1. Create an Element and Place It on the Screen @ Thesis Theme Tools
A simply written tutorial showing you how to add elements – anything that goes on a website page, e.g. subscribe box, advertisement, image.
2. How to Add Multiple Background Images in Body Section of Thesis Theme @4 Blogger
In a single div you can add only one background image. However, by using nested div and hook functions you can add multiple different background images in single section.
3. The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Thesis Full-Width Framework @ Art of Blog
Fantastic reasons why every Thesis user should use the full-width framework if they intend to customize the look of their site.
4. Add a Header Widget to Thesis @ ThesisTheme.Net
A great video that shows you how to add a header widget. All of the code is provided in the post.
5. How To Make A Custom Page Template Using Thesis @ Thesis Tutor
A great video that explains using custom page templates. Learn a little about HTML and php while you watch the video – just the essentials.
6. Multiple Custom Page Templates @ Berchman
Read this after tutorial 5 above if you are new to custom pages.
7. Creating a newsletter that’s separate from your blog @ Thesis Forum
You’ll need to login to the Thesis Forum for this one – but it’s well worth it. Tutorial is courtesy of PressMy.biz
8. Add Beautiful Fonts to Your Site @ Thesis 101
The @font-face rule allows for linking to fonts that are automatically activated when needed. This permits authors to work around the limitation of “web-safe” fonts, allowing for consistent rendering independent of the fonts available in a given user’s environment.
9. Choosing a Color Palette and Scheme for Your Thesis Design @ Double Mule
Helpful advice on one of the more difficult parts of web design – choosing your colours.
10. Similar Posts with Thumbnails @ Thesis Forum
You’ll need to login to the Thesis Forum for this one. How to use the built-n Thesis thumbnails to provide images for related posts. Tutorial courtesy of Modern Comfort Food.com
11. Customizing the 404 Page @ Sugarrae
Includes a link to The 100 most funny and unusual 404 error pages.
12. Create a Very Informative Archives Page @ Blogussion
Includes a download file with all the code.
13. Custom “After the Post” Box @ Berchman
Another one from a Thesis master. All the code, including how to add a right-aligned image.
14. 3 Easy and Highly Requested Thesis Theme Tutorials @ MattFlies
Includes how to change the background colour of comments by the author.
15. Thesis Theme Custom CSS Code Robot @ Double Mule
Another one from Double Mule. Try this for page-framework layout for Thesis 1.6. Make your choices and auto generate your code.
16. 6 ways I customized my WordPress blog theme and how @ How to Make my Blog
Includes many people’s all-time favourite…Prominent popular posts in the sidebar
17. How to use Firebug for CSS @ Kristarella
A great video that explains what Firebug is (one of the greatest Firefox add-ons) and how to use it.
18. Thesis Theme User’s Guide @ DIY Themes
I mention this because many long-time users of Thesis may not have revisited the user’s guide since first looking at it. DIYThemes has done a fantastic job of redesigning the user guide since it’s earlier days.
- First stop should be the table of contents.
Then check out updates on hooks, filters and the basics that you may not be using taking full advantage of, including:
19. How to Create Small Business Websites Using the Thesis WordPress Theme @ Expand2Web
This is a free eBook with lots of tutorials and “how to” tips.
20. 10 Useful Answers to Common Thesis Questions @ Art of Blog
A bit of everything…
- How Can I Display Different Background Images in Different Regions?
- I Just Learned How to Use Hooks, So I’m Creating My Own Super-Cool Header from Scratch – How Do I Get Rid of the Ugly Default Header?
- Can I Have a Second Navbar? (or a Third?)
- How Can I Display an Image from the Post Next to the Headline?
- How Do I Insert an Image Before the Post Content? Only on Certain Posts or Pages?
- How Can I Get Rid of All the Border Lines between sections?
- Can I Use Different CSS Styles for Different Pages on My Site?
- How Can I Transfer My Thesis Settings from One Blog to Another or Preserve Them when Moving My Site to a Different Domain?
- How Can I Add More Information to the Byline?
- Do Teasers Always Have to Display in Two Columns?
Add Other Worthy Thesis Tutorials
If you have other tutorials you would like to recommend, feel free to leave a brief description and the link to it in your comment.
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This is really a great collection of thesis theme tutorials! My personal favorite is #10. If you do this your related posts area will totally stand out!
Wow! What a great resource. I’ve been having a difficulty with my thesis theme and these tutorials are what I needed.
Love number 16 in particular.
Actually, loving the new default theme on Wordpress 3.0 (well old theme but recently the default). Lots of simple customisation options on that as well now.
