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How to exclude certain pages from the WordPress search.

January 31, 2012 Tutorials

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Over the past few days I’ve been tweaking my website to update the design. Part of the process included adding a site search box, something I haven’t bothered with before. This is nice, but it also presented a problem because some of my pages are for my eyes only. So rather than write a custom [...]

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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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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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2 more must-have CMS enabling plugins for WordPress

November 25, 2009 Tutorials

W00t! Nettuts published a new post on a bunch of new WordPress plugins this morning. Most of them are worthless but there are 2 very (for a change) useful plugins I definitely see potential for, especially if you’re using WordPress as a CMS. Custom Class Selector First up, Custom Class Selector. If you know how [...]

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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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CMS your WordPress with these 10 plugins

July 15, 2009 Blog
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There are 2 ways to make WordPress into a better CMS. The first way involves a lot more time spent building your theme and ultimately a lot more cost. The second way uses third party plugins to extend your CMS’ functionality. If I could install any 10 plugins to make a CMS more CMS-like, these [...]

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