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Create user selectable custom templates in Thesis

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Thesis has an incredibly powerful custom template system. Unlike a typical WordPress theme you don’t need to create a completely new template (that WordPress has to sort through) to change the way your content is displayed. In this tutorial I’m going to demonstrate how to create custom templates that a user can select from their [...]

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How to Create Context Sensitive Sidebars in Thesis

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Thesis makes it quite easy to add context sensitive sidebars to custom templates.  I’m going to demonstrate in this tutorial how to create context sensitive sidebars and apply them to your custom templates.  This tutorial arose out of a question I answered on DIY Themes Forums.  That question can be found here.  I’ve created a demonstration of [...]

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How to incorporate traditional HTML, CSS & Javascript elements in a Thesis Page

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One of our Members asked if there were a way to incorporated traditional HTML, CSS & Javascript elements into a Thesis based post or page. Because WordPress and Thesis are built using PHP, HTML, CSS and Javascript any of these elements can be added to a Thesis page or post. In this tutorial I will [...]

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How to create a 3 column custom template

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Custom page templates with various sidebar configurations is something that folks on the forum ask about a lot.  Someone in this forum post asked if it were possible to have their main Thesis based site use a 2 column layout while having a 3 column layout for their home page. This is inverse question to [...]

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How to Create a Single Sidebar Custom Template

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** Updated 11/1/2010 ** I answered a question this morning that I thought would be useful to post here. The person has a 3 column website with one sidebar on each side of the content column. For the majority of the pages he wants to keep that arrangement. However, on his forum page he wants [...]

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How to change the language displayed based on user input

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A DIY Themes forum member asked today how to switch between languages on a page.  Essentially what they want to do is to have 2 columns side by side, one in English and the other in a language of the user’s choice.  You can see the question and answer here.  This is a really interesting [...]

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