The articles listed below are ‘how to’ articles on getting the best out of the Thesis theme for WordPress – tips and techniques. Click the headline to read the full article.
Thesis gives you a lot of control over your navigation bar. You can adjust colours and fonts (which you do through the Design Options screen) and you can adjust the labels. Adjusting your navigation bar labels, and defining which ones should appear in your navigation menu, is done through the Site Options screen. Here’s where [...]
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One of my customers had a header and footer specially designed for their Thesis site recently. And they wanted to know how to change the settings in Thesis so it displaid the new image properly, given that it’s a different size. This is a pretty simple process that involves going to your Thesis Design Options [...]
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Setting up Teasers is one of the functions in Thesis that I always have trouble remembering – maybe because you need to select options in both Thesis and WordPress to achieve this. Anyway, you have some flexibility in how you configure your Teasers layout: You can have a front page which is all Teasers (as [...]
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Displaying relevant ads alongside search results is what made Google rich. So if you’re promoting a number of different products on your blog how can you make sure you’re displaying the most relevant ad to your readers? It’s easy to take the shotgun approach and just display all your ads to all your readers all [...]
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Back in this post I referred to people saying that Thesis sites are too easily recognizable – and the fact is, in many cases it’s true. But it doesn’t need to be. One of Thesis’ more easily recognizable features is its navigation menu, or navigation bar, so today I’ll cover some simple ways to change [...]
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I often read people saying things like ‘I don’t want to use Thesis because Thesis sites are instantly recognisable’. So let’s look at some ways you can disguise your Thesis site. The reason Thesis sites are so often recognised is because the site owners haven’t bothered to change many of the default settings. Things like [...]
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A while ago I took a look at the Thesis Feature Box. Today it’s the turn of the Multi-Media Box. The Multi-Media Box is a little more structured than the Feature Box – but only if you want it to be. You can use it to display a series of pictures that rotate whenever you [...]
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The Feature Box in Thesis gives you just about the most valuable piece of your site’s real estate to do whatever you want with. You can run JavaScript or PHP in it, use it for rotating images, featured post excerpts or simply add an introductory message, as I’ve done. Want to give a more personal [...]
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