Note: This is not a Thesis tutorial. When Thesis launched, WordPress didn’t have post images, so Thesis had its own method of using them and it was great. Now that WordPress has native support for them, I prefer to use that. To learn how to use the_post_thumbnail with Thesis, check out this article or this article.
WordPress 2.9 brought us the_post_thumbnail, which lets us set a photo for a post without using custom fields. It works really well and it’s one of my favourite newer features. The post thumbnail works with WordPress cropping functions and can be called at various sizes. Now, wouldn’t it be cool to show just a thumbnail, and then have a bigger photo open in a Lightbox script when clicked?
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So you just picked up a copy of the wonderful Thesis WordPress theme framework, installed it, and don’t quite know where to begin. Sure you can read some basic tutorials and instructions and get a simple site going, but we all know Thesis is more powerful than that. That’s why I’ve compiled this list of 9 awesome blogs to read and subscribe to that will be sure to make you a Thesis master in no time.
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Links are a basic part of the Internet. They’re what keep it connected, really, so why not make these connections fun? A link hover is what happens when you hover your mouse over a link (obviously). Usually you’ll see an underline, or an underline removed, or a different colour. But there are many ways to show people that they can click, so I thought I’d show you four of my favourites.
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The details of this tutorial only apply to people using the Thesis theme. The technique, however, can apply to anyone. So if you’re new to jQuery with any tip of website, read on.
As you may know, the wonderful Thesis theme comes with some default paragraph styles. This includes styling for notes (as you can see above) and alerts (as you can see above that). These are great, but wouldn’t it be cool if you could close the alert after you’ve been alerted? Potentially.
This tutorial has a bigger purpose than that, though. It should be a great introduction to jQuery for those who have never used it before. So let’s begin.
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Almost every WordPress theme you’ll come across has support for going to the previous or next post. That’s all well and good, but in WordPress 2.9 we got the ability to have post thumbnails. Wouldn’t it be great to use thumbnails instead of or alongside our post titles? The answer is yes, it would. So I embarked on a journey to figure out how to add this functionality to your theme, and have posted the results below. First for regular WordPress users, and then for Thesis users.
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It’s time for a really quick tip.
With art directed posts being all the rage now, everybody wants to style everything. There are plugins and custom fields and all sorts of ways to do this, but WordPress already has two not-so-popular functions that allow you to style specific posts or pages
So here they are:
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I recently did a survey both here and on the Third Tribe forums in an attempt to figure out just what it is people want from a premium WordPress theme. We all keep creating but nobody ever really asks the question.
Every day somebody comes out with a theme with an options page that’s bigger than the previous. But is that what the customers want?
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WordPress 3 has a sweet new menu. Thesis already had a sweet menu. Still, some people would like to take advantage of all that this new release of WordPress offers and using the new navigation menu is one of them. Luckily it’s incredibly easy to add support for the new nav menu in Thesis.
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This is just a quick update to let everyone know that Theme Thesis is now on Facebook.
If you follow the Theme Thesis Twitter account you’ll see that it’s filled with web design resources and goodies, and that’s what the Facebook account will be like. Facebook and Twitter are different venues, though, so the volume will be restricted and the only resources that will make it over there will be the best of the best.
Become a “liker” to stay updated with Theme Thesis happenings, get the best web design resources, and generally have a good time.
Hopefully I’ll see you there!
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