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How to Create a WordPress Site from a PSD File Using Thesis – Part 4 – Set Up Thesis Design Option

In this session we use Thesis Design Options to make basic changes to the site such as site layout, fonts and colors based on the PSD File design.

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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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Lesson 8 - Part 2 - Set up the Site Layout and Appearance using Thesis Design Options

Lesson 8 – Part 2 – Set up the Site Layout and Appearance Using Thesis Design Options

Elements that Make up the Appearance of your Site The next thing that we’re going to do is to set up the site layout and the appearance of our site using Thesis Design Options. This is the site that we’re working on in Lesson 8, sbywh8.byobtutorial.com. Our dashboard has all the pages that we created [...]

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How to Make a Full Width Header and Footer in Thesis

In this session a member asks how to make a full width header and a widgetized footer. We discuss how to achieve that using Site Layout options in Thesis Design Options and some CSS code. We also show where to find some of our video tutorials about these subjects. Soon our Footer Widgets Plugin will [...]

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Thesis Post Image and Thumbnails – Part 2 The Default Settings

This is Part 2 of the Thesis Post Image and Thumbnails series and in this session we discuss what the default settings are in Thesis Design Options for Post Image and Thumbnails and how to set it up. Video Transcript Now the next thing we’re going to look at in this is how to set [...]

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How to Configure WordPress and Thesis as a Blog – Part 3 Thesis Settings

This is part three of five in a series on how to configure WordPress and Thesis as a blog. In this session we go over Thesis Display Options and Comment Options and how to configure the comments the way you want them to look on your posts to pages. Video Transcript Okay so those are [...]

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One Hour Website Makeover DJ Sean Denard Part 3 – Configuring the Thesis Options

This is Part 3 of the One hour website makeover for DJ Sean Denard’s site and in this session we create a site from scratch similar to Sean’s and configure it so that it works properly. Video Transcript This is a site that we’re going to create entirely from scratch using my plugins. And I’m [...]

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How to Set the Color for the MultiMedia Box

In this session, a member wants to change the color of the multimedia box on her website. We show how to do that by simply going in to the Thesis Design Options and setting the color options under MultiMedia Box. Video Transcripts I’m trying to get rid of that. I’m not quite sure how that [...]

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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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Create a WordPress Site from a PSD File Using Thesis – Part 4 – Set Up Thesis Design Option

In this session we use Thesis Design Options to make basic changes to the site such as site layout, fonts and colors based on the PSD File design.

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How to Hide the Multimedia Box in Thesis

We demonstrate how to remove the Multimedia Box from pages in Thesis. We use Thesis Design Options to turn this option off. You can still use the Multimedia Box on other pages or posts if you wish. You simply edit the page or post and go to the Multimedia Box Options section where you can [...]

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How to Remove Comments from Pages in Thesis

We demonstrate how to remove the “Leave a Comment” block from pages in Thesis. We use Thesis Design Options to accomplish this task. Video Transcript And before I dive right into this, what I want to do is to demonstrate how to remove comments from pages. I have… you can see here you know, I’ve [...]

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Lesson 8 - Part 6 - Style the Menu using Design Options

Lesson 8 – Part 6 – Style the Menu Using Design Options

Now we need to style this WordPress menu we just created. In order to style the menu, we come back over to Thesis Design Options and back to that Fonts, Colors, and More! section right here under Nav Menu. Style 2 Elements of the WordPress Menu In Nav Menu we have some choices. The first [...]

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Lesson 8 – Set Up the Appearance of Your Site

Understanding the Parts of a Thesis Page – Watch the Video Header Content Sidebar Footer Set up the Site Layout Using Thesis Design Options – Watch the Video Site Layout Columns Column Order HTML Framework Outer Page Padding Display Options Comments Administration Fonts, Colors and More! Body (and Content Area) Content Area Multimedia Box Add [...]

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A Discussion of Page Width and Column Width

This member is concerned that her 2 column page layout doesn’t look right. We measure her page and discuss the various settings. Video Transcript So hit me with a question. Well, I think I already sent this to you without the sidebar. This is probably going to be hopefully a short answer for you but [...]

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Community Library Website Case Study – Part 26, Adjust the Teaser Styling Using Design Options

This is the twenty sixth in a series of live lessons on using WordPress and Thesis as a Content Management System (CMS). In this lesson we adjust the styling by enlarging the image size, getting rid of the extraneous date, changing the “Read the full article” to “Read more”, increasing the column size to make [...]

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