April 13th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . We used to not cover Thesis here at all. We considered it to be difficult for newbies to master. Many folks who pick up Thesis have unrealistic expectations anyway. Since adopting the Thesis theme, we are very impressed with how easy it is to customize. In order to customize your Thesis theme, you need to know your way around hooks. Knowing your CSS and PHP is a good idea too. These 7 plugins enhance Thesis’ features and let you get even more out it:
SEO Data Transporter: one of the biggest challenges of adopting the Thesis theme is transporting your SEO options from your old theme. This plugin is designed to handle that part. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading April 8th in Premium Themes, Themes for Pro Bloggers by Wordpress Jedi . If you have been in the business of blogging and have not heard of Thesis theme so far, you have missed on a whole lot of awesomeness. There are plenty of pro blogging premium themes for WordPress that can help you start a new blog or give your blog a makeover for less. But Thesis is without a doubt at the very top when it comes to ease of use, potential, and customizability. Thesis 1.7 is the latest edition of Thesis WordPress theme and has gotten a huge boost of power to help pro bloggers focus more on what’s important for their business and worry less about issues with their theme.
The developers behind Thesis have focused on providing a set of powerful features to WordPress bloggers to help them customize the look and feel of their blogs easily and optimize their web sites for search engines in the process. So you don’t necessarily have to hard code any on-page optimization tactics to get your WordPress website ready for the search engines. Thesis 1.6 already covered a lot of these options under the options page in the back-end. But Thesis 1.7 has improved a lot in that area and does seem a bit more organized.
Thesis 1.6 Options Page
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Thesis 1.7 Site Options Page
Thesis 1.7 has some of these options broken down into various sections. So customization options for the home page have moved to a whole different page (to make the whole process less confusing). So these features have not disappeared if you are comparing the two images above. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading January 26th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi . In case you haven’t heard, Thesis for WordPress is one of the most flexible solutions on the market for those who are looking for a premium theme. Thesis theme is not only very easy to implement, it’s easy to customize and enhance as well. Thesis theme is designed with web-designers in mind. Not only it makes it easy for designers to save time, the underlying code is highly optimized and very clean.
Thesis takes advantage of hooks to help you optimize every aspect of your blog, including its look and feel. If you are familiar with coding and know how to work with hooks, you are in business. But there are a lot of people who are not and want a simple solution that helps them change things around on your blog. Thankfully, there are plugins that help you do just that. If you are looking for a simple way to change things around on your Thesis blog, here are 4 plugins you should install:
Thesis Openhook: it’s a wonderful plugin that lets you work with Thesis’ hooks without having to read the manual. Even if you have never used hooks before, you won’t find too much trouble using this plugin. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading January 3rd in Free Plug-ins, Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . I have been recommending Thesis as the theme to own if you want to start your WordPress blog fast without having to worry about the underlying code. Thesis is a light-weight and powerful platform that enables you to start your blog fast and have the ability to customize it easily down the road. Light-weight themes are not designed to be flashy and colorful. They are designed to be easily customizable, so you can enhance them without having to start coding from scratch.
Thesis is very SEO friendly and can save you a lot of time. But getting a handle of the framework can take a bit of time, especially if WordPress programming is not your cup of tea. You can always read the instructions that you receive when you purchase the theme to master the hooks, but there are easier ways to customize your thesis theme. Thesis OpenHook is a cool plugin that takes the pain out of the process and makes customizing Thesis for WordPress a piece of cake. Once you install this plugin, you are going to see the below items added to your admin dashboard. From there you can customize the look and feel of your Thesis install without knowing too much about the hooks.
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Continue Reading September 26th in Wordpress News by Wordpress Jedi . For those of your Thesis fans, you may want to take time to download your copy of Thesis 1.6 to get a head start over everyone else who doesn’t have a developer’s license. The new Thesis has improved in many areas. For starters, Thesis has got its own menu now in your dashboard. That’s one of the minor issues that I had with the theme, and the developers seem to have resolved the issue.
The Design Options page is not too different from the previous version, but it’s the place to tackle if you want to change the look and feel of your blog.
Custom File Editor makes it easy to further customize your theme, though you are going to make a small change to one of the files you receive in your installation kit to get it fully working.
Thesis 1.6 is a decent upgrade over the previous version, and I truly believe we are reaching the “golden age” of Thesis. It can only get better from here. Thesis may be a lightweight theme, but it’s hands down the best option to go with if you want to customize and develop your own theme. Keep in mind that you can’t get Thesis 1.6 unless you have a developer license. It can only be downloaded from the developer’s interface at this point, but you can also wait a bit and get it once its released to everyone.
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