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Thesis Custom Loop Starter Template

20 January 2011

As an addition to my article on how to use the Thesis Custom Loop API, here is a Custom Loop starter template you can use for your own loops. Every loop you can customize in Thesis 1.8 is stubbed in, and comments before each method provide helpful reference information. All you need to do is replace the one-line stub methods with your own custom loop code. You can delete any loop method you’re not customizing, or leave them in place for the future; they simply apply the appropriate default Thesis loop.

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How to use the Thesis Custom Loop API

17 January 2011

In the latest release of the Thesis theme for WordPress a new feature for advanced theme customization was added called the Thesis Custom Loop API. This article explains in detail what the Custom Loop API is, where it’s useful, and how to use it.

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Using Typekit with the Thesis Theme for WordPress

2 December 2009

The Thesis theme for WordPress offers excellent typography out of the box. But, like anything else on the web, it is limited in the number of fonts that it can reliably support, because there are not very many “web safe” fonts out there. TypeKit is a new service that promises to change that. This document explains how to use TypeKit with Thesis to enable more interesting typography on your Thesis-powered WordPress web site.

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Aldosoft Relaunched

25 November 2009

Two weeks ago I relaunched the Aldosoft web site, improving both the visual design and the code behind it, and adding a blog for posts like this one. This article is a brief description of the technical changes and additions.

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Applying Thesis styles in print

11 November 2009

Although Thesis is the most advanced WordPress theme available, it does not provide a print stylesheet, and so web pages print completely unstyled. This is a problem that is easily solved with Thesis’s customizability, and a few lines of CSS.

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Making Your WordPress Blog Appear in a Non-Root Folder

8 August 2009

It’s easy to use WordPress to build an entirely static content site, based on Pages. The setting for changing the Home page from a list of Posts to a static Page is easy to find, and obvious in use. But moving the blog to the same level as other sections of the site is not so obvious. There are multiple related settings, and even the WordPress Codex page on the topic is out-of-date.

This article documents the simplest approach required to build a site like this one, a basic mostly-static WordPress site, where the blog is not the focus of the home page, but pushed down to the same secondary “non-root” level as all the other pages.

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