Quite recently, Blogussion was upgraded to the powerful Thesis WordPress Theme. After the release, I waited on getting some feedback on the theme. Most people loved it, some people hated it.
I got a lot of emails after the upgrade with questions on how to make some of the customizations I did, and some comments too. So I decided that because I am now addicted to Thesis and want it any blog I ever make, I now want to write about it. So I figured the first thing I would write about Thesis are the customizations I made on my own theme (which is very edited).
Before you read this…
Before you read this post, there are some things I suggest you read if you have never worked with Thesis before. More specifically, regarding the hooks system Thesis uses.
I’m not going to lie, the way Thesis works coding wise will be confusing at first with the hook system it uses. But once you mess around with it, it’s the easiest thing in the world.
- Hooks for Dummies
- Thesis Hook Reference List [Recommend you Bookmark this]
- How to Customize Like a Pro with Theme Hooks
- Default Hook Usage in Thesis [Also bookmark worthy]
- Customizing Thesis with custom.css
DIYthemes Forum
After you buy Thesis, you are granted special access to a Support forum consisting of thousands of Thesis users. I could not have made my Thesis theme what it was today without reading some of the knowledge on that forum, so be sure to use the forum as your go-to place for any Thesis information.
1. Adding a cool post footer
The thing that got the biggest response about the theme was the post footer. Check out the content immediately after this article if you don’t know what I mean by “post footer”.
I am going to show you how to create the same stuff I have in my post footer, except for the Post Highlights box.
So paste this code into custom_functions.php
function post_footer() {
if (is_single())
{
?>
<div class="postauthor">
<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_id() , 100 ); ?>
<h4>Article by <a href="<?php the_author_url(); ?>">
<?php the_author_firstname(); ?> <?php the_author_lastname(); ?></a></h4>
<p><?php the_author_description(); ?></p>
<p class="hlight"><?php the_author_firstname(); ?> has written <span><?php the_author_posts(); ?></span> awesome articles for us.</p>
</div>
<div id="similar">
<h3>You May Also Be Interested In...</h3>
<p>Similar Posts Code Here</p>
</div>
<div id="rightcol">
<div id="subscribe">
<h3>Subscribe Now</h3>
<p>If you enjoyed this post, you will definitely enjoy our others. Subscribe to the feed to get instantly updated for those awesome posts soon to come.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="FEED_URL_HERE">Subscribe to our RSS Feed</a></li>
<li><a href="FEED_URL_HERE">Subscribe for Email Updates</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="custom">
<p>Put whatever you want here!</p>
</div>
</div>
<?php
}
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_post_box', 'post_footer');
Here is the CSS too, if you want to build off of my style. Paste this in custom.css:
/* AUTHOR BOX */
.custom #comments { clear: both; }
.postauthor { background: #F5F5F5; border-top: 1px solid #e1e1e0; border-bottom: 1px solid #e1e1e0; overflow: hidden; padding: 1.5em; }
.postauthor img { border: 5px solid #e2dede; float: left; margin-right: 1.5em; }
.postauthor h4 { color: #666; font-size: 2em; margin-bottom: 5px; }
.postauthor p { color: #515151; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 12px; }
.postauthor p.hlight { font-size: 11px; text-transform: uppercase; }
.postauthor p.hlight span { color: #CB3131; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.8px; }
/* BOXES */
#similar h3, #rightcol h3 { font-size: 1.8em; letter-spacing: normal; padding-top: 15px; }
#similar { float: left; width: 50%; }
#similar p { margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 10px 2.5em 10px 10px; }
#similar a { font-size: 1.4em; border-bottom: 1px solid #CB3131; line-height: 1.5em; }
#similar a:hover { border: 0; }
#similar h3 { padding-left: 10px; }
#similar span.date { color: #888; letter-spacing: 1px; text-transform: uppercase; }
#rightcol { float: right; width: 50%; }
#rightcol p { font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em; padding: 10px 2.5em 10px 0; }
#rightcol h3 { padding: 0; }
#rightcol ul { list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: square; margin-left: 1em; }
#rightcol ul a { border-bottom: 1px solid #CB3131; font-size: 14px; }
#rightcol ul a:hover { border: 0; }
#rightcol li { margin-bottom: 10px; }
#subscribe { background: #FFFBCC; border: 1px solid #E6DB55; float: right; margin: 15px 15px 0 15px; padding: 19px 10px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; }
#custom { background: #E4F2FD; border: 1px solid #C6D9E9; float: right; margin: 15px; padding: 19px 10px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; }
2. Custom Pages
If you want to edit the Thesis 404 page or Archives page like I have, check out the codes I used:
Archives Page
The default Archives page that comes with Thesis is great, but I want to do more with mine (still under construction by the way). Here is the code you can use to edit the Archives template from custom_functions.php
function new_archives() { ?>
<p>New Archives Page</p>
<?php }
remove_action('thesis_hook_archives_template', 'thesis_archives_template');
add_action('thesis_hook_archives_template', 'new_archives');
404 Page
I got the following code from Rae Hoffman (Suggarrae).
