Learn how to customize the WordPress Next Post and Previous Post links. You’ll learn how Thesis uses the links, how to substitute images for the text in the links, how to use Thesis filters, and how to create and style custom post navigation.
In this session we show how to add the date at the bottom of a single post in Thesis with PHP code. We use a conditional statement to exclude pages and apply the date only to single posts. Here we created the code to be used and explain how the code works.
Adding these tags allows your post image to show up on Facebook when some likes or shares one of your posts. Learn what the tags are and how to use the code to add them, then how to test and verify that the tags are working properly.
We open the custom_functions.php file and go through two of the most basic WordPress PHP functions, add_action and remove_action. We use the example of removing our Thesis Nav Menu from it’s out of the box location above the header and add it back below the Header. We also discuss the what the custom.css file and [...]
Using Comments as Product Reviews Welcome to Lesson 16 of the Build Your Own E-Commerce Website tutorial series. The goal of this tutorial series has been to show you how to create a fully functional e-commerce website using WordPress, Thesis and WP eStore. In this final lesson we’ll learn how to use the WordPress Comment [...]
I believe that one of the most compelling reasons for building your site with Thesis is the relative ease with which custom CSS and custom programming can be added to a Thesis site. An introductory level of CSS, HTML an PHP can get a website owner a very long way. This video tutorial series provides [...]
Use a Thesis Filter to Change the Comment Form Title Welcome back to Part 2 of Lesson 16 of the Build Your Own E-Commerce Website tutorial series. In this second part of the lesson we are going to modify the comment form title and turn comments into product reviews using a Thesis Filter. Let’s take [...]
This is the 2nd in an 8 part series that shows how to customize the Next Post/Previous Post links in Thesis. We start off by looking at the various places this shows up by default in the site and then look at the filters Thesis has for customizing them. Video Transcript And we’re just going [...]
In this session, we talk about and add the specific tags that Facebook will get when you share the post. These are the Title, Image, URL, Description and Site Name. Video Transcript Now, we get down to the types of properties. The first one is the title, that’s the title of this webpage and so [...]
Use a Thesis Filter to Change the Comment Intro Welcome back to Part 3 of Lesson 16 of the Build Your Own E-Commerce Website tutorial series. In this part of the lesson we are going to change the Comment Intro text into a Product Review using a Thesis filter. Identify the Element to Change The [...]
This is the 3rd in an 8 part series that shows how to customize the Next Post/Previous Post links in Thesis. In order to replace the next post and previous posts links with images we first have to remove the Thesis Next Post/Previous Post filters. Video Transcript If instead of that, what we want to [...]
In this session, we test and verify that the Facebook open graph tags work properly. We do this by looking at the page source. Video Transcript Before we do that, I want to show you what this looks like. Let’s come over here to BYOB Website and what we’re going to do is we’ll view [...]
Use a Template Tag to Enhance the Filter Output Welcome back to Part 4 of Lesson 16 of the Build Your Own E-Commerce Website tutorial series. In this part of the lesson we are going to modify the Thesis Filter by using a template tag so that this introduction here is different depending upon what [...]
This is the 4th in an 8 part series that shows how to customize the Next Post/Previous Post links in Thesis. Now that we have removed the Thesis filters we are going to create our own next post/previous post image links. Video Transcript So now we’re going to create our own previous next post but [...]
One of our members was having a trouble with Facebook not showing the image after adding the Facebook open graph tags. In this session, we discuss how Facebook works with images and give the code that we use on byobwebsite.com. The code is shown below. This is the exact code we use on byobwebsite.com
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