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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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How Pagination Works

We look at the WordPress pagination system and how the next and previous links work in order of pages. By default posts are displayed with the latest post first. Pagination appears to operate backwards with page 1 showing the most recent post, page 2 showing earlier posts and so on. You could set up your [...]

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Community Library Website

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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.

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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 [...]

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The Difference between Post and Pages

In this beginner series we are exploring all the aspects of the WordPress and Thesis interface. In this video we explain the difference between Posts and Pages in WordPress. A post is content that you can categorize and tag and then sort through by categories, tags and dates. A page is content that does not [...]

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Lesson 12 - Part 2 - Organizing Content in WordPress

Lesson 12 – Part 2 – Organizing Content in WordPress

Inherent Organization in WordPress The first part of organizing content in WordPress is the inherent organization that exists in WordPress. By inherent organization what I mean is, organization that exists without you doing anything. WordPress has some organization that is automatic and that is inherent. It also has some organization that requires you to take [...]

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Community News Website

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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.

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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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Watch Week 1 - Part 3 Membership Site Video

Lesson 1 – Part 3 – WordPress Site Structure

Create a Membership Website – Site Structure Before we take questions and before we close, I want to talk briefly about the site structure. Now as you probably already know, WordPress has four native structural elements. It has pages, posts, categories, and tags. Create a Membership Website – Pages A page is a piece of [...]

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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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Lesson 7 - Part 4 - Using Wordpress Tools to Organize the Site

Lesson 7 – Part 4 – Using WordPress Tools to Organize the Site

WordPress gives us a set of tools to organize your website and I’m going to describe those sets of tools in two ways. Simplified View of the Tools First is the Training Wheel View of these tools. Please understand that this is a simplified explanation of the concepts but for the purposes of this class [...]

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Lesson 12 - Part 4 - Add Blog Functionality to the Site

Lesson 12 – Part 4 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site

Site Structure Before Adding Blog Functionality The next thing we’re going to do then is to add blog functionality to the site. In order for us to do that, we need to come back and review our site architecture that we talked about in Lesson 7 of the series. So far right now, what we [...]

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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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Lesson 12 - Part 5 - Set the Display Style for Posts and Archive Pages

Lesson 12 – Part 5 – Set the Display Style for Posts and Archive Pages

The next we’re going to do is set the display style for Posts and Archive Pages. In terms of the typical display style at the moment, here is what our posts page looks like. This is what a single post looks like and an archive page. We’re going to copy this, that’ll be the easier [...]

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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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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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How to Create Custom Templates for Posts – Part 7 Create the “Minimalist” Post Template

This is Part 7 of the series, How to Create Custom Templates for Posts. We show the codes we need to have in order to remove the sidebars, nav menu, comments and footer leaving nothing but the post content. Video Transcript Pardon me, custom templates for posts. So I think we did, yeah 6 pieces [...]

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Lesson 12 – Add Blog Functionality to the Site

WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) – Watch the Video What is a content management system? Terminology WordPress is bad at precise terminology Web Page Content Type Taxonomy WordPress Content Types Page Post Attachment Custom WordPress Taxonomies Categories Post Tags Author Date Custom The Types of Web Pages WordPress generates Page page Post page [...]

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Post not Showing Author’s Name

A member raised concerns when he noticed that his posts don’t display the author’s name. We looked at the Thesis Design Options -> Display Options Settings and the WordPress User Profile Settings. It turned out that he had nothing set for “Display name publicly as” . Select the link below to watch a high definition [...]

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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 [...]

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