function custom_thesis_404_title() {
?>
YOUR 404 PAGE HEADING HERE
<?
}
remove_action(’thesis_hook_404_title’, ’thesis_404_title’);
add_action(’thesis_hook_404_title’, ’custom_thesis_404_title’);
function custom_thesis_404_content() {
?>
<p>WHATEVER YOU WANT YOUR 404 PAGE TO SAY HERE</p>
<?
}
remove_action(’thesis_hook_404_content’, ’thesis_404_content’);
add_action(’thesis_hook_404_content’, ’custom_thesis_404_content’);
3. Add Custom Info to Featured Post
On the front page of the blog, there is one featured post followed by 14 teasers. I was able to add content to the bottom (such as the ShareThis button and Tweet This) of the featured post only, and this is how i did it:
function featuredpost_content() {
if (is_home())
{
?>
<p>Add whatever here</p>
<?php }
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_post', 'featuredpost_content');
This may or not be useful if you don’t use featured posts on your Thesis blog.
4. Add Thumbnails to “Popular Posts”, “Similar Posts”, “Recent Comments”, etc.
Note: You will need to use any plugin from Rob Marsh to be able to do this.
I used Custom Fields for this. if you don’t know how to use custom fields, read this article at the WordPress Codex.
If you use the teasers Thesis has on your blog and have 66×66 images then most of the work will already be done for you. If not, create a custom field and paste your image URL’s into it.
So if you use Rob Marsh’s “Popular Posts” plugin for example, go to Settings → Popular Posts → Output and paste this code into the very first input box “Output Template”:
<p>
<img src="{custom:thesis_thumb}" width="50" height="50" alt="" />{link}
<div class="clear"></div>
</p>
You may also need to add this to your CSS, unless you already have it. You need a clear in the code, or the output won’t look right.
.clear { clear: both }
And to add that to the sidebar, you could either copy and paste it into your Widgets panel, or if you chose not to use Widgets you can use this code to do it:
function PopPosts() { ?>
<?php popular_posts(); ?>
<?php }
add_action('SEE BELOW OPTIONS', 'PopPosts');
Since Thesis has a variety of sidebar hooks, you can choose one of the below to replace with “SEE BELOW OPTIONS” above:
- thesis_hook_before_sidebar_1
- thesis_hook_after_sidebar_1
- thesis_hook_before_sidebar_2
- thesis_hook_after_sidebar_2
So Thesis really isn’t hard at all to mess around with, you just need to give it a little time for you to fully understand it. Hopefully by seeing the customizations I shared with you will make you realize that. And if you are looking for a great Premium Theme, I am telling you that you cannot go wrong with buying Thesis.
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Just bought Thesis myself, these are some great tips bro!
Will definitely implement these once I get my general theme up and runnign!
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Can’t wait Tyler, let me know when your design is up!
Hi, Alex.
Pertaining to your plugins by Rob Marsh…thank you a lot for the tutorial. Its work.
But what i should put to make the RECENT COMMENTS shows the commenter gravatar with adjustable width and height and also a comment excerpt and code to limit the comment excerpt.
hope you could respond to me quickly..
by the way nice theme..is this theme custom made or purchase themes for thesis?
