January 20, 2010
Clickable Logo in Header in Thesis
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.
WordPress Development
As I build WordPress websites for my clients, I share what I learn here as tutorials.
December 21, 2009
Filter Categories from Homepage
Only want the posts from certain categories to show up on your homepage? This quick tip will show you how.
December 14, 2009
Custom Options Page
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.
December 10, 2009
Change Next and Previous Post Text in Thesis
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.
December 7, 2009
Import and Export Your Design in Thesis
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.
December 2, 2009
Print Stylesheets
By adding a print stylesheet to your website, you ensure your site will look great on both the web and paper.
November 26, 2009
Featured Content Rotator in Thesis
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.
November 25, 2009
Adding Classes to Body
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.
October 14, 2009
Adding External Content (via RSS) to WordPress
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.
August 26, 2009
Multiple Content Areas
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.
August 2, 2009
Additional Sidebars
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.
July 26, 2009
Custom Images and Category Pages in Thesis
As I’ve been working with Thesis a lot lately, I thought it would be a good idea to start posting some tips for customizing it. This post covers customizing post image/thumbnails and displaying category posts on pages.
July 6, 2009
Search Engine Optimization for WordPress
These are notes from a presentation by Matt Cutts (from Google) on optimizing your Wordpress site. While Wordpress already takes care of most SEO issues, there are a few things you can do to improve it. But remember the 80/20 rule: 80% of SEO is writing compelling content for your readers. The other 20% is simple optimizations of that content.
June 15, 2009
Easy Contact Forms using Google Forms
This is a more technical post than usual. I outline how to quickly build a Contact Form for Wordpress (or any other site).