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Portfolio Website With Horizontally Scrolling Content

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This is a 5 part case study on how to create an Artist’s Portfolio site in Thesis with a horizontally scrolling image display. The site is set up so that the header and footer remain fixed in place as you scroll horizontally through the content. Thesis is uniquely capable of handling this style.

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category

Learn how to create a custom home page that will display the first post from each category on your site. This series involves using a custom template, creating a custom loop, and using the jCapSlide plugin for adding jQuery.

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 2 – Create the Static Front Page

This is the second in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category.  In this second part we create a static front page and give it a custom template.  We briefly discuss what a static front page is. Video Transcript Rick: So what we’re going [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 3 – Create the Custom Loop

This is the third in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category. In this third part we create the custom loop that will display the posts. At this stage we want to display the name of the category and the teaser for the post. [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 4 – Look at jCapSlide

This is the fourth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category. In this fourth part we discuss adding a jQuery effect to the teasers that can be created using the jQuery plugin “jCapSlide”. Video Transcript Rick: Okay so that’s the first step. Then [...]

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Multilingual Website Case Study Part 5 – Add the Language Switching Function

This is the fifth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Multilingual Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we create the function that allows us to switch between different languages. We get the new post meta, we use the new WordPress 3.1 function called “meta_query” and we create [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 5 – How to Use jCapSlide

This is the fifth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin. In this part we discuss the changes in the HTML structure that are needed to format our content so that it will work in jCapSlide. Video [...]

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Community News Case Study Part 6 – Listing Custom Post Types on the Appropriate Page

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 [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 6 – Configure the Loop to Create the Required HTML

This is the sixth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin. In this part we discuss how to reconfigure the custom loop so that it formats the output using the html structure we need for the jQuery [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 7 – Add the jQuery Plugin to the Site

This is the seventh in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin.  In this part we discuss how to add the jQuery plugin to the site. Video Transcript Rick: The other half of how we did it is [...]

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Custom Front Page Loop that Displays One Post from Each Category – Part 8 – Call the jQuery Script

This is the eighth in a short series on creating a custom home page that will display the first post from each category and implement the jCapSlide jQuery plugin. In this part we discuss how to call the jQuery plugin from within our page. Video Transcript Rick: Then step 2 is actually calling that script [...]

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Community News Case Study Part 9 – Display Custom Post Types by Category

This is part 9 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 have created a community “posts” page where those custom post types will be displayed. Next we will display our community posts as organized by [...]

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Community News Case Study – Part 12 – Create a Page with a Custom Loop to Display the Events Sorted by Date

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 [...]

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Community News Case Study – Part 13 – Display Event Date on Teasers

This is the 13th 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. Now we want to display the event date on the event [...]

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Community News Case Study – Part 14 – Show Only Upcoming Events

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 [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 42, Custom Loop to Display Custom Post Types

This is the 42nd in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we create the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We use the WordPress function get_terms() to look at the [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 43, Simple Custom Query

This is the 43rd in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we create the custom loop for our custom catalog page. We start by creating a simple custom query that we will progressively modify until it displays all posts from the last [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 46, Display Posts from the Last 60 Days

This is the 44th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we modify the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We create a “date filter” that will allow us to [...]

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Community Library Website – Part 47, Custom Loop If Have Posts

This is the 47th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we modify the custom loop for our custom catalog page. This custom loop will display recent posts organized by custom taxonomy. We use the “if have posts” conditional statement to exclude [...]

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Community Library Case Study Case Study – Part 48, Increase the Number of Posts that Display on the Custom Catalog

This is the forty eighth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we change the display of posts so that any post that meets the right criteria for the recent posts category will show. Currently only 20 posts are being displayed. We [...]

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