Thank you.
Man, I can’t wait to get Thesis. You just keep making me want it more and more. Great post.
By the way, my blog became Dofollow, and is PR 2. Maybe you could add it to your directory.
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That’s awesome man, I hope you do get Thesis soon! 1.5 is coming out, and it’s going to be absolutely amazing!
The directory is still being made, but thanks for the 411 on your blog. :p
Once again, great work Alex. Thanks for sharing these Thesis customisations. As I said the other day, I love the work you’ve done on the theme here.
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Really appreciate it Mikey, I’m so glad you like it!
Do let me know if you implement any of these tips onto your blog now, alright?
While haven’t decided to switch to Thesis I do love tutorial posts that show a demonstration at the same time (obviously just looking around this site.) Thanks for the share!
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Do you ever have plans on switching to Thesis? Are you going to cave into the pressure of having an even cooler looking blog and get it one day? Let me know. :p
Hi Alex,
I don’t use Thesis myself, but if I was I would really be happy to find resources like the ones you just provided in this article!
I think a lot of Thesis users (or soon to be) will thank you a lot for that!
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I hope they do too Nicolas!
I kind of feel bad for writing something that not too many readers can relate to at the moment, but this post just had to happen.
No no no! Alex don’t feel bad!
This is very good actually! Remember this is your blog, and what makes it unique and valuable is the personality you put into it, which includes one likes and dislikes.
Today you felt like sharing with us your passion for “Thesis” and somehow, it makes me feel that I know you a bit better through that!
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Alex,
Thanks for this great tutorial. We just upgraded to Thesis on our site, and your advice is useful as we think of ways to tweak our layout and functionality.
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Awesome Aaron, I’m glad you stopped by. I saw one of your links get tweeted on Twitter and I thought your blog design was really nice. I’m glad you don’t stick to the regular serif fonts like the rest of us, but instead you go with Courier New for the headings. :p
Thanks. We’re currently debating whether to play around with our post footers like yours. Stay tuned.
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Hey great I just guessed that this is thesis theme only after seeing the comment section of the blog. Great customization Alex. Loved your theme
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Thanks Harish, I’m glad the fact that this blog uses Thesis wasn’t that obvious to you. Makes me feel accomplished, as that was one of the goals with the design.
Congratz Alex. Really I could not notice that this is thesis. Until I saw the comments section. Great keep your work
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Great job alex
Alex, Blogussion is rockin’ the Thesis Theme admirably. If it wasn’t for the footer credit (and the big yellow ad), few visitors would recognize this as a Thesis site – which is one of the main points behind Thesis. It can be any layout you want. Very well done.
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Thanks a lot Phil, you customized your theme a lot too I see!
Wow great tips! You made Thesis very unique on this blog… me as well, I really like the styling of the post footer! Keep up the good job!
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Marko, you were the whole reason I bought Thesis in the first place. I’m very glad you like what I did here man, thanks for stopping by!
I’ve come across a couple blogs talking about thesis. Wow, people either love it or hate it – no middle of the road indifference. I think its great that you have offered so much help to people wanting to customize – I hope your generosity comes back to you ten-fold.
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Thesis is kind of like a movie – There’s so much hype about it and when you finally get around to go see it, you either love it or hate it. At first I hated Thesis because I couldn’t figure out the hook system. But after using it for a while, I fell in love with it.
This post is only the beginning of my Thesis articles here. When I learn more about using Thesis, I can write a lot more great stuff on it.
Alex I love what you guys are doing here. You’ve always got something interesting and I enjoy watching this blog develop. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing some of the great features you’ve enabled for this site. Very cool.
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Alex, great post! I’m very impressed with your Thesis customizations, easily one of the best I’ve seen. I’d love to see you add to this post! Thanks a lot for your help and resources.
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So these codes are strictly for thesis themes, correct?
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Well, the functions are, but you can take the codes inside them and use them on your own blog.
So basically take out the lines:
function functionName() { ?>then the endi
< ?phpand the brackets at the end and you can use it on non Thesis blogs.Hi Alex,
Very helpful post as I am creating my first site with Thesis.
