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Here’s an overview on how to build an extremely custom Author Page for Thesis.

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Use the Google Maps API to dynamically create maps in your blog posts or pages.

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Increase WordPress Upload Limit on BlueHost

March 2, 2010

If you’ve ever tried moving a large blog or uploading large images, you’ve run into the Upload Filesize Limit. This walks you through increasing it for BlueHost (and can be applied to other hosts).

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Thesis Tip #14 – Add Related Posts Before Comments Link

February 25, 2010

Here’s a quick tip on how to add Related Posts (or anything else) at the end of a post but before the comments link.

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BBC Interview about BIL Conference

February 9, 2010

I was interviewed on BBC Radio 5 about the upcoming BIL Conferences – BIL2010 in February and BIL:UK in July.

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Thesis Tip #11 – Clickable Logo in Header

January 20, 2010

This is a simple but common mistake. When you replace the site title in the header with a custom logo, use this code to make it click through to your homepage.

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Thesis Tip #10 – Filter Categories from Homepage

December 21, 2009

Only want the posts from certain categories to show up on your homepage? This quick tip will show you how.

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Thesis Tip #9 – Custom Options Page

December 14, 2009

Do you wish you could add a few more options to the Thesis Options menu? I’ll show you how to create an additional options page and how to pull the data from it into your Thesis website.

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Why Developers Love the Thesis WordPress Theme

December 12, 2009

(Originally posted on Building43, Rackspace’s community website)
Frameworks have become all the rage in the development community. There’s Rails for Ruby, Blueprint for CSS, and now Thesis for WordPress.
Thesis provides a wonderful base on which you can build your WordPress site. It was built with SEO in mind, and comes with extensive design options for handling [...]

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Thesis Tip #8 – Change Next and Previous Post Text

December 10, 2009

At the bottom of your posts is a link to the previous and next post. This quick tip will show you how to change that.

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Thesis Tip #7 – Import and Export Your Design

December 7, 2009

One of Thesis’ greatest features is the extensive design options. But these changes aren’t stored in the theme files. This tutorial will help if you’re planning to move your site or would like to backup your design changes.

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Thesis Tip #6 – Print Stylesheets

December 2, 2009

By adding a print stylesheet to your website, you ensure your site will look great on both the web and paper.

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Thesis Tip #5 – Featured Content Rotator

November 26, 2009

I’ll walk you through the steps of adding a Featured Content slideshow to the top of your homepage (using the Featured Content Gallery plugin), and modifying the plugin to work with the default Thesis custom fields.

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Thesis Tip #4 – Adding Classes to Body

November 25, 2009

You’ll often want to write styles specifically for the home page, category pages, or some other type of page not covered by the default thesis classes. This quick tip will help you add classes to the body tag.

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WordPress for Clunkers

November 16, 2009

For Christmas, I’ll be redesigning a website for free! I’m calling it “WordPress for Clunkers”

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Adding External Content (via RSS) to Wordpress

October 14, 2009

There are many plugins that let you pull in posts from an RSS feed. But if you want to show them WITHOUT filling up your database, this is your solution.

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Thesis Tip #3 – Multiple content areas

August 26, 2009

This is a very elegant solution to the problem of having multiple content areas on a single page. It uses headlines to identify the different blocks of content.

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Thesis Tip #2 – Additional Sidebars

August 2, 2009

Additional sidebars allow you to easily manage content that doesn’t fit in a post or page. I’ll outline how to implement them using Thesis, but you could also do this with any Wordpress theme.

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