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Troubleshooting Thesis Custom Templates

We troubleshoot a number of issues in a member’s custom template. We cover column layout, applying custom CSS, applying multiple custom temples to multiple pages, and displaying varying content in the sidebar.

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Thesis Custom Templates

Thesis bypasses the standard WordPress template system in favor of its own for creating custom templates. Learn the differences between Thesis and WordPress custom templates, how Thesis uses custom templates and the three types of customization available in Thesis.

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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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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts

Learn how to create templates for Posts. We’ll show how to use Thesis hooks and filters, custom body classes, and CSS for the task.

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Troubleshooting Thesis Custom Templates – Part 2 – Column Layout

The member has a Thesis custom template but needs to have custom CSS to make it look right. The site is set up as a 3 column layout while the custom template is a 2 column layout. We troubleshoot this in Firefox using Firebug and Web Developer. We write the css code to make this [...]

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Thesis Custom Templates Part 2 – Do you need a Custom Template to Customize the Appearance of a Specific Page?

The member asks if he needs to use custom templates in order to create a site where each page has similar structure but with different colors. We discuss the various methods of customization of a Thesis website.  I describe the 3 types of customization available in Thesis: Customizing using custom classes and CSS Customizing using [...]

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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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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 2 – Remove Sidebars from Posts

This is the second in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this second part we write the function that removes the sidebars from the appropriate posts using the thesis_show_sidebars filter. Video Transcript Step 2 is now to [...]

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Troubleshooting Thesis Custom Templates – Part 3 – Custom Body Classes

This member wants to apply custom CSS statements to all of the pages that use a specific custom template. We discuss how to do that using Thesis custom body classes. Thesis has a built in system of adding a specific CSS class to any individual page. We use the Thesis SEO Details and Additional Style [...]

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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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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 3 – Add Custom Body Class

This is the third in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we write the function that adds a custom body class to each custom template using the thesis_body_classes filter. Video Transcript So that takes us [...]

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Troubleshooting Thesis Custom Templates – Part 4 – Apply to Multiple Pages

The member wants to make his custom template apply to multiple pages. We discuss how to use a conditional statement with multiple page ids to accomplish this. An example of such code is provided below. The code below demonstrates how to create a single function that applies multiple custom templates to multiple pages: Select the [...]

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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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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 4 – Add Custom Sidebars

This is the fourth in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we write the functions that creates the custom sidebars and then adds them to the appropriate post template. Video Transcript So then the next [...]

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Troubleshooting Thesis Custom Templates – Part 5 – Custom Sidebar Content

The member wants to have a specific custom template sidebar and also wants to have varying content in each of those instances of the sidebar. We discuss using a plugin for controlling which widgets are displayed on which pages. Select the link below to watch a high definition version of this video Video Transcript Jason:          [...]

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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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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 5 – Create Minimalist Template

This is the fifth in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we write the function that removes the header, navigation menu and the footer from the template. We use the thesis_show_footer filter to remove the [...]

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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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How to Create Custom Templates For Posts – Part 6 – Write the CSS

This is the sixth and final lesson in a short series on creating custom template styles for posts. We will be using Thesis hooks and filters to create these “post templates”. In this part we create the CSS rules to make our templates layout the way we expect them to. Video Transcript Okay so that [...]

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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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