Thesis WordPress Theme from DIY Themes - News, Tips & Tricks
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The days of table based websites are long gone and you most certainly should not be using tables to build a website. There is one legitimate reason why you would create a table in modern websites, and that is to display tabular data. Perhaps you want to display a pricing table, or a basic spreadsheet-like table to display a bunch of numeric values. But writing good quality table markup and then styling it can be [...]
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Here’s a little know feature with WordPress Menus. Well, it was little known to me at least. I’m working on a site for a client which requires each item in the WordPress main navigation to have a different background color. I’m using the WordPress menu system, and not the standard Thesis menu system. By default there are a bunch of classes that are assigned to each item in the menu list, but I needed to [...]
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WordPress 3.1 was released today with a number of new features and enhancements. You can read more about the updates here: WordPress 3.1. The first new update I noticed after upgrading was the admin bar when you’re logged in and viewing your site. This might take some getting used to but you can disable it. There are a number of ways to disable the WordPress admin bar. Instead of rehashing them all here, just read [...]
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I haven’t written much at all about the WordPress plugins that I typically use, but I would like to do that at some point. The Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu Plugin isn’t really one that I use much, but I did want to write something about it. There are a ton of WordPress plugins out there as you very well know, and some are worthy of a review or at least a mention. I tend [...]
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For those of you familiar with Thesis-Blogs.com, you’ll notice things look quite different around here. I decided to redesign the site as I was getting tired of the old design and felt that a fresh look was needed. I didn’t want to spend too much time on it, mostly because I didn’t have much free time between working on client projects, and also I wanted something new up fast. So I created this new design [...]
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Digging Into WordPress by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn the intricacies of WordPress. It works just as well for beginners as it does for more advanced developers. Digging Into WordPress has already seen a couple of editions and the recent release was updated for WordPress 3.0. What’s great about the book is that Chris and Jeff keep it updated as the WordPress feature set evolves. [...]
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Over the past few weeks about 4 of my sites hosted at Media Temple have been infected with malware. I don’t like writing about negative things like this, but decided to do this quick post anyway to maybe help you if you’re experiencing the same problem. I’ll give you some things I’ve learned that could hopefully save you some time. This has happened to me on both WordPress and non-WordPress sites. I also want to [...]
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The latest version of WordPress, Version 3.0 is now out of Beta and available for download, or upgrade through your WordPress Dashboard. The new release has many new features, updates and bug fixes. WordPress 3.0 is the thirteenth major release of WordPress which has taken 6 months to complete by over 218 contributors. Major new features include a completely revamped default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily [...]
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Tabbed Widget Tutorial For Thesis WordPress Theme Using Chris Coyier’s Organic Tabs 128
How to Install Thesis For the First Time 74
How to Show Related Posts With Thumbnails Without a Plugin in Thesis 53
Add a Full Screen Background Image in Thesis 49
Thesis 1.8 Adds Header Image Uploader 42
Add a Custom Class to Each Item in the WordPress Menu 38
How To Use WordPress 2.9′s Post Thumbnail Feature (Featured Image) In Your Thesis Theme 36
How To Show Posts From a Specific Category On a Thesis Theme Page 27
Add a Fancy jQuery Drop Down Menu in Thesis using Superfish 25
How to Use Custom Fields in Your Thesis Theme 25
New Thesis Showcase Launched 0Posted on: Apr 04, 2012
WordPress Requires FTP Connection Information When Adding or Upgrading Plugins 0Posted on: Mar 11, 2012
Thesis 1.8.4 is Released Improving Multisite Support and Other Bug Fixes 0Posted on: Mar 03, 2012
Add a Fancy Drop Shadow to Your Comment Avatars 9Posted on: Feb 18, 2012
Thesis 1.8.3 Is Released Along With News About Thesis 2.0 1Posted on: Feb 09, 2012
Thesis-Blogs Is Now on Twitter 7Posted on: Jan 01, 2012
Remove Explore Section From Google Reader and Other Cool Tweaks 0Posted on: Jan 01, 2012
Glenn Sojourner said in Add a Full Screen Background Image in Thesis - Hi…installed bgStretcher and I have installed the... →
Jim said in Add a Full Screen Background Image in Thesis - I have tried it and nothing. Can you please look and see what you... → Jim said in Add a Full Screen Background Image in Thesis - Hi, this is what is in my css file, but I don’t see any... → Jim said in Add a Full Screen Background Image in Thesis - Also thanks for the quick response, I wish everyone was as good as... → Jim said in Add a Full Screen Background Image in Thesis - Ty again…I put the js folder in the images folder and... →
Thesis 1.8 Adds Favicon Uploader
WordPress 3.2 requires MySQL 5.0 or higher Upgrade Error
Use The Thesis 301 Redirect For Affiliate Links
Insert a Line Break in a Page Title in the WordPress Navigation Menu
Thesis Custom Body Class – How To Use It To Create Targeted Custom Styling
Annoying White Flash During Page Transitions in Google Chrome
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