Yes… I confess, I’m a Wordpress Fan Girl! lol
themes are evident which reflect and define our society.
Hi. Just want to say about 17, that I just loveee FireBug, It is such a good plugin. Without it, it is a nightmare if I am trying to code some css, and even helps with html too.
Wow… im love this tecnic the multiple background images… Thanks…
This is really a great collection of thesis theme tutorials! I also prefer multiple background images!
This is jsut what I was looking for! Thank you!
great themes….great blog.
A great collection of Thesis tutorials. Thanks for sharing it
Nice tutorial dude. I will try to use it for my wordpress website. Thanks for sharing it here.
This is such a great list of thesis theme tutorials and I do appreciate your efforts for this.I want to add beautiful fonts to my site and now I can do it with the help of that tutorial.Other tutorials will also be useful for me.
Lot and lot Thesis theme bloggers nowadays. Will going to try it too. :)
This tutorial made me think of nothing else but to follow all these techniques to have a user-friendly, good-looking/presentable, neat & clean and creative themes for my present and future blogs.
Looking forward for more of your interesting and helpful tutorials or articles here. Keep up the good work!
I like to set up blog, and I am much concern with its content, and especially the themes. This theme tutorials are really helpful in setting my blog. As for now I am planning to launch another blog that talked about politics and society.
I have been thinking about starting my own blog but have been rather apprehensive because of my lack of knowledge. I have been following your guide step by step – only up to 4 so far – and feel relatively confident at the end I will be able to launch a proper forum.
Thank you for taking the time to post such an informative and helpful post.
Awesome list, especially #16 and #17. I’m not very good with blogs (the design rather than the content) and these are really easy, simple to use. Thanks!
Some good advice here. I especially like the related posts one, which I didn’t know that you could do. Going to try that on some of my sites to spurce them up a bit.
Wow, awesome list. I am in the process of customizing the thesis theme :) This will definitely help. Obviously I wouldn’t want to shell out 100 or 200 bucks on custom making it as long as I can do it on my own.
In fact, I need to now come up with a list of things to modify such as 404 page, header/banner, footer content, font/color scheme etc.
I will put a post together on things Thesis users may consider customizing.
Can’t wait to read it!
Hi Somone,
Thanks much in advance. Such a simple look up post is what I (and every one else) miss when it comes to adopting thesis..
Cheers,
Ajith
Wow your amazing. Collecting all this is such a very nice collection. Hope you’ll be more inspired and continue collecting.
Brilliant post. Aside from the fact that the steps you’ve outlined are very much the essential ones for a proper blog I LOVE that i don’t have to go looking up the source of all of them. Thank you so much for putting all the links right in every number with the summary of what each is about. Thank you!!
I use thesis for one of my blog but i don’t know why, i can’t add any page except home page, can you tell me why.
this site is the best for the themes. all features and graphics is very nice
of this site themes.
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I am so pleased with your long but awesome article. Thanks for sharing the tips on how to create a successful and amazing website. Ever since I found it hard to mix and match the color scheme to apply on my blog but after reading your article I realized that it is important to limit the colors and have a website that cleverly uses gradients that attracts potential customers even if it is simple.
This is such a comprehensive list of tutorials, it must have taken a good amount of time to compile. Having such a thorough list as a reference has given me the confidence to attempt to start my own blog. Looking forward to your next compilation.
Very useful links… Need time to actually go through these – surely helpful – thnx a lot…
nice links thanks for sharing us
Nice link. Really useful for me. I’ve bookmark all sites that you share. Very helpful. Bull, Thanks for sharing with us :)
My favorite thesis tutorial site is fourbloggers.com
Hi. Just want to say about 17, that I just loveee FireBug, It is such a good plugin. Without it, it is a nightmare if I am trying to code some css, and even helps with html too.
Very handy list- great idea! I tend to bookmark too many then cant find them when I need them. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing .
It will helpful for me .I will bookmark it.
I was in need of this article.. thanks for sharing,
Thank you for the collection. I am also using Thesis and need many tips to custom it to following my like.
Thesis forum is the biggest one with great support from members. Thanks for listing out others here :-)
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Thanks for sharing. Thats actually what I need.
Thanks Somone good job: very comprehensive for people trying to get their head around Thesis, which as we know, does have a learning curve – but it’s certainly worth learning ;)
If only I had of stumbled across this when I first started! Keep up the good work ;)
A great collection of Thesis tutorials. Thanks for sharing
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Great collection! It is difficult to find so much resources and very useful,thanks for your sharing.