Since Thesis version 1.2, we in the Thesis Community have found out about ‘hooks‘. Tricky little things at first but once mastered you can design like a pro.
- Add the Thesis OpenHook Plugin a few trusty diagrams to help you remember where the hooks go/live and you can copy and paste words, images and other smart things all over your pages like a Pro.
1. Grab the Thesis OpenHook Plugin
Thesis OpenHook is a plugin that will allow you to fully customize your Thesis installation without touching your custom/custom_functions.php file unless you just really want to!
OpenHook adds a new panel to your administration panel’s Design area — in addition to Thesis Options & Design Options, OpenHook creates a new Thesis OpenHook panel.
Grab it via your Dashboard (automatic plugin installer) or grab it direct from the source, KingdomGeek.
Here is a screenshot below showing a portion of the very long options panel (something for virtually every part of your Thesis Theme).
2. Grab trusty ‘hook’ diagrams
Then a trusty diagram that shows you were the hooks go/live on the home page, pages and posts. Thebest diagrams in existance (to my knowledge as at 8 April 2009 :-) ) are at Robert Gerola’s site
3. Additional Thesis Hook Tutorials & Videos
- A video by Thesis Hooks.com
- Thesis Tutorial – Hooks for Dummies by Sugarrae.com
- Thesis Hook Reference List at DIYthemes.com
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Excellent post. The hooks are one of the best features of the thesis theme. Once you master the hooks, which is not hard. You will be well on your way to having a nice Thesis Theme site.
Not hard but very annoying when you all you want to do is change the markup on the search results page and you can’t find any reference to it anywhere.
I have gone through a couple of posts in this blog. According to me, this site is a benchmark in the list of thesis related sites.
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