You most definitely have style as does your site! Well done!
Been meaning to drop by and say that you’ve really done an outstanding job here, Alex.
Hope you’re enjoying your vacation and we’ll be looking forward to seeing your Thesis projects in the future!
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Woah, Mitch – thanks man. I love DIYNinjas, you guys do some great work. Really glad you stopped by!
I am REALLY loving the post footer code you have made here Alex:
Would you mind if I used this code and customized it for my purposes?
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Absolutely! That’s why I posted it here, so you guys can modify it as much as you want. Just check out what Matt up there did, he edited it a ton. Go for it, and let me know what you come up with!
Well I did it!
I am now running Thesis full time on The Niche Store Journey.
The design is not anything mind-blowing, but the readability and function of the site are much better than with my freebie theme.
I will continue to tweak Thesis when I learn new methods!
I implemented your post footer stuff, check it out and let me know what you think!
Looks awesome dude! Aren’t you glad you made the switch?
Wow. I can across your site today. I couldn’t believe it was built on thesis. I am looking to revamp my site and have been debating on a magazine theme like Branford Mag or something. I’ve been working with thesis at my office, but don’t personally own it.
After seeing that a magazine type layout is possible on thesis and seeing this site I think I’m sold now! Now I have to figure out how to play with it while not letting everyone see. I will think just a bit more before buying.
Thanks for the tips. Excellent site!
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Thanks for presenting the nice facts and information.
Help me lot in editing the thesis.
I was wondering how you made your comments. When I use firebug and explore them I see things like .surround ul li, ul.children, commentlist, div.surround. Things that aren’t in the custom.css
How did you put those selectors in there?
Site looks awesome! I’m digging the header and nav bars – Very Jealous.
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Hey, thanks for the great tips. I’m working through them one by one and it’s really helpful to have resources like yours.
One note: I was trying to implement the custom 404 page, and couldn’t get it to work. After some serious head-scratching, I realized that the quote marks in your sample code are “curly quotes.” Once I changed those to straight single quotes, everything worked great.
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Hi,
I copied your details for post footer and made some changes here and there (I’m only showing the Powered by and Subscribe box). I am struggling to get the boxes to show correctly next to each other with the ‘Leave a comment’ to be on a new line and to the left and under the two sections. You will see in Fx that it appears in the middle of the line.
I would like the 2 boxes next to each other and to be any size in height and the div around it must cater for it.
If you email me I will email you the details I have used (CSS and function). I would appreciate your help on this as I like this little hack.
Pls view one of my posts.
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So, let me get this right – you want the subscribe box and the “powered by” box to be on the same line next to each other?
You will need to do the following in your CSS
Add this code to the box you want to float left:
#leftFloat { float: left; width: 50%; }
and this to the box you want to float right:
#rightFloat { float: right width: 50%; }
Hi there I’m pretty new to php more of a graphics person.
I’m trying to implement your first tweak
1. Adding a cool post footer
I’ve done it fine but where I have:
You May Also Be Interested In…
*Similar Posts Code Here
*should this not be dragging in content automatically?
Well, you need to replace *Similar Posts Code Here with the code that will show your similar posts. It depends on what plugin you use, bu I recommend you use: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/similar-posts/
What a great post, thank you.
I have had joy so far in copying the code across (just need to style it now) but I don’t know where to find the ‘Similar Post’ code you mentioned? I have installed the plug-in you recommended, but don’t know where the code is mentioned.
Thank you again.
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Use this code:
< ?php similar_posts(); ?>Good luck Richard, glad you liked this article!
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Is YARPP classed at that?
I believe so, yes.
Ok so I’ve gone with your recommendation and I’ve placed this into the custom functions file
It’ s not showing anything though? Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Ok I’ve got them to show but they are showing directly under the post and not in the area you have them?
How to I put that right? Do you have the settings I need for the Similar Post plugin
Can you maybe give me a link so I can help you better?
Adam,
Your after post footer looks good, but the reason there are no links yet may be because you only have a total of 4 posts on your blog.
The YARPP may not have enough data to even work. Check the settings in YARPP too.
