Thesis Hacker

May

2009

Make any page your home page

You can make any existing page you have, or make a new page your homepage…

If you want to create a brand new page and have it be your homepage, create a page and publish it. Then go to Dashboard—>Settings—>Reading…

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From here…

If you pick your latest posts to display, you’ll have to change the features and teasers to what you want it to be

If you pick a static page, you have the choice to chose any page that you have created already

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Leaving a comment with code in it...

If you would like to leave a comment and you have examples of code you want to show, you must "escape the code". This allows the entire code to show correctly by inserting certain variable around certain tags to make them show. If you don't "escape the code" your code will show up broken, mangled, and it won't be able to be seen correctly. "Escaping the code" is very simple...

Copy your code you want to show
Click here to go to the site to escape the code
Follow the directions, it's so easy
Once you have the escaped code copied, paste it in the comments area where you want
Now you can enjoy life

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Add a date stamp with an icon on your post

May 20, 2009

Check out the little icon with the date of the post in the top right corner. Here’s how I made it…
The first thing to do is gather the php code that will generate the time of the post…
the_time(’M’) gets the month of the date
the_time(’j’) gets the day of the date
the_time(’Y’) gets the [...]

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Remove comments are closed statement

May 19, 2009

If you want to get rid of this…

Put this in your custom.css…
.custom .comments_closed p {display: none ;}
If you want to remove that statement on only certain individual pages, check out how to style any page or post differently than all the rest HERE

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The easiest way to add a “clickable” header image

May 18, 2009

I wrote an earlier tutorial about showing the easiest way to add a header image HERE. I had a lot of feedback saying that it wasn’t clickable. That’s absolutely correct because it isn’t. That tutorial shows how to add a header image and that’s it. It never said anything about being clickable.
The following tutorial, in [...]

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Change the color of the tagline in the header

May 15, 2009

I’ve gotten a lot of requests for changing the color of the tagline and moving the tagline. To change the color, keep reading. To change the position, go HERE.

In your custom.css add this…
.custom #header #tagline {color: #000000;}
Change the hexadecimal number to whatever gives you the desired effect

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Move the tagline to a different spot in the header

May 15, 2009

There are a couple of different ways you can move the tagline inside your header.

One way is to just play around with the different margins on all sides. In your custom.css add this…
.custom #header #tagline {
margin-left: Xem;
margin-right: Xem;
margin-top: Xem;
margin-bottom: Xem;
}
Replace X with a number that gives you the desired effect
The only drawback with this is [...]

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Add a drop cap to your post or page

May 12, 2009

The letter “T” that begins this sentence is an example of a drop cap. This was made by just assigning the very first letter of the sentence a unique class name and styling it in my custom.css file. You can make a class for the drop cap and use it over and over again on [...]

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Highlight any part of your post or page

May 11, 2009

You can highlight anything from individual words, to sentences, to entire paragraphs. First thing you’re going to do is figure out a class name. This name will be used over and over again to put the highlight anywhere in any post or page
I named mine “my-highlight”
Add the name to your custom.css and chose a color [...]

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Place a row of ads on your page

May 7, 2009

This is cool and simple way of placing as many ads as you want on your site…
First thing is to upload your ads into the custom/images folder on your server
The ads in this example are 125 x 125 which is pretty typical
Next, create a simple function in your custom_functions.php to add the ads, put div [...]

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