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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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Thesis WordPress Theme is now GPL

July 23, 2010

The damaging dispute between Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg has abated as Chris has decided to change his terms of service and put Thesis PHP code under the GNU Public License Version 2 to bring it in line with other WordPress themes. The Intellectual Property License section now reads: Thesis General PHP License The PHP [...]

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Will GPL Enforcement Split The WordPress and Thesis Communities?

July 19, 2010

If you are a user of WordPress and a user of the Thesis Theme then you really to check out the remarkable discussion between Matt Mullenweg, head honcho of WordPress, and Chris Pearson, author of Thesis which took place on July 14 and was ably refereed by Andrew Warner. I have great respect for both [...]

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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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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 Hack Thesis To Have More Than Two Teasers Per Row

November 19, 2009

I have a client who has specific requirements regarding their home and archive pages: the home page needed to show 3 teasers with titles and thumbnails but no text; and the archive page needed to show a single teaser per row that included title, thumbnail and text excerpt. Out of the box, Thesis shows two [...]

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Why use the WordPress Thesis Theme?

November 4, 2009

Ten Reasons To Choose Thesis as Your WordPress Theme Thesis is not just any theme, it is a Theme Customization Framework. It has been designed to make it much easier to style WordPress to make your site look the way you want, and also to customize WordPress to add the features you want. 1. Good [...]

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