The original purpose of this site was to provide tutorials on Thesis in exchange for commissions earnt by referrals. Well, let’s call a spade A SPADE (as they say.)
I benefit by way of money to keep my Jaffa Cake habit alive (trust me, this doesn’t pay the bills,) and Thesis customers don’t pay any extra when they buy through me, and MAYBE gain an insight or two by way of joining my site.
It’s a “nothing to lose” arrangement if you will.
Thing is?
Tutorials for this kick-ass WordPress theme are ABUNDANT (much like the Jaffa Cakes in my cupboard after grocery shop day.)
They’re also FREE, unlike my Jaffa… but whatever :P
So … I have to applaud the community, and in particular, whoever put all those tutorials together over at the official DIYthemes site.
YOU ROCK!
So where does that leave me, this site, and my ability to fund my eating habits?
Well … unless I change direction … it doesn’t look good.
Thus the whole NEW DIRECTION I’m going in so I can more easily ADD VALUE to those customers who rock enough to buy through my site :-)
Bottom line is this: I don’t want to feed you more of the same sh*t that you can already find out there.
Check the new bonus deal for more details.
Be sure to keep tabs on my Thesis 2.0 updates page for more snippets as I get them ;-)
It looks like some level of drag & drop functionality will be making an appearance in the upcoming Thesis 2.0 according to a comment left by the developer over at his personal website (well worth a look, by the way.)
… you’ll be able to drag and drop the elements of your site with the next version of Thesis.
I can’t imagine the implementation of this to be anything like Headway theme, though, whose USP is entirely about the drag & drop / visual layout approach. No, I expect it’s much more subtle than that.
Daniel McClure of Mixed Media Marketing has released his first Thesis child theme simply called G+ … inspired by the styling and layout of the new social network Google+
For screenshots, and download go here.
Don’t own Thesis yet? Damn! You’ll need it to enjoy this free skin, and hundreds more like it … I highly recommend it. By the way … many people like to grab my Thesis bonus when buying their copy, and maybe you will too ;-)
It doesn’t happen often …
Chris tweeted on July 26th, this:
I explained one of Thesis 2′s new abilities to a coder the other night, and it visibly blew his mind. Seriously, I had to hire a maid.
When WordPress 3.2 arrived, the powerful Thesis Category SEO controls went missing. Well, Thesis 1.8.2 corrects this issue, and also introduces a new Dashboard widget that displays the latest Thesis news at a glance.
Meanwhile, the world awaits the arrival of Thesis 2.0 …
That is all :-)
I see a minor update is now available for Thesis customers … check the official blog post to learn more.
From reading the feedback above, I see several are reporting significant performance increases with this mini Thesis update … nice :-)
Thesis developer Chris Pearson said last month:
Oh, and I don’t have a date for the next release yet. The new version is a 100% rewrite of everything, and at this time, Thesis is still very much on the operating table. I expect to finish the bulk of the coding within the next month, and if the past is any indicator, we’ll probably have a month-long beta period before the official release.
I assume he was talking about Thesis 2.0, but then again … I’m sure there will be a 1.9 release … so who knows? Chris, obviously :-)
I’ve wanted to implement this for a while now, but for some reason never got the chance. However, I found a tutorial just now that promised copy and paste simplicity. I’m all for that!
I have to get some sleep now, but check back in a day or two for a proper update.
Update:
Hey, sorry for the delay. Okay, just to ensure we’re all clear on this date issue, here follows a selection of my thoughts:
- I generally like it when, after I search for something, I see a web page with a recent date on it;
- I have found that I will often pick a recently dated web page over an older page from the SERP’s, even though I know the older one could actually be better;
- If I see a web page dated 2007, and another without a date, I will typically lean towards the non-dated page, all other factors being equal;
- Often, my “old” web pages are just as relevant today as when they were first published;
- I believe it is a shame to miss out on traffic over what is perhaps a silly phenomenon; that the date shown is old!
With the above in mind, imagine if:
- All new posts were published with their date attached, showing the world how current it is;
- while all posts older than X days, weeks or months had their dates removed?
I think the above scenario is quite desirable. While some people may prefer to artificially display a recent date on all posts, I just wouldn’t feel very good about that. That would be deliberately misleading, whereas removing the date is more strategic than misleading. Well, it is in my opinion.
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I recently added Adsense to a couple of websites running Thesis. Having never used Adsense before, I got busy eating up the learning curve.
It’s no secret that when running WordPress as your platform, whatever you’re trying to do can often be done by a plugin. However, I am one of those weird people who will avoid using plugins where possible. So while there are plugins that allow you to insert Adsense into your theme easily, I wanted to do it manually.
With Adsense, you get to choose from an array of different media types. Well, from memory you can have link ads, text, images and even video ads. What’s important here is that you note the different sizes available in each. For example, one of the ads I used was 468 pixels tall by 60 pixels wide. Obviously you need to ensure you have the space available in your layout before you go any further. Or create the space…
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