather than doing full-custom. Then I find/replace the original namespaces and such throughout.
A reader asked me a good question last week: why don’t you like partnerships? A valid question, and since I’m so big on teaching how I do business, I decided to explain it fully instead of simply answering a comment that a few people might see.
That’s when the ball hit me in the mouth and broke a tooth I’d knocked out the year before. I was dazed. I was embarrassed. I don’t remember who rescued the ball, but it wasn’t me. I sat out the rest of the game with a busted mouth.