Thesis Child Theme

New Thesis site for Brook Farm Cuffley

October 13, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

Recently I was asked by Brook Farm in Cuffley (that’s in England, a soggy, bankrupt little island off the coast of France) to redesign their website. I don’t often tackle design projects, but I figured I could improve the existing site. Here’s what it looked like before:

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How to center your Thesis menu

September 13, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

I’ve seen a lot of Thesis theme users struggling to center align their main navigation menu, and it really isn’t that hard to do. Here’s a 3-minute fix to get you on the right track. In this tutorial I make the following assumptions: You’re using the Thesis Menu, not the WordPress 3.0 menu system. Your [...]

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Recommended plugin for Thesis: PHP Widgetify

June 25, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

Thesis is a great theme framework, but if you’re anything like me you probably don’t enjoy updating it every time a new version is released. Luckily, there’s a plugin called PHP Widgetify that makes life a little bit easier. What is PHP Widgetify? This plugin adds a new type of widget to your Widgets panel, [...]

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Thesis Quickie: Add a body class to your blog pages

February 24, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

On a PSD to Thesis project I’m working on, the client wants a different logo on the blog pages (the blog index, single posts, archives, categories, etc.) to the one on the normal WordPress Pages. By default, Thesis’ body class for the blog pages is simply ‘custom’, which doesn’t really help anyone. But by adding [...]

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Osmotic Skin Release – Finally

January 26, 2010 Thesis Child Theme

If you’re a Thesis user and you’ve been looking for a premium skin that’s a bit special, allow me introduce you to Osmotic. Built on Thesis as a clean blog skin, Osmotic has a bunch of added features and loads of prettiness. And it’s only available to 25 people. That’s right. I’ve always felt that [...]

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Thesis Quickie: Add animated testimonials to your sidebar

December 17, 2009 Thesis Child Theme

On a recent PSD to Thesis project I needed to add testimonials to the sidebar. To make this feature a bit more interactive, I decided to use a sprinkling of jQuery to create an animated fader effect. Here’s how it was done: Step 1 – The jQuery You’ll need to create a new JavaScript file [...]

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Add the WordPress search function to your Thesis header

November 16, 2009 Thesis Child Theme

UPDATE: 18 November 2011 – Added JavaScript to clear the input field when clicked on. Today’s Thesis recipe is a quick and simple fix that adds the WordPress search function to the Thesis header. As with any Thesis customization, you’ll need to have the custom_functions.php and custom.css files open. Step 1 – Add the Search [...]

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Thesis hooks. A complete newbies guide

November 3, 2009 Thesis Child Theme

Want to make Thesis a gazillion times more awesome than it already is? Yes? Excellent! And remarkably simple. What makes Thesis so clever is that it uses a bunch of ‘hooks’ to allow you to make changes to the look & feel of your Thesis website in seconds. Thesis actions & hooks In WordPress, and [...]

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How to fix Thesis Image Framing Issues

August 13, 2009 Thesis Child Theme
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Edit: With the release of Thesis 1.6, Chris has fixed the framing issue discussed below. If you’re still running 1.5, this post is still relevant. If not, not. Today I stumbled across an annoying bug in Thesis 1.5.1 that stops image frames from displaying even when the Thesis options panel and individual WordPress post settings [...]

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How to make the Thesis theme more Bing-friendly

June 22, 2009 Thesis Child Theme
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You may think that Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, is a complete waste of time given Google’s 90%+ market share. But Bing is different. Unlike Google or Yahoo, it aggregates content. Ian Lurie, who writes about SEO/online marketing at Conversation Marketing, puts it this way: Microsoft’s Bing is the latest example of search engines as [...]

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