Thesis theme customization is a hot topic among the growing crowd of enthusiastic Thesis theme for WordPress users. This WordPress theme is pretty cool right out of the box, but eventually users want to tweak the functionality or the look and feel of their website.
Since I wrote my review of Thesis theme, the DIY guys have continued to improve it. Some of the improvements in version 1.7 are:
- Thesis 1.7 is noticeably faster and more efficient
- Easy redirects for affiliates — there is now a box on every post and page to redirect that page to another URL
- Cool new Options page that allows you to save your settings to use on another installation or you can share you settings with a friend. Skin developers can use this to easily transfer their skins with customers.
- More SEO customization — robot meta tags, title tags, noindex, nofollow, noarchive at the site and individual page and post levels
- Easy access to Javascript libraries
Cool Trick #1 — Among the standard Thesis theme customization tools is the option to change the color of the navigation menu. One of the consequences of changing the text color to a lighter color or a white color is that the “Subscribe” link text at the top right of the screen disappears. Here’s some code to add to your custom CSS that will override the color for that link.
/*---Make SUBSCRIBE black color---*/
.custom .menu .rss a, .menu .rss a:hover { color: #111111 }
Of course you can change the color: setting to any color you want.
Cool Trick #2 — Sometimes you want to turn off comments on a page. You can easily do that in the settings for that particular page with any theme, but then you are left with text on the page that says “comments are closed”. Here’s some Thesis theme customization CSS code for getting rid of that text:
/*Remove Comments Are Closed from pages */
.custom .comments_closed p { display: none; }
Both of these should be placed in the custom.css file. This file can be accessed from the Thesis menu in your WordPress dashboard. However, I suggest you save a copy of this file through your ftp program or Fireftp or your cpanel file manager just in case you mess something up and need to restore the working copy.
Thesis theme customization can add your own personal look and feel to your website or blog. I recommend buying the developers option because once you use it on one website, I guarantee you will want to use it on all your sites!
