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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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 Insert A Twitter Feed In Thesis

August 12, 2009

Thesis makes customizing your Twitter feed incredibly easy. Thanks to the Custom.css file, you can make a few simple tweaks to your Twitter widget and your Tweets can look freakin’ sweet.
Installing The Widget
From the Dashboard, go to Plugins→Add New. Search for “Twitter For Wordpress.” The top result should be what you want. Click “Install” [...]

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How To Add Killer Social Icons With Thesis

August 11, 2009

IE7 and IE8 display issue is fixed!
Changed the background position from “-3.2em” to “32px.” Changed width from “3.2em” to “32px.” Simply make those changes and it should work great! Thanks to gtalbot.org, who listed it as number 37 of 171 allegedly fixed bugs in IE 8 [fixed as of 6001.18343]. Sorry I didn’t notice this [...]

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How To Move Nav Menu Above Sidebars

July 20, 2009

Moving the nav menu around in Thesis is super easy. If you check out hooks, you will start to figure out that the nav menu can pretty much go anywhere. I this particular video, I show how to put the nav menu above the sidebars. This is especially useful if you have a bunch of [...]

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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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