by Adam Barber on March 29, 2010
I spent a few days working on a client site this past week, and after spending a few days working through ways to increase conversions, I figured I would share one of the more interesting techniques I employed – displaying targeted content to visitors based on which site they visited from. There are a number [...]
by Adam Barber on March 26, 2010
Here’s a quick tip to keep your custom_functions.php file organized, by using smarter hooks. The Old Way When most people add new functions to Thesis they create a new function, and use add_action(‘thesis_hook_here’,'your_function_here’); This means works pretty well for a small number of hooks (say 10 or less, I find), but when developing custom skins, [...]
by Adam Barber on March 24, 2010
The bane of the Internet continues to be Internet Explorer. About a billion and one articles have been written about dealing with the problems that it creates and specific CSS level corrections to accommodate the weirdness, so I won’t discuss any of those. Instead, here’s a quick tip for adding a new IE only stylesheet [...]
by Adam Barber on March 19, 2010
When building for Thesis (or any WordPress theme, really) there is a lot to take into consideration in terms of “upgrade-a-bility.” Thesis handles this pretty well for the most part, by relegating any user changes to the /custom folder. From there, it’s just a matter of protecting you against yourself. I’m here to help. Images [...]
by Adam Barber on March 2, 2010
In the last tutorial (Turn Your Thesis Feature Box into a jQuery Alert – Part 1) I walked you through the basic setup of putting static text into the Thesis feature box, and using jQuery to make it modal. Now we’ll discuss putting a custom loop inside the box to allow you to manage its [...]