Thesis Theme Directory Project: Introduce Yourself

Have you introduced yourself and your site in the Thesis Forum?

This is one of the first things you should do when joining the Thesis Community but so many users have not done it yet.

Visit the following link in the Thesis Forum and leave some brief details about your site.

Introduce yourself and your Thesis-Themed site(s)!

Just click on the Reply to Thread button and tap away.

Why Introductions are so important

There are nearly 30,000 Thesis Theme users, yet only about 600 have introduced themselves in the Forum at the time of this post.

If bloggers average three blogs each (and some average more), then there could possibly be 100,000+ sites out there powered by Thesis.

If you are interested in what other Thesis users are doing, how they’re designing and configuring their sites, then a Directory of Thesis Theme Sites would be wonderful to be able to access – quickly and easily.

The Need for a Directory – with pictures!

Currently you have to trawl through over 100 pages of forum posts with no visual cues as to what the site may look like, whether they still use Thesis, or even if they still exist since last posting their ‘hello‘ message.

Grand Plan: Thesis Theme Directory and Gallery of 1,000 Thesis Sites

  • We’ve just put together Part 1 of 1,000 Thesis Sites - the video. It contains the first 100 Thesis sites. We selected them mostly from Thesis users who have been around for longer than 12 months.
  • If you visit the Thesis Sites Gallery page you will also have access to the links to visit these sites, quickly and easily.
  • The video is on YouTube, so feel free to embed it on your site to show off the amazing and unique sites people create with the power of Thesis.

Most of us were newbies to start with and most of us create (and revamp) our sites base on trial and error and with the help of tutorials provided by the Thesis Community.

Next Steps

We have trawled through the Introduction threads and selected hundreds of Thesis sites; enough for many more parts. However, many Thesis users I know of have yet to include information and links to their sites in the Introduce yourself and your Thesis-Themed site(s)! thread.

In order to find worthy sites for inclusion into the 10 part video series (more if needed), we need to be able to find you, as do others.

1. Head on over to the thread and add your site.

This is where we will be going to find more sites to add to the Thesis Theme Sites Directory.

2. Check out the video1,000 Thesis Sites (Part 1).

Feel free to leave your comments about the video on this post.

Let us know if you liked the music we chose.


{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

Bowral Hotels August 4, 2010

Will do, time for me to hop on the forum and say Hi to everyone :)

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Sydney Home Cleaning August 4, 2010

I’m hooked on blogs, and this is a lovely site. I’ll say hello in the forums methinks

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Corporate training August 4, 2010

i never used this before.. but this is good. i’ll try it!

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James Lee, Photographer August 5, 2010

Whoa… danger, Will Robinson!

KingdomGeek’s blog is the one that shows up on your YouTube splash screen (at 2:40 in the video), and is running on the included WP theme “Twenty Ten.” Rick’s been pretty vocal about his split from Thesis.

Not sure that this would mean you need to re-record the slide show, but perhaps at least pick a different image for the splash screen, eh?

(and I’ve been using Thesis for over a year, but haven’t posted on that thread. Ahh, well, I procrastinate)

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Somone Bull August 5, 2010

I’m in the process of swapping out the video. I thought Rick had made the pre-thesis 1.8 for WP 3.0 hacks and hadn’t stayed up to date with his change. My oversight. Amazing that this was one of the only sites that I didn’t double check (assumptions made an ass out of me) AND youtube chose this image to use as a splash! Must have been fate to identify it. Thanks, will be back soon with a revised version.

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accredited online phd universities August 5, 2010

That’s very nice. The themes presented are very awesome. Must have a look into it.

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Rick LaPoint August 14, 2010

I have been using Thesis for one week now as of this morning. I have only been using WordPress for 3 months, and before that my only experience was MS FrontPage.

I have experimented with several Themes, including Headway. But every Theme ends up requiring some coding, and so I’m getting a little CSS “education by search engine.”

I decided that if every Theme needs some custom coding anyway, why not just go with the Theme that was made that way in the first place? I must say tho that the OpenHook plugin made it all fairly easy :-) Headway has something similar but the Visual Editor gave me problems, and drove me into the arms of Thesis.

I just joined the Thesis Forum, and look forward to l learning a lot more!

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Somone Bull August 15, 2010

I like the simple modifications you have made. Your header is really cool and the round corners make a huge difference – very polished.

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Hieu Martin@Blog Tips August 15, 2010

Maybe i will try it now. My site use thesis theme. I’m happy with it

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Hung@JVPrime.Com August 15, 2010

Many people forgot about this, include me
Thanks for reminder us.

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Zazan August 15, 2010

I never used this, Can someone give me examples of blogs that use this?

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Hung@JVPrime.Com August 15, 2010

My blog using thesis plus bloggusion (until now)

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Zazan August 15, 2010

Wow .. very cool, bro.. looks like I should try it later..

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Tinh August 15, 2010

Great directory and I wish I could join thesis theme designers team sooner. Anyway I am still learning thesis hooks first :-)

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Mike Arnoel August 15, 2010

I’ve never used, but this is good. I’ll try it!

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Mr. Gi?i Pháp S? August 17, 2010

Really nice directory!
I will join it!

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ipad point of sales August 18, 2010

I have never used this before, but it looks good. Thanks for sharing.

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horsegames September 1, 2010

well the interface looks really cool I guess I will have to try this out.

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