I’m no expert, just trying to help.
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Good solution. I am not familiar with YARPP, so I guess I never would have figured that out.
Sure it’s not finished yet though:
http://www.whatisplr.co.uk/private-label-rights-websites/recommended-plr-websites/
Go into your CSS and add:
.custom #comments { clear: both; }
I’ve added that to the custom css file correct?
It’s made space for the links but they aren’t showing?
Any idea about my last post Alex?
Looks like everything is working?
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I would definitely have to say I am one of the ones that LOVE the thesis theme.
I was a bit intimidated at first glance but quickly found my way around and gave already converted one site and am very pleased.
I started with the personal package but after a week with that I upgraded to the developers package so I can use it on my other blogs as well.
I love Thesis too, and like you, I started out on the Personal license. But I got it up and running here and just said that I had to keep using this on my other blogs! I got the Developers License, and now I am putting all of my design clients on Thesis.
Hi Alexia your post are really gud i implemented Author Bio to my thesis theme successfully but i need some change in ~1. Adding a cool post footer ~ in this part you have explained adding a widget below the post in that i need only 2 widget i.e “Subscribe Now” and another one is “Powered by Thesis” and i don’t won’t to add “similar post” please give the tutorial how to do this the same question is asked by George Serradinho in comment but you have not given code here. please tell me how to do that.
Is #3 Add Custom Info to Featured Post now a bit out of date? It looks like blogussion now has 2 Featured Posts with 14 Teasers.
Perhaps you’ve changed to 2 Featured posts since you wrote this post?
Great job on the site. Thesis rocks!
Brian
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Well, technically we have 2 featured posts now, so it’s not outdated! It will just add the same code to both of the posts.
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks for sharing this; hopefully it will look as good on my blog as it does on your blog
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Its up on my blog now and looks great. I ran into a problem on #4, since I let Thesis automatically resize the images to thumbnails, it never created the “thesis_thumb” custom field, so it wouldn’t show the thumbnails anywhere. It was a bad idea for me to let thesis to do that automatically since the image size would be big for a little picture and makes it look ’squashed’/unprofessional, I’m manually doing the thumbnails from now on
Thanks again.
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Ah, that sucks!
Just a question, how does Thesis automatically do it? Like, I never tried it, I am just curious. What are the steps you take so Thesis does this automatically?
You would only need to enter the url of the full sized image in the “post image URL” field and leave the “thumbnail image URL” field blank. Thesis has a built-in feature that auto-resizes the image which can be configured in the “Thesis Options” page
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Ah, I thought that was the problem!
There must be a way to edit the code to put the automatically resized thumbnail in, because it’s one of the best features I’ve found.
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If you run out of options, then just use {custom:thesis_image} in the image src instead of {custom:thesis_thumb}.
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Hi! I tried to implement your #4-tutorial – but no images are showing up :S I think it could be related to the same issue Abdul is describing – I use Thesis´ post image function – but I am not able to fetch images, either with thesis_thumb or thesis_image. Any suggestions?
Thanks Abdul, I’m sure they will look great!
Hi there – I’m with Erik. I’ve got this post footer working beautifully, except for the thumbnails by Similar Posts. I tried both thesis_thumb and thesis_image. So… If you know of a fix, I’d love to hear it!
Thanks so much for this tutorial – it’s insanely helpful and well-written!
Hi there — Anything new on how to get the thumbnails to show in the Similar Posts plugin? I’m still working on it and can’t figure it out.
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Just figured it out, in case any one else has issues. I used thesis_post_image and it worked.
Thanks again for a great tutorial!
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Hey there Alex.
I was just wondering what code you used to display the Similar Posts plugin in that section in the ‘Post Footer’. I’ve tried but it’s not having it.
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It’s Rob Marsh’s ‘Similar Posts’ Plugin. I’m using it on my blog and working perfectly
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Thanks Abdul.
Ok, got it working perfectly now. I must have set some of the exclusion settings and it wasn’t picking anything up.
Now I have to find out why the thumbnails aren’t showing >_>
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How would I go by adding more teasers? I want to display more posts on the home page
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What do I have to change with the author code to put it in OpenHook? I already have things in the after-post section and I want this to show up before it.
