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Part 4 – Add the sidebar to our page

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Part 2 – Register the sidebar

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Introduction to Making Custom Sidebars in Thesis

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Thesis is designed from the ground up to be easily customized. One very flexible method of customization includes creating custom sidebars in Thesis. A “sidebar” is WordPress speak for “widgetized area”, that is some location on the page where you can drop widgets. In this tutorial we’re going to learn the basics of sidebars and [...]

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Part 1 – The HTML structure of a Thesis Sidebar

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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 Add Background Color to a Sidebar so that it Extends to the Bottom of the Page

In this session a member wants to know how to add background color to a sidebar so that it extends to the bottom of the page on his full-width framework site. We show how to use a background image for the entire page that includes the sidebar color and content area color. We use Photoshop [...]

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Part 3 – Build the dynamic sidebar

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How to Add a Background Color to the Sidebar that Extends to Bottom of the Content

In this session we show how to make the background color of the sidebar extend to the bottom of the content. To accomplish that, we show how to create a background image to use instead of a background color. We use our Thesis Full Width Backgrounds plugin to add the image and then we set [...]

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Lesson 11 – Part 1 – Register the Sidebars (Widget Ready Areas)

Register the Sidebars (Widget Ready Areas) Welcome to Lesson 11 of the Build Your Own E-Commerce Website tutorial series. The goal of this tutorial series is to show you how to create a fully functional e-commerce website using WordPress, Thesis and WP eStore. In this lesson we’re going to flesh out the footer with custom [...]

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Lesson 11 – Part 2 – Create the Dynamic Sidebars (Widget Ready Areas)

Build the Dynamic Sidebars Welcome back to Part 2 of this lesson on creating a footer with dynamic sidebars. In this second part of the lesson we are going to actually create the dynamic sidebars. Go to WordPress that is wordpress.org and we’ll come up here to search the codex and we are going to [...]

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Lesson 11 – Part 3 – Add Styling to the Widget Areas

Add Styling to the Widget Areas Welcome back to Part 3 of this lesson on creating the fat footer with multiple widget areas. In this part of the lesson we are going to add styling to the widget areas with the CSS that makes these stacked widget areas go side by side in the footer [...]

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Thesis Sidebars – Reconfigure Sidebars Without a Custom Template

Thesis 1.8 now features a method of reconfiguring the sidebars without using custom templates. Girlie has posted on the DIY Themes Forum that describes a method of dynamically selecting sidebars and sidebar configurations without using a custom template. That forum thread can be found here. This can be used along with my blog post on [...]

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Video 5 – Add Thesis sidebar 2 to your custom template

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Configure Custom Sidebars and Custom Templates

It this video we have a rather rambling discussion of how to use custom sidebars and custom templates to change up the page layout within a site. We also discuss the impact of making changes to an existing site and look at resources for learning how to do the various customization tasks. Video Transcript Rick: [...]

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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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