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A few weeks ago I launched the Genesis DevKit Plugin website which showcases Genesis DevKit without sharing space with many other WP DEV Tools like it’s primary page here on CobaltApps.com. Now I’m sharing a new site, fully focused on the many powerful features found in Instant IDE, the cloud-based development environment that is my personal favorite DEV tool! So be sure to checkout this fresh piece of WordPress real estate over at Instant-IDE.com.

In this 12 Days Of Coding tutorial I walk through the process of creating a custom Genesis Sample Theme that is pre-configured for SASS/SCSS compiling. Using both Themer Pro and Instant IDE I show you how you can easily compile SCSS code using these powerful WordPress DEV Tools, with each including the ability to auto-compile SCSS code with each save to changes made to your .scss files. I also go over some basic ideas behind preprocessors such as SASS/SCSS, like variables, mixins, and includes.

In this 12 Days Of Coding post we will be creating a custom Twenty Twenty Child Theme using our Themer Pro Plugin, and then still using Themer Pro, we will play with some custom PHP code to filter in some custom body classes as well as tweak the styles using CSS. Our code reference point is on this WP codex page that explains the WordPress body_class function that we’ll be working with.

Yesterday I was reading through some of the posts in the Genesis WordPress Facebook group when I stumbled upon a thread where quite a few Genesis users were discussing the best way to create a SASS, and even Gulp ready, version of the Genesis Sample Theme. Some suggested solutions, but then clarified that these were outdated and therefore not really useful at this point in time. Also mentioned was the fact that even once you get a Sassified Sample stylesheet you are then confronted with the sometimes difficult feat of figuring out how to compile the SCSS code. It was like they were describing all that makes our Themer Pro Plugin awesome, but without realizing that it existed. I couldn’t help but chime in! 🙂