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Excellent tutorials, thanks for sharing this with us. T
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Thank a lot !
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Very useful information for a Thesis newbie like me. Thanks.
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Hey!
Very informative site.
Btw, I was trying to install Rob Marsh’s plugins but it doesn’t seem to work on the latest version of Wordpress?
I cant see the options in Settings ? Popular Posts ? Output after I activated the plugin.
Any idea?
Hi Alex,
Can u share the ’similar post’ code which we can put here :
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Similar Posts Code Here
Thanks
p/s : Are u using related post plugin? or just depending on the code?
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Hi,
Using the custom functions file for changes is quick and easy and there are loads of tutorials and tips. Thanks for sharing your tips
Thanks again for this great post. It’s the second time I have used it but this time I seem to have run into a spot of bother and wondered if you know the answer to what’s happening.
For some reason the sidebars now appear below the comments section – the site address is http://blog.mybusinesslwyer.co.uk.
As you will see, every thing is fine on the home page but the problem happens when you open a post.
Any help is hugely appraiated.
Thanks again, Richard
I would love to know how you guys are doing the “You May Also Be Interested In…” section on this site. That is something I am interested in and think it looks awesome.
Alex’s tutorial for the similar posts thing is here.
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Thanks Adam!
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Hey! Great post. How did you get the thumbnails in next to your similar posts? I’ve been searching around for a way to do it and can’t seem to make it work . I’d love to know how you styled it!
Wow okay. I rescind my question!! Guess I didn’t read close enough – this post has so many comments I must have just scrolled right past that part.
Great article Alex, I will definitly use some of these links as I plan on adding some “new” things to my wonderful thesis theme.
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Great stuff, Alex.
You’re a champion.
I do have a query, however. Can i call a random quote generator to place content in the blue ‘custom’ thesis affiliate box?
If so, how?
Thanks.
BTW, this is a remarkable amount of knowledge you have. Kinda makes me feel like I’m a plumber at a Atomic Physicist’s convention.
Have been considering using Thesis for a while. Just wondering, is it easy to customize the header with thesis? Like maybe change it to a logo or soemthing?
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Andi,
Inserting a logo into the header is possibly one of the easiest things to do in thesis.
There are a million tutorials on how to do it if you have trouble.
If you’re willing to play around with some css you’ll absolutely love thesis.
I am having a bit of trouble to show the thumbnails for some reason. Hope you have some advise on this?
Hey Alex, nice post, lots of cool additions, some I have used, some I havent, but im sure to give the rest a try shortly. Keep up the good work.
D
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Thanks Alex, this was incredibly helpful!!
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This theme looks really great. Nice work and keep on. If you make more send me an email. I am always looking for good themes.
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Can you help me make author info box only? I tried to remove some in the code but it does not work properly. Thanks
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You have such an awesome theme! Man… I wish I could be as creative as you! I have Thesis, but I have no clue how to even make it even remotely look as great as this site! This is very inspiring! Thank you!
- Jes
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You have such an awesome theme! Man… I wish I could be as creative as you! I have Thesis, but I have no clue how to even make it even remotely look as great as this site! This is very inspiring! Thank you!
- Jes
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Wow! This site is one of the best Thesis customizations I’ve seen. Awesome job! I’ve added Blogussion to my Thesis Theme showcase over at ThesisTheme.net so my readers can see just what is possible with Thesis. Keep up the good work!
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hey Alex u r really awesome i m really happy that i found ur site,was almost going to give up on thesis.
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Hey Alex!
I’ve tried to set up the popular posts with thumbnails on my site and have run into a couple of issues. Will your instructions work if you allow Thesis to auto resize the thumbnails? This is what I am having trouble with.
1. Only one of my posts showed the thumbnail. This was the only post where I entered a separate, resized thumbnail image for that post instead of letting Thesis automatically resize them for me.
2. The alignment of the text link and the thumbnail image is out of whack. Any suggestion how to fix that?
Blogussion rocks!
