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Plugins For Genesis
Our third area of comparison is plugins. Starting with Genesis again, it has a very large number of plugins in the WordPress repository that are designed specifically to augment Genesis. If you go to the WordPress repository, go to plugins and search for Genesis, you see a large number of plugins here that add special functionality to Genesis.
The plugins don't work in any other theme, they only work with Genesis but they do give you the ability to do a lot of customization of the functionality of Genesis. On the other hand, there's very limited support or documentation for using the plugins.
If we just open up one of these plugins and look at it, there's almost nothing in here about how to use this . There's very little support for how to use their plugins. I don't think that there are any plugins that allow you to actually customize the appearance of the site but there is a large number of those plugins that allow you to customize the function of the site.
Plugins for Thesis
Thesis has very few plugins in the WordPress repository. Really, there's only a couple of decent plugins currently available for Thesis. Thesis Toolbars is a very interesting one, my plugin is the Thesis Simple Header Widgets Plugin and the only other good one is the Thesis OpenHook which is actually an excellent plugin.
A lot of these other ones purport to have a lot of significant functionality but when we really get right into it, they're beginning efforts and they're not particularly mature.
As you probably know, on my site there are a large number of BYOB Plugins with lots of excellent support if I do say so myself. There's not a ton on the repository, there are quite a few at BYOB Website and I do have excellent support for them.
Most of those plugins focus on customizing the appearance of Thesis and there's plenty of them that have to do with the structure. The ones that people are most compelled by are the ones that customize the appearance which is something that Genesis doesn't have very much of currently.
Search Engine Optimization
The fourth area of comparison is SEO. These themes are almost identical in SEO, that is they both have a complete set of SEO Tools that are automatically built in. One of the ways in which they can be distinguished is that there's no way in Thesis to disable Thesis' SEO tools.
However in Genesis, it automatically disables its SEO tools when it finds another SEO plugin. If you are moving a site that had All in One SEO or Yoast SEO already involved and you're moving it over to Genesis, Genesis just turns off its SEO tools and lets you continue to use those other tools. If for some reason you prefer the Yoast plugin, the Yoast plugin will work with Genesis simply because Genesis turns itself off so there's no real need to import SEO settings.
On the other hand, Thesis does not do that. Thesis expects you to use its own tools. If you're already using All in One SEO on your site, there's a tool that will allow you to import the All in One SEO settings into Thesis, turn off All in One SEO and let Thesis manage your SEO. However, the tools in both of them are otherwise identical.
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