Case Study – Community News

This is a 16 part case study where we create a Thesis based community news website and show how to use Permalinks, Custom Post Types, Category Display Order, Custom Post Meta for Events, Custom Loops, and Events Display.

We have been building a community news site as a case study.  On that site we are using a custom post type for each community.  Thus the Edmonds community has the “Edmonds News” post type and the Seattle community has the “Seattle News” post type. In this video we set up and configure a permalink [...]

This is part 6 in our case study demonstrating the use of Thesis as a CMS with a Community News Site. We are using custom post types for each community and now are creating a community “posts” page where those custom post types will be displayed.  We demonstrate in this video: Creating the pages that [...]

This is the eighth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community news site. Here we discuss how to enable the Thesis meta in the custom post types in the community new website. Thesis meta enables the [...]

This is the tenth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community news site. This video explains how to add a category display order. Ordinarily categories are displayed by category id or alphabetically. We use the My [...]

This is the 12th in a series on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community news site. In this lesson we will create a static page to display our events sorted by the event date. In other words we are creating a custom [...]

This is the 14th in a series on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community news site. We have created a static page to display our events sorted by the event date. This page displays all events, regardless of event date. Now we [...]

This is the 16th in a series on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this case study we are creating a community news site. We have created a static page to display our upcoming events sorted by the event date. Now we are going to add the display of the [...]