Tips and tutorials on using (and getting the best out of) the Thesis framework for WordPress.
Learning to use Thesis to its full potential is an investment well worth making, particularly if you want to run a number of WordPress sites or you create WordPress sites for clients.
The articles listed below describe the processes for customising various aspects of Thesis to get the best out of both it and WordPress.
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Here’s a short 2-minute video demonstrating how to display different information in your Thesis Multi-Media box on specific pages (or posts) in your site. I’ve used this to replace the default banner ad for my ecourse on setting up an online business with a message alerting people who’ve already signed up and arrived at the [...]
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Landing pages (or squeeze pages) have a specific purpose: to create a conversion. Whether it’s to get a new subscriber or to close a sale, landing pages need to be free of any distractions that would give your reader an opportunity to leave the page without completing the conversion. By default, the configuration of WordPress [...]
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Shortcut: if you want to go straight to the process for extending your navigation bar to the width of your content box click here. The process for extending it to the width of your entire site is here. I received an interesting question the other day: how do I make my Thesis navigation bar wider? [...]
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I did a Thesis upgrade recently for a new customer, because some core files in their Thesis installation had been altered. Altering the core files of your theme, or of WordPress, will always generate problems at upgrade time because your alterations will be over-written. That means the functionality that you created through the customisations will [...]
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I was asked recently by a client if it was possible to fix the navigation menu on a Thesis site to the top of the screen, so it was always visible to site visitors as they scrolled down the page. Yes it is. The process I’ve described here is for users of the Thesis Theme, [...]
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The header area of your website is incredibly important. It’s the first thing that new visitors see and it sets the tone for the entire site. Whenever I’m designing a new website for a client I always start with the header area and get their approval on that. Once that’s done, the rest of the [...]
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A little while back I published a tutorial on how to make use of the Multi-Media box in Thesis. Today I want to describe how to style your Multi-Media box. There are countless reasons you’d want to style your Multi-Media box, but probably the most obvious is when you want to use it to contain [...]
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