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February 25, 2010

Thesis: Replacing List Bullets with Images Using CSS

Replacing standard HTML list bullets with images can be a great way to tie them into your overall theme and make your site more visually appealing.

Note: This article applies to any website using CSS. You don't need to be using either WordPress or Thesis.

This is what a standard bulleted list looks like in a Thesis site, which has applied its own styles to the default HTML ones.

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Thesis: Format Previous Entries Pages Like Your Home Page

When you set up a WordPress blog, you can use the WP Settings > Reading panel to limit how many posts appear on a "blog" page, i.e. any page that displays a list of posts. When you have more than that many posts, you get Previous Entries and Next Entries links at the bottom of the page that let you navigate through them all. This is referred to as pagination.

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Thesis QuickTip: Adding Thumbnails to Your Teasers

I love the teaser feature of Thesis, where you have two columns of shorter blurbs linking to older blog posts. You can get a lot more links on your home page without making visitors have to scroll forever. However, by default, the teasers only display text, which is a little bland. And it's a real waste for sites that have a lot of attractive imagery in their posts, like photography, travel, and food blogs. Fortunately, it's very easy to add images to your teasers and Thesis offers several options for sizing and positioning them without requiring any coding at all.

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Thesis: Applying Functions Only to Specific Pages

In an earlier post, I showed you how to write a simple function that places a text box above the headline of your pages. But you don't always want certain content or functionality to apply to every single page on your site. In this post, I'm going to introduce you to conditional statements, which let you specify which pages your function will apply to.

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Thesis: Where Do You Put the Code?

In an earlier post I described how to write a simple custom function that would add a small piece of content into a specific location on your web page. One point of confusion that occasionally comes up is where you actually put this code.

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What is the Thesis Theme and Why Would You Want It?

Today I'm taking a step back from posting tips on how to use Thesis and instead will explain a bit about what the theme is and why you might be interested in using it.

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Thesis: The Basic Anatomy of a Custom Function

In my previous post, What Are Hooks and How Do You Use Them?, I explained that hooks are simply placeholders within the Thesis code where you can insert your own code to add extra content or functionality to your theme. These pieces of code are called functions and, in this post, I'm going to explain the basics of writing one.

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Thesis: What are Hooks and How Do You Use Them?

When you first start working with Thesis, you're going to see a lot of references to hooks. But unless you're already used to customizing code in WordPress, it can be a confusing concept to wrap your head around (at least it was for me!).

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