Everybody who is in love with Thesis 1.5.x will now literally admire Chris Pearson’s new attempt to make the blogging world a better one! Thesis 1.6 is coming and I think it will be rather soon than late. Yesterday Beta 2 was announced and is now ready for interested developers to be downloaded from diythemes.com – with a original masterpiece made even better you are now close to becoming a blog superstar. Well, in fact you have to do something about it in the first place ;-)
Discard your nerdy custom.css
People designing their blogs with Thesis 1.5 had to make any CSS customizations with an old-fashioned custom.css, now – with Thesis 1.6 (beta2) – you can just re-color e.g. your header navigation with a few clicks. That is, however, a change that most of us would have expected long ago. Well, now it has arrived and we are of course all happier than ever!
Even those sophisticated drop-down menus are ready to take off right in your very blog. The options are now implanted into the already close-to-perfect options menu. Attention: This new feature is know to be highly addictive, so you might find yourself spending hours on customizing your nav bars…
Beware of these things before upgrading
Because Chris wants all the custom files in one special place he finally moved your nerdy custom.css and the rotator directory into the custom folder. This is of course the only place where custom files belong, so let’s be happy about this improvement instead of whining. It’s easier to maintain and thereby simply the better choice. Another feature which some of us missed in prior releases.
However, the cute Thesis 1.6 Beta “Girlie” shouts out loud not to use the new beta 2 with serious projects where life and death depend on. Look at the screenshot I took from the forums.
What you can do with an improved Thesis 1.6
Marko Saric made a great video on how to use the new Thesis 1.6 beta 2 options galore and I of course want to share that with you. Do not miss his website howtomakemyblog.com as it serves you great pieces of useful information on blogging in general and with a special section for our daily Thesis Theme Love.
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Thanks for mentioning me. I appreciate it!
I love the domain name and the simplicity of your blog. Keep working and you will get far with it!
Good stuff needs to be promoted on a solid basis, so I am looking forward to more of those posts by you that I’m bound to mention in the future ;-)