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Making It Easy for You! Feedburner Setup

by Mike Nichols on January 10, 2010 · 0 comments

Feedburner is Google’s free service that makes having attractive RSS feeds a snap. It’s not hard to set up an account, but some of the more important services are hidden away under lots of menu tabs and sidebar menus.

The new article, “Feedburner Setup,” makes it all easy for you. It shows you in five illustrated steps how to set Feedburner up in under five minutes!

Also included is the way to set up RSS email subscriptions and why you should.

The article is catalogued in the Tips section under “Google Services Setup.”

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You’ve been heard! Color Individual Tabs on the Thesis 1.6 Nav Bar

January 10, 2010

Many of you have requested an update of the article about coloring individual menu tabs in Thesis 1.5.1. Your wait is over!
Thesis 1.6 offers even more ways to color your menu tabs, even without the dropdown menus. You can color the unselected tabs and hover colors individually, the selected tab, and each tab’s dropdown and [...]

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Toolbox Essentials – Tutorial: Browser Detection to Execute IE Hacks

January 3, 2010

If you are a Firefox, Chrome or Mac user, you might be familiar with this scenario: Your Thesis site looks great and you are all proud. Then a friend emails you that your page is a mess in Internet Explorer. You gaze at the attached screenshot in horror. What can you do?
A new article, “Tutorial: [...]

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Important New Article! Tutorial: Customizing Just Your Front Page, Pages or Posts Using Conditional Tags

December 27, 2009

How many times have you wanted to customize just the Home page, or just one page, or only posts? You’ve heard about Conditional Tags but don’t have a clue how to use them!
Well, you will after reading this new article!
“Tutorial: Customizing Just Your Front Page, Pages or Posts Using Conditional Tags” provides all you need [...]

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Another Tip! Quickie: Executing CSS in custom_functions.php

December 27, 2009

Sometimes we need to execute CSS within the PHP of our custom_functions.php file. This article shows you how to use the “style” statement to do so!
“Quickie: Executing CSS in custom_functions.php” is a clear and concise article on how to use the same CSS statements as you use in the custom.css file within your custom_functions.php file. [...]

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New Series! Quickie: How to Find a Page or Post’s Number

December 27, 2009

A frequent question in the DIYthemes forums is how to find the number of a page or post. It’s really simple, but more or less hidden in the bowels of WordPress!
“Quickie: How to Find a Page or Post’s Number” is an illustrated article showing you how to find the number in about 30 seconds! And [...]

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A New How-To! How to Create and Use a Favicon

December 27, 2009

Favicons are the little icon next to your domain name in your browser URL bar. Take a look at the one for Thesis Theme Tools, which is the hammer in our header.
A favicon of your own is a great way to make your site appear more professional and credible.
Creating a favicon is easy, and a [...]

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Another Unplugin — Tutorial: Easy Breadcrumbs Without a Plugin

December 23, 2009

Breadcrumbs are used by many bloggers to show visitors where they are in the blog. It lists the file path from the home page to the current file, usually in a line of text between the header and the content.
Previously, the only way for Thesis users to get breadcrumbs was to use the Yoast Breadcrumbs [...]

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New Article! Tutorial: Rotating Image Gallery for Pages and Sidebars

December 22, 2009

I have been asked many times how to put your own images into a rotating gallery. Until now the only choice you had was the NextGEN plugin, which has limitations, is complicated to set up, and lacks some important features.
Help is at hand! Enter the Rotating Image Gallery!
The new article, “Tutorial: Rotating Image Gallery for [...]

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New Article! Upgrading to Thesis 1.6

December 13, 2009

The new version 1.6 of Thesis has some fantastic features, such as much greater control over fonts and colors, dropdown menus, and a host of other under-the-hood improvements.
However, there is one big problem: Due to the many changes in how Thesis 1.6 uses the WordPress database, you cannot go back to a previous version [...]

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Just for Newbies! Installing Thesis 1.6 for the First Time

December 6, 2009

Installing Thesis 1.6 may look like a difficult task — all that copying, the file permissions, the renaming.
But it doesn’t have to be that way!
A new article just posted, “Installing Thesis 1.6 for the First Time” has all the help you need to install Thesis 1.6 quickly and easily. It has step-by-step directions and lots [...]

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