Member Login

You are not currently logged in.






» Register
» Lost your Password?
Login ↓
Home > Categories

Categories

Can You Use Posts for Both a Blog and Announcements Without Showing them All on the Blog?

In this session, we discuss how you can use posts for both your blog and announcements but without showing them all on the blog. You can do that by using one of our plugins, BYOB Thesis Exclude Category From Posts.

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects -

Watch the Video →

How to Exclude Posts from the Blog Page using Categories and Tags

In this session, we begin with a short demonstration on how to use existing WordPress functionality to add categories to the WordPress Menu and to the sidebar using a widget. Then we discuss the ability to exclude posts by category in which case you can use our BYOB Thesis Exclude Categories From Posts plugin. You [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - ,

Watch the Video →

How to Exclude a Category of Posts from the Posts Page Using the BYOB Thesis Exclude Category from Posts Plugin

In this session, we demonstrate how to exclude a category of posts from the Posts Page using the BYOB Thesis Exclude Category From Post Plugin.

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - ,

Watch the Video →

How to Display a List of Blog Categories in the Sidebar

In this session we show the different options for how to display a list of blog categories in the sidebar using the Categories Widget. We also show how to use the Widgets Reloaded plugin to set some additional settings that the default categories setting doesn’t allow you to do.

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects -

Watch the Video →

Community News Case Study Part 1 – Custom Taxonomy vs Custom Post Types

This is the first in a series of live discussions on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). One member asked how to create a “Community News” site so that each community had its own “blog” page or “articles” page. The goal here is to have a site that allows categorization by [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , , , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - ,

Watch the Video →

Community Library Website

Thumbnail image for Community Library Website

This is a 61 part case study on how to set up a community library website, how to organize materials, display them and style the site. Many intermediate techniques are used in this extensive WordPress and Thesis series.

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , , , , , , , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects -

Watch the Video →

How to Organize a Community Library Website

A member asked how she can organize her community library site. She wants regular “what’s happening” blog posts, posts for books, posts for book reviews and a method of organizing and categorizing both books and book reviews. This is very similar to what we are doing in the Community News Case Study. I suggest that [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , , , , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects -

Watch the Video →

Community News Website

Thumbnail image for Community News Website

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.

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , , , , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects -

Watch the Video →

How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog – Part 4 Understanding and Using Categories

This is part four of five in a series on how to configure WordPress and Thesis as a blog. Here we go over the importance of categories as post specific functionality if you are using the ‘blog’ as a blog. Categories allow posts to be hierarchically organized. We discuss how categories help you achieve a [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - ,

Watch the Video →

How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog – Part 5 Understanding and Using Tags

This is part five of five in a series on How to configure WordPress and Thesis as a blog. In this session we discuss the use of tags and categories, how to add tags and how they work in general. Video Transcript Okay so then on to tags. Tags are very similar to, let’s see…oh, [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - , ,

Watch the Video →

Community News Case Study Part 7 – Community News Site Future Refinements

We have been building a community news CMS site in our Live Question and Answer sessions.  This member is offering some additional refinements he’d like to see in the case study website. Currently the site we have constructed has a separate “posts” page that displays all of the custom posts for a given community.  Now [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , ,

Watch the Video →

How to Find the Category ID

There are two ways to find your Category ID. For the first, go to the Dashboard and open up Categories under Posts. A list of your Categories will appear on the screen. When you hover over the Category name the category number shows up on the lower left hand part of the screen. The second [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics -

Listed Under Lesson Subjects -

Watch the Video →

How is SEO for Blogs Different than for Business Websites

Is there a difference between SEO techniques for blogs and SEO techniques for typical static business websites? The concepts remain the same, however, in WordPress, blog posts add the opportunity to refine the semantic nature of your urls, thus potentially improving your performance for your keywords. I discuss how to organize blog posts to take [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - , ,

Watch the Video →

Community News Case Study Part 10 – Create Category Display Order

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 [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - ,

Watch the Video →

How to Add a Category to the Thesis Nav Menu

This member asks how to add a specific category to her menu. She is using the Thesis Nav Menu. I demonstrate how to add a category to the menu using Site Options. Video Transcript Oh, Cathy is here…oh so there you go, Cathy. So Cathy says that she’s created a category in her site called [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - ,

Watch the Video →

Display Only a Single Category of Posts on the Home Page

This member wants to display only a single category of posts on her homepage.  She doesn’t want any of the other posts to be displayed there.  She is using a posts page for her home page rather than a static front page.  I demonstrate how to add custom query variables to the Homepage Loop. Video [...]

Difficulty Level -

Filed Under Topics - , ,

Listed Under Lesson Subjects - ,

Watch the Video →