Black Friday has become somewhat of an institution in the US. The day after Thanksgiving, everyone seems to discount prices for one day only, even those who usually wouldn’t. And that includes DIYthemes:
“We’re offering 20% off for 150 people who use a special code starting right now until Friday night at 11:59 pm Eastern time. We don’t want to interfere with people’s real-space shopping, so the discount code is effective right now - for the first 150 people only!”
That works out to:
$69.60 for Thesis Personal
$131.20 for Thesis Developer
$61.60 for Developer Upgrade
IMPORTANT! - You must use this code to get the discount - 20D03977D0 (don’t forget this!).
ALSO IMPORTANT - There’s only 150 spots available for this coupon code - 20D03977D0 (just cut and paste the code into your order).
If you’ve been thinking about buying Thesis but have been putting it off, now is the time to get it.
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In a previous post (What Are My Thesis Theme Options?) I showed the options screens you can use to customize the Thesis Theme for your blog. In this post, which is the first of a series, I’m going to dive into more of the details for each of these options. And I’m going to reveal the new ones that were added in the Thesis 1.2 release.
As we saw before, there are two options screens available in the Admin interface of WordPress that can be used to customize the Thesis Theme: Thesis Options and Design Options. Rather than show you the entire page for these screens, I’m going to show you individual elements and explain how they are important to your blog.
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On Friday, Chris Pearson announced that the Thesis 1.2 upgrade was available. Rick Beckman posted some details on his blog, which looked interesting. I finally got some free time this weekend to backup and upgrade my various sites, and I’m very pleased with the results.
There were a couple of default settings that I turned off right away as they weren’t appropriate for my particular sites, but other than that the upgrade process was very smooth. This site is now running Thesis 1.2 as well. For the most part it still looks the same. But I now have a lot more configuration options at my disposal, as well as a bunch of new hooks (I’ll explain hooks in the next post).
This is a very interesting upgrade to Thesis. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I really like the direction Chris is taking this theme. I think he is building a very solid foundation for lots of future customizations. I think we are going to start to see some very clever sites built with Thesis, based on all the new capabilities. At the same time, anyone who just wants a good looking site without a lot of hassle will be very pleased with Thesis out-of-the-box.
I’ve got one more final site to upgrade, then I’ll come back here and post a detailed review of what is included in this new release. In the mean time, what are you waiting for? Go get a great looking theme for your WordPress blog..
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This is going to be a short post. But not as short as a tweet. Don’t know what a tweet is? You should. A tweet is to Twitter as a post is to WordPress. Only is tweet is no more than 140 characters. And while a tweet is very short, don’t let that fool you - there’s more to tweeting than meets the eye.
Participating in the “twitterverse” is a unique experience that is hard to describe. And saying that a tweet is just a short blog post is barely scratching the surface. Twitter is a lot like jazz: much easier understood by experiencing it, rather than simply talking about it. So while the rest of this post will talk about integrating Twitter with WordPress, our first piece of advice is to experience Twitter for yourself: create an account, follow folks with a common interest, and create your own tweets. Then come back here and read the rest of this post.
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Photographs can help turn an ordinary blog posting into something memorable. And the easiest way to add a photo to one of your posts is to use a WordPress plugin called Photo Dropper.
The Photo Dropper plugin makes it easy to find and embed any image from Flickr that is available under a Creative Commons (CC) license. Even better, it creates a link that gives credit to the photo owner, meeting the attribution requirement of the CC license. And it even lets you search for a photo, select the size that you want, and embed the appropriate HTML code, all from the comfort of the WordPress post editor.
Photo Dropper provides terrific functionality, but the results you get out-of-the-box don’t exactly blend in well with the Thesis Theme. So the rest of this post will show you how to make the Flickr photos you get through Photo Dropper look like a natural extension of Thesis.
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The latest update to the Thesis Theme introduced additional features and options. What options were added to the new version? The best way to answer that question is to simply show you.
One of the goals of the Thesis Theme is to give you, the blogger, the ability to customize the look and behavior of your blog without having to change any of the PHP code, or CSS styles. You can still do that if you need to, but common cases should be handled by configuration screens visible within the Admin interface of WordPress.
Version 1.1 of the Thesis Theme has expanded on this original concept by now giving you two screens full of options: “Thesis Options” and “Design Options.” Below are screen shots of each of these, showing all the options at your fingertips.
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I just got done updating all my WordPress sites to the latest version of the Thesis Theme. Version 1.1 includes even more easily selected options, such as the choice of font, number of columns, etc. I’ll write a longer post with more details about this upgrade, but for now I must say I’m impressed and feel like I’m getting my money’s worth.
I will say that I wasn’t completely happy with the upgrade process due to a slight glitch where your site would appear in a single narrow column until you visited the two configuration pages. I get the impression that this isn’t unique to this particular theme, and that WordPress doesn’t provide a seamless mechanism for upgrades. As a blogger I expect better, but as a software engineer I also understand why some things are the way they are. Fortunately, it was easy enough to work around that little wrinkle. We’ll have to see what other upgraders have to say about the process.
To end on a positive note, I like the direction that Chris Pearson is taking with this theme, and with this upgrade in particular. If he keeps improving the theme at a reasonable pace the result is going to be fantastic. And if he stopped right now, I’d probably still be happy. (But I hope he doesn’t stop!)
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Here is a list of update services that appear to be active. Feel free to cut and paste these into your WordPress settings. And if I missed any good ones, be sure to let me know.
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Welcome to my blog. I created it to save you time finding a great theme for your blog. I looked at a lot of blog software and choose WordPress, in large part because of it’s popularity. While I am a software engineer, I wanted blog software that would be simple to set up and simple to use. WordPress met that requirement.
I had the same desire for my WordPress theme. After trying several I came across the Thesis Theme by Chris Pearson and was intrigued. I bought it, tried it out, and liked it so much I decided to create a website to show it off. I hope you find this useful and I hope I can save you the time and hassle of making a lot of mistakes. I think you will like the Thesis Theme, and I think this site will give you a better idea of what it can do for you, at least from my point of view.
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