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How To Make a jQuery Image Slideshow in Thesis

February 15, 2010

Making a jQuery image slideshow in Thesis is actually very easy. There are four basic steps:

Insert a few lines of code into the header.
Make a slideshow <div id=”slideshow”>.
Put some images into your images folder.
Write a little custom.css code magic.

To begin, I want to outline a few assumptions. I am going to assume that you have [...]

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How To Exclude Posts Of A Certain Category In Thesis

August 18, 2009

Categorical Exclusion
Sometimes, there is a benefit to excluding posts of a certain category from the main blog page. For instance, you may want a page that updates frequently. Rather than go in and edit the page each time you want new content, you could simply write a post, mark it in a special category, exclude [...]

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How To Make A Custom Page Template Using Thesis

July 18, 2009

Watch Me First!
In this video, I will show you how to create a custom page template using Thesis. In theory, this could be used on any page; I just happen to do the home page in this example. Many people have asked me how to move their blog to a different part of their site [...]

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Make A Static Homepage With Wordpress And Thesis

July 18, 2009

This is the first installment of two videos that are designed to show you how to make an awesome static home page using Wordpress and Thesis. This video will show you how to use only Wordpress with a dash of Thesis to create a very simple, yet effective, static homepage. This is useful for those [...]

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How To Add an Image After the Content in Thesis

June 17, 2009

Recently, I was asked how to add an image after the content div. There is, of course, a hook for that. The image will appear after the prev_next div (which has the “previous entries” link). Also, this certainly is not limited to images. In theory, anything can go there.

Open custom_functions.php.
Enter the following fancy pants code:
function [...]

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