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In all these tutorials when I explain that you insert code into your custom.css or custom_functions.php files to make changes, you still have to save the changes and upload the file to the appropriate location on your server. Before you can even do this, guess what??? First you have to have wordpress installed on your server, then you have to get Thesis and install it on your server! Yep, just wanted to make sure we’re all on the same page.

Let’s just run down a few simple steps to get Wordpress and Thesis installed on your computer and on your server so you can start hacking away at it.

First, get Wordpress and install it on your server…

Next, get Thesis and install it on your server…

Next, unzip the file and place it in a directory on your computer of your choice. I unzip mine right to my desktop so it’s really easy to find.

You should now have a thesis folder visible on your desktop. The folder is already labeled “Thesis”. When you open up the file you should have the following sub folders and files inside:

Next you’re going to upload this entire file “Thesis” to your server. You’re going to need an ftp program to do this. If your hosting company doesn’t have one (which most do) there are plenty of free ones out there. Just search “free ftp program” in your favorite search engine to find one.

Once you get your Thesis copy uploaded to your server, find your custom.css, and custom_functions.php files. They are going to be located here within your wordpress installation….

These are the two locations where you’re going to upload all your custom.css and custom_functions.php file customizations from your computer to your server.

To see an easy way to extract your custom.css and custom_functions.php files from your Thesis folder on your computer, check out this tutorial

Once you extract these two files you can now start hacking and tweaking to your hearts content.

To see how to make changes to your custom.css file, check out this tutorial

Remember, In all these tutorials when I explain that you insert code into your custom.css or custom_functions.php files to make changes, you still have to save the changes and upload the file to the appropriate location on your server.