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How to Style Thesis Teasers to be in a Single Row – Full Width

In this session we show how to style Thesis teasers so that they display in a single row taking up the full width of the content area. We customize the display using both settings in Thesis Design Options and custom CSS to make the teasers full width. Video Transcript Right. I’m with you, okay. What [...]

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Features and Teasers – Thesis Home Page Display Options

In this basic lesson I discuss the differences between featured posts and teasers in Thesis.  I demonstrate how to set the number of featured posts and teasers to display using a combination of the Home Page Display Options and the WordPress Reading Settings.  I also demonstrate how to display all featured posts or all teasers. [...]

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Lesson 12 – Strategies for Displaying Teaser Content

Display Teaser Content to Members – Watch the Video The problem – Restricted Content Message The solution – Display teaser content with call to action Problem 2 – Upgrading an account requires the member to be logged in The solution – Display teaser content with call to action to members Preparing the Page to Display [...]

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The WordPress More Tag

A member asked me to discuss the various versions of the “more” tag in both WordPress and Thesis.   There is a WordPress default behavior and a default Thesis behavior.  Here are what we discussed in this video: Adding the WordPress default more tag to posts Customizing the WordPress default more tag for an individual post [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 24, Add Taxonomy and Post Meta Data to the Teaser

This is the twenty fourth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we add the custom post meta of subtitle and author’s name to the teaser. We previously added this information to the post. We accomplish this with Thesis hooks in custom_functions.php. [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 25, Add Taxonomy Data to the Teaser

This is the twenty fifth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we continue to add data, location taxonomy and topics in this case, to the bottom of the Teaser. We align these on the bottom left with their respective names followed [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 27, Styling the Teaser Using CSS

This is the twenty seventh 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 the teaser subtitle, author name, topics and location. We accomplish this with CSS in Firebug and Web Developer. Video Transcript So now we need to [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 28 – Fine Tune the Teaser Display

This is the twenty eighth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we adjust the look of topics in the teaser so that the list is on the same line as the title. We accomplish this by reconfiguring the HTML structure that [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 45, Add Thesis HTML Structure to Teasers

This is the 45th in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we modify our custom catalog page so that the teaser display inherits the Thesis HTML Structure. Video Transcript Oh that takes us to step 4 then which now we want to [...]

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