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How to Create Different Themes for the Same Thesis Website

This member asks what is the best way to create different themes for the same website. The objective is to replicate a website but to entirely change it’s appearance. I discuss the default method of doing that in Thesis, I show how I organize a Thesis based skin and I discuss child themes. Select the [...]

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The Difference Between Thesis 1.8.4 and Genesis 1.8.0

In this session, we discuss the fundamental differences between Thesis and Genesis. We focus on the amount of time and work it takes to achieve a certain level of appearance and how much customization and flexibility are built into the themes.

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Lesson 1 – Understanding Child Themes

These videos are now available for viewing. Course Introduction Watch the course introduction on the main lesson page What is Responsive Design? – Watch the Video Basic – Generic – Definition Different views of a website Various approaches to making a site responsive Device detection can redirect to a mobile site can add javascript to [...]

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Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Child Themes in WordPress

Lesson 1 – Part 2 – Child Themes in WordPress

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Lesson 1 - Part 3 - An Example Using Twentyeleven

Lesson 1 – Part 3 – An Example Using Twentyeleven

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Lesson 1 - Part 4 - Child Themes in Thesis

Lesson 1 – Part 4 – Child Themes in Thesis

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Lesson 6 - Part 4 - Genesis Parent Theme & Child Theme

Lesson 6 – Part 4 – Genesis Parent Theme & Child Theme

If you have any experience of working in WordPress and using themes, you’re familiar with the idea of installing a theme, however, Genesis uses something called Child Themes. A Child Theme is not something that Genesis invented, it was in fact invented by WordPress. Child Themes are a way of augmenting an existing theme. What [...]

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Lesson 1 - Part 5 - Mapping out the Blue Masters Child Theme

Lesson 1 – Part 5 – Mapping out the Blue Masters Child Theme

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Lesson 6 - Part 5 - Types of Child themes

Lesson 6 – Part 5 – Types of Child Themes

There a variety of types of Child Themes and because I teach people how to build business websites, my focus is on Child Themes that would be suitable for small business sites. I’ve categorized Child Themes into 3 groups. In fact, I have several handouts on the site. If we come over here to Lesson [...]

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Lesson 6 - Part 6 - Why Use the Agency Child Theme

Lesson 6 – Part 6 – Why Use the Agency Child Theme

The next thing we’re going to do is talk about why we’re using the Agency Child Theme in this series. Why Do We Use the Agency Child Theme? The first reason is because it has a small business orientation, that is it has a static front page design that is not dependent upon blog posts, [...]

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Lesson 6 - Part 8 - Installing the Agency Child Theme

Lesson 6 – Part 8 – Installing the Agency Child Theme

The next thing we’re going to do is download and install Agency. Actually, we’ve already downloaded it but now we’re going to install the Agency Child Theme. Install the Agency Child Theme Installing the child theme is exactly the same thing as installing a regular theme. We just come back over to Appearance and Themes, [...]

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