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Thesis With More Than Two Teasers In Each Row

September 18, 2010

Having produced an earlier solution for Thesis to have three teasers per row, I have had a few requests for solutions for 4 and even 5 teasers per row. These small teasers are useful where just a title and a thumbnail is to be displayed but no text. The approach I have adopted to keep [...]

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Three Teasers Per Row Without Hacking Thesis

July 14, 2010
Transforming Two Thesis Teasers Per Row To Three Teasers Per Row

As promised this is the non-hack solution to 3 teasers per row problem which involves only changes to custom_functions.php and custom.css- no changes to Thesis core code are required. This version should therefore survive upgrades to Thesis. The solution uses jQuery and applies a simple algorithm. Firstly, remember that Thesis makes a ‘teaser box’ for [...]

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Adding Flickr Photos To Your WordPress Blog

February 15, 2010

Many Ways To Integrate Flickr With WordPress Over the last week, on behalf on a blogging client who has lots of pictures on Flickr, I have been researching different ways on integrating a series of Flickr photos into a WordPress blog. I was looking at two methods of displaying pictures: galleries and slideshows. A gallery [...]

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How To Choose Your WordPress Permalink Structure

January 24, 2010

WordPress Permalink Controversy – SEO versus Performance The choice of Permalink structure in WordPress has prompted a lot of discussion with the ‘experts’ falling into two camps; SEO experts and WordPress purists. Each group makes an logical assessment from their own perspective. Before we get into the differing views, some background on permalinks. What are [...]

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How to Prevent Post Titles Wrapping When Using Thesis Teasers

January 24, 2010

How To Shorten Post Titles that Wrap When Displayed as Teasers When displaying the post title in a teaser, Thesis displays the whole title. This can be too long for the line and hence wrap, which causes the adjacent teasers to be misaligned. This can make the make look a bit untidy: especially in the [...]

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Three Thesis Teasers A Row – Revisited and Improved

January 24, 2010

Problems With Three Teasers Per Row There are a number of issues with my original 3 teasers per row Thesis solution You need to hack(improve) a couple of core Thesis Files You need to hand craft the teaser/excerpt text precisely for the layout to be consistent I have been able to address the second of [...]

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How To Use Featured Content Gallery with Thesis and a Static Front Page

November 24, 2009

Thesis and Featured Content Gallery Does Not Work On A Static Front Page Out of the box there is a big problem when trying to use a Thesis Feature Box on a site with a static Home page where the Feature Box is populated using the Featured Content Gallery plugin. The text for the home [...]

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How To Avoid Pinging Every Time You Update A Post

November 4, 2009

Avoid being inadvertently banned by pinging services for too many updates by using the Ultimate Plugins Smart Update Pinger which only pings when a new post is published and not when an existing post is edited

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