Thesis 1.8, released last week, brings some nice new functionality and a missed opportunity. Affiliate alert: I’m an affiliate for Thesis, which means that if you buy it by clicking one of the links on this site I get a bit of beer money. See my disclosure for more details. I discussed Thesis in more [...]
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The site layout controls on the Design Options page in Thesis offer the ability to completely change the layout of your site whenever you want. You can select the number and positioning of your columns (content and sidebars) and choose your page framework (full-width or page) just by selecting a few options. When you use [...]
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Images add hugely to the visual appeal of a post and help to keep site visitors engaged. And if you’re using the Teasers option (magazine style layout) for displaying posts on your blog page, Thesis will automatically resize your post image to fit into the Teaser box. The Post Images and Thumbnails section on the [...]
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The Thesis Custom CSS Stylesheet is the tool you use to build on the colours and fonts you set up in the Design Options screen, to make your WordPress site uniquely yours. Keep in mind the point I made in the article on design options: in order to keep your site coding as efficient as [...]
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Although I’m focusing primarily on the Design Options screen in this article I do have to refer to the Site Options screen occasionally. Please read carefully in those parts as the names of different sections are quite similar and can be confusing The Design Options screen gives you point and click control over a wide [...]
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The first thing I do when I create a new installation of Thesis is install the Thesis-OpenHook plugin. One of the most powerful features of Thesis is the custom-functions.php file. It enables you to move different elements of your page around and add bits and pieces wherever you want. But if you’re not a PHP [...]
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A while ago I wrote an article in which I said that you almost certainly know more than you think you do about working online. And that once you realise that, you’ll suddenly find a whole bunch of business opportunities opening up. I described one in the article. So this week I saw another example [...]
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