How to Exclude Posts with a Certain Tag in Thesis

June 28, 2010

Many of you have found the post on excluding categories from you blog very helpful. However, what happens when you want to exclude posts with a certain tag from appearing on the blog? Well, thankfully that is an extremely simple operation. The first thing you have to do is figure what the tag id is. [...]

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Add WordPress 3 Custom Background to Thesis

June 25, 2010

Did you know that Thesis has supported adding custom background colors (but not images) to the <body> for a few versions now? Well, it has WordPress has decided to catch up and add in a CSS background generator. Basically, WordPress adds <style> body { background: blah blah; } </style> to your <head>. Remember, this is [...]

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How to Register Multiple WordPress Menu Locations in Thesis

June 24, 2010

Before you can start this tutorial, you’ll need to follow the tutorial on how to add the WordPress 3 menu to Thesis. Once you finish that tutorial, you will have the following in your custom_functions.php: add_action(‘init’,'register_menu’); remove_action(‘thesis_hook_before_header’,'thesis_nav_menu’); add_action(‘thesis_hook_before_header’,'wordpress_menu_support’); function register_menu() { register_nav_menus( array( ‘primary’=>’Primary Menu’ )); } function wordpress_menu_support() { if (function_exists(‘wp_nav_menu’)) wp_nav_menu(‘theme_location=primary&fallback_cb=thesis_nav_menu’); else thesis_nav_menu(); [...]

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How To Add WordPress 3.0 Menu To Thesis

June 22, 2010

I have seen a few ways to add WordPress 3.0 menu support to Thesis and they do “work”, but they really aren’t optimal. So, I have written a fix for this issue until Thesis can get updated. First, let’s identify exactly what we need to get accomplished. This tutorial will only cover replacing the current [...]

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How To Add A Filter To The Homepage H1

April 22, 2010

In a recent job I was doing, I needed to change the <h1> tag on the homepage of my client’s site. In Thesis, the homepage <h1> is set as the tagline, and I not only needed to change that, but have a simple solution for all my sites from here on out. My setup was [...]

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How To Make A Rotating Header Image In Thesis

March 5, 2010

When Chris Pearson, the creator of Thesis, recently redesigned Pearsonified.com on Thesis, he did something amazingly cool: he put rotating images in his header area. Well, I was so inspired by his design that I wanted to figure out how he did it. It turns out that putting rotating images in your header is extremely [...]

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