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 Make a jQuery Image Slideshow in Thesis

February 15, 2010

Updated! 03/23/10 Well I can’t spell apparently. I had misspelled ‘slideshow’ in the code below. The issue is fixed and my wife is now administering me weekly spelling tests. Thanks, Scott and Willie. Slideshow Made Simple Making a jQuery image slideshow in Thesis is actually very easy. There are four basic steps: Insert a few [...]

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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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Matt Industries Skin For Thesis

October 22, 2009

Download Matt Industries Skin for Thesis Here! Installation Instructions: Download and unzip from link above. Rename your current custom.css file something like custom-old.css. Then upload the new, Matt Industries custom file [to domain.com/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/] you got from unzipping. Thesis Options→Design Options→Framework Options→Outer Page Padding. Set to 0 [zero]. Thesis Options→Design Options→Multimedia Box→Select ‘Do Not Show Box’ [...]

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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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