Customize the home page of Genesis framework child themes using Page Builder by SiteOrigin.
As of April 2026, Black Studio Homepage Builder for Genesis is a WordPress home plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 21K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 3 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Easy Custom Auto Excerpt.
The Genesis framework by StudioPress is the leading WordPress theme framework on the market. Unfortunately most of the available child themes have a prebuilt layout for the home page, that can’t be easily customized, unless you are a developer, as it requires dealing with templates, hooks, etc.
On the other side Page Builder by SiteOrigin is a plugin that allows you to create responsive page layouts using widgets with simple drag and drop operations.
You may combine Genesis and Page Builder to build a flexible layout for your home page. To do so you have to configure a static page in your WordPress Reading Settings and build that page using Page Builder, but there are still some caveats when doing this, related to how Genesis handles static pages (page title, layout, styles, etc).
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| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.0.11 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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