Thesis Development

Mindlessly Simple Web Hosting

March 1, 2010

Web hosting confused the hell out of me when I first started working on the web. What is hosting? What kinds of options did I have? What’s the deal with their advertised prices? What service does Thesis Tutor recommend? These are questions that I am going to stamp out once and for all. With this [...]

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The Comprehensive List of Thesis Hooks and Thesis Filters

March 1, 2010

When it comes to being a Thesis developer, there is one thing I have been unable to live without: Thesis Hooks. Good ol’ Chris Pearson has hooked us devs up with…well, a ton of hooks. The Thesis hooks list below tells you all 54 hooks in the order they appear in hooks.php. Before the list [...]

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How to Upgrade from Thesis 1.5.1 to Thesis 1.6

October 26, 2009

Upgrading Thesis is extremely easy. Be sure to back-up all files before upgrading any software. Also don’t forget to upgrade your copy of Thesis to the Developer’s Option!

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Thesis Tutor and Thesis 1.6

September 19, 2009

The release of Thesis 1.6b marks a huge milestone for web design. Thesis 1.6 poses a few new challenges from a developer’s standpoint. It isn’t that Thesis is somehow more difficult, but rather it is simply a little different. The navigation area has had a ton of changes which means that some older tutorials on [...]

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The Single Most Critical Thesis Theme Development Tool

June 19, 2009

Yes, there is a tool so important to Thesis development that it is nearly impossible to unlock the power of Thesis without it. In fact, I think it is fair to say that without this tool you will never use Thesis to its fullest. What is this crucial tool? Firebug. I know you want it. [...]

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Three Essential Thesis Theme Development Tools

June 13, 2009

The potential for the Thesis Theme is like no other theme in the history of WordPress. Thesis is not just a theme; Thesis is every theme. There literally isn’t a theme that currently exists that can’t be made by customizing Thesis. It would be more appropriate to think of Thesis as the Photoshop of web [...]

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