Tips, Tricks, and Tools for the Thesis Theme
You might not have known it, but I have been writing skins for others for quite some time. Now I have decided to strike out on my own and offer them directly to you! Thesis Theme Tools Skins will be launched on June 1, 2010. We will offer fresh new designs, innovative features, unheard-of user [...]
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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 [...]
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Many of my clients have asked for a way to put their own images into a rotating gallery. There is no plugin that is entirely suitable for this purpose that I know of. The closest is the NextGEN gallery plugin, but it has only rigidly defined ways to use it, is complicated to set up, [...]
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Widgetized “fat” footers are a popular addition to blog sites. There have been several threads on the DIYthemes Forums about widgetized footers, but often they are complicated and hard to follow. A new article, Tutorial: Widgetized “Fat” Footer, offers a solution that is simple to set up, needs no configuration and can be used right [...]
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There have been numerous threads in the DIYthemes Forums about making a widgetized “fat” footer. Most methods are fairly complicated, and the threads are often confusing. Here is a solution that is simple to set up, needs no configuration and can be used right out of the box! It has been tested in both Thesis [...]
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You’ve probably noticed the vertical menu at the top of the left sidebar. It is used for supplementary navigation to help you quickly find anything on this site. It is an example of the Vertical Multilevel Dropdown Menu described in a new tutorial. You can use the Vertical Menu as your main menu or as [...]
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Many people have requested a Vertical Multilevel Dropdown Menu to use either as the main menu, or as a supplement to navigation. In response to these requests, I have developed the menu described in this article. You can see the Vertical Menu in action in the top left sidebar of this site. I use it [...]
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One of the things that most Thesis newbies want to know right away is how to put an image into a sidebar. It is an easy task that takes only a few minutes. Following is a step-by-step guide to putting both a non-clickable and a clickable image into a sidebar. Make sure your image is [...]
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Got a couple of articles written today, but had a lot of other obligations that cut into my time. I also spent a lot of time in the Forum today, and had to troubleshoot a problem a user was having with the Contextual Submenus. It didn’t help that my wife’s dog, who is used to [...]
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Two new articles have been posted today that might be of interest to you: “Google Webmaster Tools Setup” shows you how to set up Google Webmaster Tools in Thesis in 5 easy steps and is fully illustrated with helpful images. It also gives you an overview of what Webmaster Tools can do for you, as [...]
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If you want to style your widgets in custom.css, the first thing you have to do is find their names so you can address them. This is not at all obvious, though once you know how to do it, it’s easy. Here’s how: Bring up the page with your widgets in a browser and then [...]
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