No, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Thesis 1.7 came out of beta and was released to the public yesterday. I updated a couple of my sites, decided it was quite stable, and then updated the rest of my blogs. In the process I decided that there were a few things I really liked about this new release. In no particular order, here are 5 cool things that I love about Thesis 1.7.
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My earlier How To Use Photo Dropper With Thesis post covered this subject a while back. Specifically, I wrote about how to customize the output of Photo Dropper and combine it with some custom CSS to nicely integrate it into the Thesis Theme. That was a popular post and for the most part the technique still works today. But it needed some updating, and I got inspired when Simon Townley asked me the following question:
Hi Pat: If I understand correctly, this places the image within the post itself. I like to use the in-built Thesis image options (Post Image) because this makes delivering thumbnails with teasers nice and easy.
Is there any way to integrate PhotoDropper so it puts the image into the Thesis Post Image container?
After a bit of experimentation, I came up with the following solution, which I have used throughout this blog.
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Technorati loves it when I give them a claim code, like this one: GDP52QVEZ27Q. Which gave me a reason to create a new post, and a way to test out how to use Photo Dropper with the Thesis Post Image feature. And the reason I was looking into the Post Image issue was due to a great question from Simon Townley. Thanks for the inspiration, Simon. Look to my next post for the detailed answer to your question.