Great post! i have been looking for this read bad! cheers
Great… Glad you could find it! Make sure to check out all of our other posts on thesis customization.
will do Seth
, good luck
Great stuff you have here. I’m running into an odd problem with the custom css and custom php files. I open them with Notepad++ to add your code, but for some reason the text editor is amending the file names – for example, when I open custom.css, it appears in my text editor with the name ‘1-custom.css’. Would you know how to fix this werid behavior?
I can’t seem to save them, either.
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Ok, I installed the Thesis OpenHook plugin and now I can edit both the custom.css and custom_functions.php files right in the dashboard. I got the post footer, but how do you insert your name and avatar and such in the code? I haven’t a clue where those things go or how to “word” them in the code.
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Anyone?
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From what I understand of the code the key to the avatar and name/description is by going to “user” then to your profile. Add your description their and when you enter your full name it will appear with the description.
For the avatar the key is to go to wordpress.com and create a profile. Once you have a profile their it will be universal throughout all of your wordpress blogs, and whenever you comment. Then the avatar will appear based upon the code from the custom.php file.
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Doug,
I think you need to visit gravatar.com to set up your avatar. WP will pull that avatar based on the email acct you or your visitors use in the comments. No extra code is needed on your blog based on your Thesis theme. I’m using Thesis too.
As for your other questions about the custom.css and custom_functions.php, you might want to try the Forums on DIYThemes.com
Nice logo and design BTW!
~brian
The wording for the code specifically is….
< ?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_id() , 100 ); ?>
Article by
< ?php the_author_firstname(); ?> < ?php the_author_lastname(); ?>
< ?php the_author_description(); ?>
< ?php the_author_firstname(); ?> has written < ?php the_author_posts(); ?> awesome articles for us.
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Thanks for the great design tips! I just had one question about the customer post footer function.
The function for the custom post footer calls for the similar posts code. I’ve installed the similar posts plugin and looked everywhere for the code but I’m not finding it. So, for someone who doesn’t know what he’s doing, were do I find the code needed to make the similar post function work in the custom post footer?
I am trying my darndest to see all the comments here, because I know there’s some in here with code I need, but I’m only able to see the first 19 (the beginning of the comments section says there’s 114). So I’m hoping that by leaving this comment, I’ll be able to see the rest…
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Hmm… Doesn’t look like it. Basically, the code to make the thumbnail show in Similar Posts doesn’t work. And I thought I remembered someone mentioning something about replacing the
custom:thesis_thumbpart.So if anyone has any ideas, I’m all ears!
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Thanks for the customizations.. could you tell me how to add footer..
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Footers are found at Asnio.com by just clicking on freebies in the menu.
Thanks for the info Alex.
I’m new to blogging and THESIS Theme so I am reaching out to sites like yours for more info.
In fact, I can’t seem to get CommentLuv to work in the latest build of THESIS (1.6) right now. Is this a problem anyone else is having?
Nothing shows up on the site no matter what I do.
Any thoughts? The site is http://www.uniquegiftsforteens.com
Thanks,
Bill
actually, i was getting bored of watching traditional THESIS theme…..your blog and the tweaking you have done to this theme is very very refreshing
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Am facing an issue. am only using the author box, and when i hover on the Name of author, it shows the link of current page only. and if i click on it, it opens the current page only again. how do i fix this?
check this out urself. it doesnt reads that href coding, cause no matter i change the href link, it still shows the same page:(
http://www.techparaiso.com/retain-the-smooth-scrolling-in-newer-windows-mobile-phone-os-builds-with-restricted-scrolling/
its something i’ve been looking for everywhere but couldnt find.
and thax for such nice trick.
Hi all, I’m Rudy.. could someone visit my blog and give me your suggestion to make make blog nice looking.. becuse I don’t know about html coding… please
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I would add some color to your blog! Also its not very inviting for return visitors with so many ads.
Nice work Alex. We still have you in the que to do some work for us.
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Hey Alex, Great post.
For some reason though, the thumbnails are not working in my related post plug-in. From what I can tell I followed all the directions correctly, and the thumbnails show up find on the teasers on my blog. The plug-in works fine in every way but the thumbnails.
Thanks for all the help with Thesis!
