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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 Make Custom Headers For Each Page

July 1, 2009

Here are the few lines of CSS I used: .custom #header { background: #000; } .history_page #header { background: #ffd000; } .designers_page #header { background: #203ffe; } .about_page #header { background: #ccc; } Making custom headers for each page is as easy as typing. Thanks to Thesis, this process takes seconds, whereas with other themes, [...]

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User Submitted Sidebar Request

June 29, 2009

Here is the CSS: .custom #sidebar_1 { border: 1px #000 solid; } .custom .sidebar { background: #a9e0ee; } .custom .sidebar ul.sidebar_list { padding-left: 2em; padding-right: 4em; } .custom li.widget { background: #83abdb; padding: .5em 0em .5em 1.5em; border: 1px #000 solid; } Don’t forget to Upgrade to the Thesis Developer’s Option!

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