Genesis is one of my favorites (I’m a premium member) and have developed a couple of sites using it. Unfortunately it’s not as flexible as I’d wish to create custom layouts and other customizations. In fact, the child themes are all very similar, IMO.

Look, my programming skills are too basic so I’m always looking for the most simple solutions out of the box but the more I investigate the most confused I get. It’s difficult to choose one framework when there are so many good ones available.

My conclusion is that it is better to look for plugin based solutions to hold the functionalities and choose the best coded Themes that provide design flexibility. Regarding the plugin we are after, don’t look further: It simply does not exists currently. I asked mostly because I though that you might have the resources to develop it or could let me know when it appears (if ever). I’m seriously considering in hiring a programmer to develop it. In my experience, a good text introduction with links to deeper articles makes wonders from an SEO point of view.

Lastly, I have to decide if I move to multi-site or not.

All the best and please excuse my bad English,
Diego

Thanks for the kind words. Category image plugins for WordPress has been a pain point for awhile, that’s why I wrote up this tutorial some time ago:)

(images fixed above too, thanks for pointing that out!)

I just did some light searching and still could not find any plugin that does what we’re both after. All I see are “hacks” like mine above. Whoever comes up with one that has the features people want will be a popular guy or gal!

I moved to the Genesis framework last year and have been using it for most of my development:)

Congratulations for your great site. This is a great post but, please fix the links to the images

Look: I’m looking for a plugin to easily add introductory texts and images to categories avoiding the need to deal with code and files. As far as I know, only Thesis theme includes this feature but I prefer other frameworks for several reasons, like StudioPress, Headway, Authority Pro, Socrates, iThemes Builder, WPMU Dev and others (still haven’t decided which one to choose to support all my blogs).

Please Adam, If you’re aware of a plugin with this functionality or can suggest an easier solution, let us know.

It would also be great to know your opinion about the frameworks mentioned above.

Now I’m going to purchase the Multi-site tutorial

Best Wishes