Of course there do exist dozens of guides to Thesis Theme Customization, so I decided to pick 9 of every level from beginner over intermediate to professional. Besides my method of hand-picking your favourite search results I will also give you a brief summary of those Thesis Theme Resources you are going to click through!
9 Thesis Theme Guides for Beginners
- Thesis Theme User’s Guide @ diythemes.com
DIYthemes.com itself proves professionality and superb support by answering most of your questions related to Thesis in the first place. By reading the manual you will learn how to install and maintain the Thesis Theme, setting up a nice navigation menu on your blog, change fonts and layout with ease, add custom backgrounds and header images – and how to use the famous & mighty Thesis Hooks! - Video Introduction to Thesis Design Options @ diythemes.com
Without reading boring text you will learn how to use the Thesis Design Options panel in a efficient way. You will also realize that most of the customization takes place in that very panel – you do not necessarily have to dig into complex CSS files to make your blog look great and outstanding. - How to Add Adsense Section Targeting @ wolf-howl.com
Although the seemingly complicated Thesis Hooks are used in this short tutorial you should not hesitate to make the most of your Adsense ads right now! With ad section targeting you are telling Google where to look for the content which is used to display context relevant ads on your blog. Easy! - Thesis Hooks for Dummies @ sugarrae.com
Rae Hoffman stretched the limits of explaining stuff that is hard to understand for many people who are new to either WordPress blogging and the Thesis Theme: She created an easy-to-catch Hook reference which will definitely answer most of your questions regarding the implementation of powerful commands to your blog. Study this masterpiece of education and you’ll get going very soon. If all the info material about Thesis Hooks is understood you might want to skip to more professional tutorials… - Add Twitter Follow Me link @ doublemule.com
“If you can blog you can tweet”, said a wise man some time ago – he is perfectly right. In this easy tutorial you will learn how to integrate your own Twitter profile picture and link in your blog. No Thesis Hooks this time, but you’ll need to add the subscription widget to your sidebar first (that’s easy, too). - Creating Custom Categories @ sugarrae.com
With only little knowledge of Thesis Hooks you will be able to perform some serious magic with your categories! As you can see at the top of this post there is a custom message for this very category. Create a more interesting experience for your visitors by adding customized layouts, images or just texts to your categories. - Customize Thesis CSS Inside Your Posts @ randomphobia.com
On another blog of mine (before I created ilovethesis.com) I recently added a nice tutorial about customizing special “zones” in your blog post with CSS. You can see what I’m talking about on my Why Thesis page. One of those dropdown buttons will reveal the magic… - Customizing the 404 Page @ sugarrae.com
Every now and then your users will experience a failure on your website which leads to a 404 error page. Those pages are mostly annoying and seldom informative. You can change that in case your visitors click a dead link or something like that. BTW: A cool resource for 100 well-designed error 404 pages can be found here. - 8 Thesis Design Tips @ howtomakemyblog.com
Marko Saric is helping you out with eight easy-to-understand tips about designing your top navigation menu, adding custom backgrounds for your sidebar and content area, implementing a “welcome” message before your original post content and much more. Eight easy steps to a better blog – must have read that…
PS: If you are heading for a really huge list you might also be interested in this post @ mattflies.com: 100 Resources for Thesis WordPress Theme Users – it’s a whole bunch of info there but lacks description…
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nice collection !!!
Yeah, thanks. Your comment almost looked like spam but you seem to be trustworthy ;-)
Good list. If you want more feel free to check out my list of Thesis Theme tutorials.
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