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Create a dynamic page listing widget

Hi Everyone! It’s been a while since my last tutorial, so here’s a quick bit of code I want to share, since I’ve found myself using it a lot. For sites that have a large number of pages setup hierarchically, adding them all to the drop-down menu doesn’t make sense. Same with just adding the [...]

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Improve Your Blog in 5 Minutes with ClickHeat

Note – This is the first article in a series about using data-driven methodologies to improve your site. Want to learn more about how data collection and testing can improve your bottom line? Contact me! I need better statistics. Now. As any serious Thesis blogger knows – good statistics matter. A lot. The problem is, [...]

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Poll: Which Host are You Running Thesis on?

I was working on a project for a client the other day and the host they were using was fighting me at every turn, and causing all kinds of Thesis and skin problems. In order to make the ThesisReady skins as good as they can possibly be, for as many users as possible, I wanted [...]

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New Thesis Skin in Progress. Thoughts?

I’m working on a new Thesis skin this week, and I’d love some feedback. Thoughts so far? What features would you like to see included? Thanks!

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Targeting Users Based on Referrer to Increase Adsense Clicks

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 [...]

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Smarter Thesis Hooks

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, [...]

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Add Internet Explorer Stylesheets to Thesis

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 [...]

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Min

The Min skin is the ultimate in minimalist website design. This skin is a great tool for keeping your content as the primary focus… because there is little else to focus on!

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Add a Favicon to Your Thesis Blog

Today’s post is a quick one – add a custom favicon to your Thesis blog. A favicon is the little image you see in the url bar on some sites and also appears next to your site name when people bookmark your site. A good favicon can reenforce your brand and make it easy for [...]

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Keeping Your Thesis Install Upgrade Proof

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 [...]

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