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New Genesis 2.0 HTML 5 Loop Hooks & How To Use Them

You will need to add HTML 5 support to your Genesis child theme in order to make these new hooks work.

On top of this, the old XHTML markup in existing child themes will need to be converted to HTML 5 as well. Otherwise, you’ll probably find your site is messed up.

Once you’ve done all that, you can then change any existing loop hooks or use the new loop hooks in your child themes functions.php file with custom functions.

Genesis Hook Comparison

New HTML 5Old XHTML
genesis_before_entry genesis_before_post
genesis_entry_headergenesis_before_post_title
genesis_entry_headergenesis_post_title
genesis_entry_headergenesis_after_post_title
genesis_entry_headergenesis_before_post_content
genesis_entry_contentgenesis_post_content
genesis_entry_footergenesis_after_post_content
genesis_after_entrygenesis_after_post
Note: You must install Genesis 2.0 and add support for HTML 5 to your child theme before using the new hooks.

List Of All New HTML 5 Loop Hooks

Includes the 3rd parameter for positioning priority.

Old Loop Hooks

XHTML Loop Hooks

New Loop Hooks

html 5 hooks

Note: If HTML5 is not active, the genesis_loop uses the old hooks and XHTML markup.

Lets look at a real code snippet which is tested and works.

Example:

This code will add a widget area after single posts and pages using the new genesis_after_entry_content hook. That’s the only change in this code.

The code will NOT work unless you have added HTML 5 support to your child theme and activated Genesis 2.0.

Line 8 in this code shows you the new hook.

Simply updating to Genesis 2.0 is not enough to make this code work. The new hooks are dependent on HTML 5 supported child themes.

Old Hook Example

genesis_after_post_content

New Hook Example

genesis_after_entry_content

I’ll be posting more useful code snippets using the new hooks shortly.

Basic Functions Using New Hooks

Basic Functions Using Old Hooks

Useful Resources

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Comments

  2. Brad,

    Thank you for this post. Can you help me with something perhaps simple?

    It looks like I can use genesis_before_post_content to create a unique widget area before post titles.

    But I also want a unique (and separate) widget area before PAGE titles.

    Will genesis_before_post_content end up using the same widget for posts and pages?

    Or is there a way to create a separate widget area for pages?

    Thank you,

    Chris

  3. I have a question. I’m trying to figure out how to stop my email subscription boxes from showing up in my category listings. I wanted it to show up only at the end of entire posts. I used the Genesis Entry Footer Hook. It is showing up in both places. It makes my category section really crowded when someone clicks on a particular category. Can you offer any help?

    • Will you be running Genesis 2.0+?

      The short answer is no they won’t work if you are running Genesis 2.0 and have added HTML 5 support to your child theme.

      The changes only effect the hooks within the loop so you may only need to change 1 or 2 hooks in your functions file.

  6. Thanks for the great tutorial.

    I’m trying to add different opt in forms for posts and pages and adding the opt in form on posts using entry hook is also showing up on pages. Is there a way to exclude pages for entry hooks?

    Thanks,
    Karen

  7. Hello Brad!! I,m subscribe to newsletter of this site and love each update received. I like very much. I would suggest that you put a search box for ease whenever they wish to take any questions come to this site.

    sorry any mistake, do not speak English, Portuguese and am just using google translator

    Thank you 🙂

  8. Hi sir thanks for your awesome tutorial. I’m using genesis html5 child theme ( genesis sample develop) trying to integrate Yoast breadcrumbs but not being able to integrate it properly. Can you help me regarding this issue ?

    Here is the snippet:

    //** YOAST BREADCRUMBS
function yoast_crumbs()	{
	if (is_single())	{
		if ( function_exists('yoast_breadcrumb') ) {
			yoast_breadcrumb('','');
		}
	}
}
add_action('genesis_before_loop', 'yoast_crumbs');
remove_action('genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_breadcrumbs');

    • Did you already install the plugin?

      If you’re using the latest version of WordPress SEO by Yoast, you no longer need to add this code as the breadcrumbs are already included in the plugin.

  9. Hi Brad
    I’ve seen Carrie’s table and read your previous posts on Gen 2 / HTML5 so I’m slowly getting there.

    Since all the old themes are backward compatible with Genesis 2 (if HTML5 is not activated) I’m wondering if people will update or just switch to one of the new themes – be interesting to see how it plays out.

    I appreciate that the markup is more meaningful to the bots but other than that I’ve not read anything to make me believe that HTML5 websites will have a big advantage in the SEO stakes.
    Are you doing anything which will go a little deeper into SEO benefits – would love to have your thoughts.

    • Hi Keith

      I read an article on Yoast recently which you may find interesting.

      I know my traffic has increased recently but its hard to gauge whether that’s from the conversion to HTML 5.

      I think there are SEO benefits but at this stage its still not totally clear to me.

      Thanks or the comment.

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