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Thesis Customizations & 60+ Video Tutorials

by George Serradinho on February 10, 2010

Thesis Customizations & 60+ Video Tutorials

Well, I got an email this week from Pascal from fourblogger.com about a free ebook that is being given away that has loads of Thesis theme tips and tricks and I just had to share it with you all.
Now, I know not all of you are using the Thesis theme, but I had to share this as many would benefit from the ebook and it’s totally FREE. Yes, it’s free to giveaway and that’s what .....

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Thesis Tutorial - Display Tweetmeme button in Posts and Homepage

I have been asked how I got my blog to show the Tweetmeme button on normal posts as well as the homepage. This Thesis tutorial explains what needs to be done to achieve this and should not take more than five minutes.
One could install the WordPress Tweetmeme plugin to display the button, but I don’t think it will be shown on your homepage. This post will explain how to achieve the same results and even .....

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Thesis Tutorial – Add Extra Menu Links under Teaser Posts

by George Serradinho on November 25, 2009

Thesis Tutorial - Add Extra Menu Links under Teaser Posts

So, many have seen on my homepage that I have a few links under my teaser posts. This short tutorial is for thesis theme, but this can be adjusted for other WordPress themes.
Many have emailed me asking how I created the links and if I would share it, I thought why not. I have nothing to hide and have already helped 3 other bloggers do the same on their thesis theme. I have tried my .....

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Thesis Tutorial – Displaying Users Twitter link in the Comments Section

I recently reviewed the TwitterLink Comments WordPress Plugin and this post will now explain how to manually implement the Twitter link in your comments section. If you know the plugin already, then you can carry on reading below. If not, then I suggest you familiarise yourself with plugin functionality first.
Please remember to backup your custom.css and custom_functions.php files.
First of all, head over to the TwitterLink Settings page. Go to the ‘Link Format’ section and enable .....

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Thesis Tutorial – Full Width Header and Menu

by George Serradinho on November 2, 2009

Thesis Tutorial - Full Width Header and Menu

So, I received an email from a user asking how I did the full width header image and menu on the blog. I have set up this post especially for this purpose and I will try and explain what to do.

For this tutorial, I have manually set the top and bottom menu items that must be displayed. One could use the normal thesis menu if you really wanted to. One would have to edit the .....

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Thesis Tutorial - Styling of Note, Alert and other boxes in posts

I have seen many sites use this method and I am one of them too. You can style your alert and note boxes that display in your posts.
The boxes don’t normally have images in and this post will show you how to add an image on the left and have the wording displayed on the right hand side. The two examples below are for the note and alert boxes, but you could create boxes for .....

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Thesis Tutorial – Rotating Banner Ads without using a Plugin

by George Serradinho on September 8, 2009

Thesis Tutorial - Rotating Banner Ads without using a Plugin

I have seen a few blogs have rotating banners using plugins. I recently reviewed AdRotate Plugin to show you how to do it via a plugin, but now I will show you how to do it without using a plugin on Thesis. It’s not as hard as it sounds, very easy in fact.
For this example I am displaying 6 rotating banners ads. You could change it to display less or more ads, the choice is .....

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