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Add a Fancy Drop Shadow to Your Comment Avatars

February 18, 2012 · 3 comments

A reader of this blog posted a comment asking me to share the code that I’m using for the comment gravatar images. I’ve provided the code below, but keep in mind that you can always use Firebug to look at the CSS code used on elements of a website. I’m not saying you should copy code from other sites, but you can certainly get ideas and learn from other web developers as to how they [...]

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Thesis 1.8.3 Is Released Along With News About Thesis 2.0

February 9, 2012 · 0 comments

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Thesis 1.8.3 Is Released Along With News About Thesis 2.0

Chris Pearson has released the latest version of Thesis, version 1.8.3 which has numerous performance and usability enhancements. To learn more about Thesis 1.8.3 and hear from Chris on the latest developments with regard to Thesis 2.0, you can read the official post over at DIYthemes. How to upgrade from a previous version of Thesis How to install Thesis for the first time

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Thesis-Blogs Is Now on Twitter

January 1, 2012 · 0 comments

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It took a while, but Thesis-Blogs.com now has a Twitter profile! Be sure to follow us to receive more tips for Thesis, WordPress and anything else we find interesting. Follow @thesisblogs!

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Use TimThumb to Add Thumbnail Images Using the First Image in the Post

August 6, 2011 · 6 comments

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Use TimThumb to Add Thumbnail Images Using the First Image in the Post

I have been a fan of the TimThumb script for some time now. It can be used as an alternative to using WordPress Featured Images to display and automatically resize images. Recently there has been quite a lot of activity in TimThumbville. A security vulnerability was discovered which allowed third parties to upload and execute PHP code in the TimThumb cache directory. Following the news of the vulnerability, the current TimThumb developer, Ben Gillbanks has [...]

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Show One Sidebar on Certain Pages in Thesis

July 23, 2011

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Show One Sidebar on Certain Pages in Thesis

This post is part of a series of tips & tricks that I have hand selected from the Thesis User's Guide, and which I have found most helpful when customizing and enhancing Thesis. You should check out the guide for some excellent tips.

Sometimes you might want to show a single sidebar on certain pages in your Thesis theme if you’re running a 3-column layout. That means you basically have 2 sidebars sitewide, but maybe you just want to show one on a particular page. This tutorial from the Thesis User’s Guide will allow you to do just that. There are four basic steps to making this happen: Remove the original sidebars from the home page Restore sidebar [...]

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Center Navigation Horizontally in Thesis

July 3, 2011 · 3 comments

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Centering your navigation horizontally across your site isn’t as easy as it sounds. There are a number of solutions I’ve come across to achieve this and most of them do the trick. I wanted to share one solution for centering a navigation horizontally that I have found works well and requires the least amount of css code. How to Center your Navigation Horizontally The method I’m using come from this blog and you can read [...]

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DIYthemes Releases Thesis 1.8.1

May 26, 2011 · 0 comments

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A minor update to Thesis was released to fix a small display bug on the edit category page of the WordPress admin interface. The release also makes a performance improvement with respect to caching stylesheets. You can get all the juicy details here. Log into your DIYthemes account and download the new version. You can also read about installing Thesis for the first time, or upgrading to the latest version of Thesis.

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Add an Author Profile Box Below Posts in Thesis

April 21, 2011 · 5 comments

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Here is some quick and easy code which will display an author profile box below your posts in Thesis. You’ll find this code on numerous blogs so there isn’t anything ground-breaking here. I’ve just edited the code slightly by adding my own spin on it. The styling is slightly different, and I believe offers a small improvement. Also on every other tutorial I’ve seen with this code, it uses the word “awesome” when referring to [...]

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Create a Custom Author Archive Page in Thesis

April 15, 2011 · 2 comments

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There seems to be no shortage of code snippets out there that help you add custom functionality to your Thesis theme framework. Just recently I needed to create a custom author archive page in Thesis. This is mostly used if you have multiple authors on your blog and you want to spotlight the author at the top of their author page. Let’s not confuse this with an author box at the end of posts. The [...]

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Add Breadcrumb Navigation Without a Plugin in WordPress and Thesis

April 3, 2011 · 5 comments

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Add Breadcrumb Navigation Without a Plugin in WordPress and Thesis

I’ve never been one to buy into the concept of breadcrumb navigation. I’m more of a take-me-to-this-page or take-me-to-the-home-page kind of guy. I really don’t care about the entire sitemap structure that has taken me to the page I’m currently viewing. But every now and then you’ll come across someone who insists on having breadcrumb navigation. So here’s a solution you can use to create breadcrumb navigation in your Thesis theme. There is nothing new [...]

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