Do you know what’s wrong?
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I like the Popular posts with thumbs in right sidebar. Thanks for sharing thisis customization.
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Hi Buddy!
Finally this one worked for me! thank you so much! i have 1 question thought, where do i get the ’simular post code’ from? i have the plugin already but all i know is thats for the side bar, how can i find the code?
thanks for your time and help!
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Please ignore my stupid question! maybe if i had of taken the time to read in the comments!
lol
i was so in a rush i just posted the question but then i thought to myself, “if i have that problem then maybe others would of as well” so read through the comments and found the answer to my own question…
I’m a total newbie when it comes to wordpress, css and html let alone thesis hooks etc, but after getting thesis for about 1 week now, your blog has been instrumental in my thesis devlopment!
Thank you BLOGUSSION!
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is it ok if i compress my css custom with css compressor, just for faster load my blog ?
I see that you don’t have links to recent comments. Sometimes, it helps to see at a glance the posts that other readers have found useful and their comments listed.
Is that something you plan to do?
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Alex, great tips!
Just a note: the 404 code has “curly quotes” in it rather than straight ones, so the code didn’t work when I first pasted it into the functions file. I had to replace all the apostrophes in the text editor to get it to work.
Thanks Alex, I really enjoy reading your articles. I just recently started a blog about adoption fraud. Not a profitable subject to say the least but one close to my heart. I’m currently in the planning stages for a new blog that I hope to monetize at some point and absolutely love the thesis framework. When I’m ready I’ll be sure to purchase through your link. Keep up the great work.
You are so generous. I really appreciate how you have shared your codes. It would be of great help when we migrate to Thesis theme next month. Thanks a ton buddy
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All the tips are really very helpful for newbeis like me.Thank You
Hi!
I use Thesis OpenHook and I’m having some trouble to remove the “function” and the “add_action” in order yto make it work. Can you help?
You’re very talented. I love your stuff.
Thanks you in advance.
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Still trying to implement a cool footer, but my newb-ism is hampering my efforts. Just gotta keep grinding my nose on this keyboard till I get it. Much appreciated for the tutorial.
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Dancing on my laptop, thank you for the tremendous code on the post footer…took a bit of tweaking for my Efficient Related post plugin to surrender to my wishes but I got it to work despite my css ignorance. Again thank you to the 10th degree of fingertips.
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hello everyone.., great place this blogussion!
I have a question maybe not to related to the post but more to thesis designing.
The scenario looks like this:
I’ve added a function the other day which uses the “thesis_hook_after_headline” hook.
I wannit to add this post rating plugin for wordpress and so I build the function:
function post_rating()
{
if (is_single()) { ?>
<?php }
}
add_action('thesis_hook_after_headline', 'post_rating');
everything was great until I tried to give it some style through the custom_css file.
So, the question is how do I access this function or this hook through css?
What i tried is something like:
.post_rating {
text-align: right;
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:5px;
}
or
.custom .post_rating {
text-align: right;
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:5px;
}
and there were a few other ways I tried it but non of was effective
so the part which I don’t know is:
.custom .post_rating { - is this place here
text-align: right;
padding-top:5px;
padding-bottom:5px;
}
I would really appreciate it if someone had some solutions or the answer.
thanks in advance.
I just purchased Thesis as well. I’m definitely going to try to implement a few of these techniques. Do you have any other good resources on Thesis for someone who doesnt have any/much programming experience? Much appreciated, thanks!
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Is this great or what – I have been going crazy trying to change the default 404 message. The new custom 404 Page looks great – thanks Alex!
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Hii Alex, I have a question. Can you help me?.
I’m using thesis and I want thesis auto generate thumbnail image for my post and display it into front page. But I can’t. Hopy you will help me. Thank you very much
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Hi,
could somebody help me to solve the problem of duplicate links next to my thumbnails of popular posts links.
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Thank you!
I use this trick for my blog, but i am having a problem. The text beside the thumbs are not placed correctly, they are bad aligned. How can i fix this?
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excellent tutorial….implemented all 4 of them…Well btw I liked the share box in the content box at the top..looks innovative…great work Alex..keep it up..!
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