Better WordPress Custom Coding – custom functions/css file

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The single biggest issue associated with upgrading WordPress and/or your theme is that it can potentially break or delete custom code you’ve written into your functions.php file and css files. In fact, the single biggest advantage of the Thesis theme is that virtually no coding is ever necessary inside the WordPress core. Although I use [...]

Exclude posts from WordPress blog or RSS feed based on a tag

A short time ago I provided some code that would remove a category from a WordPress RSS feed, but what about if you want to exclude posts with a certain tag from either showing up in your blog or showing up from within your RSS feed? This snippet of code will prevent a post from [...]

Adding New Widget Areas in Thesis

Just when you though that you had enough of Thesis stuff… here’s some more. I get about 10 emails a day relating to help on blogs and at least half relate to Thesis, despite the fact that it’s very much a minority framework. The disproportionately large number of emails regarding Thesis is a good indication [...]

Thesis and the Facebook Like Plugin

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One of the best ways of promoting your blogs is via Facebook integration. There are a number of ways of achieving this, but I’ve found that the most organic and least intrusive way of promoting a single post is the Facebook like button (not unlike posting a link to your Twitter stream). It isn’t associated [...]

Thesis and Yet Another Featured Posts Plugin (YAFPP)

There are a large number of plugins that simply don’t work with Thesis for one reason or another – particularly widgetised plugins – but that doesn’t mean that you can’t use them. If you don’t know much about the thesis framework (no, it’s not a theme) then you’re likely to be unfamiliar with hooks. If [...]