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Re: Movies, Television, and Children

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:38:29 -0000

Kenley,

What a great post. I think about the exposure of my kids to all forms of media too. We do have a television, but we do not have cable/satellite. They only have DVD's to watch.

In fact we started a tradition called "Friday Night Movies" where I select a movie they have never seen and we all gather around to watch together. Some of these shared experiences inspire great conversations about what we have just seen, so in that sense I see it serving a purpose to get the kids thinking about people, relationships, and how people treat one another.

However, I do agree that mindless watching to 'numb the mind' is not a healthy practice—why we do not have cable. I think if the decision to watch something is a conscious one, that good things can come of it.

Re: The Courage of Parents

Bert Mahoney — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:58:38 -0000

I am moved by this. I have 3 boys, 7yrs, 5yrs, and 2 yrs—and I feel for the family. I work hard at being present to the joy they bring to life every day.

I have been and still am an organ donor. I hope others see what they leave behind can do to help those in need.

My heartfelt sympathies to the family and admiration for their decision in helping people.

Re: 85+ of the Best Twitterers Designers Should Follow

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:22:55 -0000

Joshua, in total agreement with you on your comment. Think I should post something to my blog, "The 1 list that has all the answers to everything you ever wanted to know" and have a link to a search engine. Cmon please.

Lists are sometimes helpful when looking for solutions to problems, but a list like this is nothing but a snapshot in time of someones taste. Not facts, but opinion.

Besides there are some key people not on this list, zeldman, eric meyer, etc.

Re: Advertising Agencies need to wake up

Bert Mahoney — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:28:30 -0000

Well, you know... I'm working on the web site now. My plan is by the end of the year I will have everything working as it should.

In terms of the "flashy" aspect of designer sites I can understand what you are saying up to the point where the flash gets in the way.

Re: So much to say, so much to say…

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:54:11 -0000

Jon, thanks for caring. Really. That does matter.

To answer your question I am not sure if I did make the right choices with that time. When I sit and think about it I don't think I have anything to show for it. Not even memories because I can't remember. That is sad. At least if I was doing something other than typing on a computer it could be something cool. Like you with your fishing stories. In any event I am going to make a concerted effort to be better with my time.

If I post to the blog, cool. If I spend more time with people I care about, cool. As long as I am spending my time how I want that is cool with me.

Re: Some thoughts on the first day of 2009

Bert Mahoney — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:38:18 -0000

Yeah the blog design is a never ending work in progress. Changed some things tonight and have some more tweaks in store that will roll out over the next week. I'm on board with being more 'social' in 2009.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:13:33 -0000

No problem Kathy. I struggled with this code for a while and thought that it might save a few people many hours of frustration. Glad it helps. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:23:54 -0000

Hi Jen,
Based on what you are describing and the link you sent above I think you can do what you want. You can certainly create a page template and apply it to any specific pages you like.

So it is entirely possible to apply a template to just one page, or to every page but a specific one. You just need to structure your logic correctly.

If you can be more specific I can try to help.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:46:57 -0000

rumblepup,
Thanks for the compliment. I think I may do a tut on extra sidebars. You are the second person I have come across who would like to do that. Are you wanting a 3rd sidebar? What kind of sidebar configuration are you after?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:15:39 -0000

Hi doug,
Yes you do need to create a "home" page and then select it from the drop down menu. What you are seeing now is the default WordPress behavior. Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:38:16 -0000

hi doug,
Once you indicate a custom template and follow the instructions above, you will need to code each different layout, or *look* that you would like and use the right logic to get them to show up on the proper pages.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:26:10 -0000

Hi Amit,
I believe you could use the 'is_category' or the 'in_category' conditional tags to test and then implement the code you would like. For example:

function new_categorypage() {
if (is_category('5')) { ?>......

In the code above you would substitute your category ID where the number "5" is.

You can find the syntax for category testing here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_C...

Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:35:14 -0000

Hi Mario and Lisa,

To the best of my knowledge you should be able to do that without having to create a separate directory.

The only clarification I need to help me understand what you are asking is when you say:

"I’m looking to create a custom homepage using my own html, and none of Thesis body content."

Do you mean you want to use no html generated from Thesis AND WordPress?

Or do you mean only the HTML content generated in the content area? (header, sidebar, footer all generated by Thesis/WordPress?)

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:54:42 -0000

Hi Jen,
You *should* be able to upload your index.html file to the root level via FTP and it will supersede the index.php file from WordPress. WordPress has behaved that way for me in the past. Just ensure you link from your index.html file to http://www.yoursite.com/index.php

Once caveat, the home link inside of WordPress may take users to http://www.yoursite.com and thus they will see the the splash page again. Just be aware of that. You could hard-code the link inside of custom_functions.php.

Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:59:20 -0000

Mario and Lisa,
Yes. You will find that the home link will take you back to the root level, in this case index.html instead of index.php.

You will need to create custom navigation to override the home link and change it to index.php. Here is an example:

remove_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'thesis_nav_menu');
function add_custom_nav () { ?>
[ Put your custom navigation in here ]

<?php }

add_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'add_custom_nav');

This will remove the standard nav and replace it with your own, custom defined version.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:09:05 -0000

hi lawton,
thanks!
you can certainly place only the content from your specific page. I would follow the "press page" example above and then only put the_content() into the page.
Let me know if you have more questions.

Re: You will not end your life wanting more time on the computer.

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:54:23 -0000

Hi Kate,

It is certainly more productive in the long run. I am finding that I stay offline on weekends until late Sunday (in order to get organized for the week ahead. I'm finding no computer on Friday night, Saturday and most of Sunday is really helpful. Definitely feel better about returning to the machines after a good break.

Thanks for your compliment on the Thesis tut. I have another one in the works right now. Should be online sometime soon.

Best regards.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:23:18 -0000

Hi Gregory,
Yes. You would not find any reference on the Thesis website to that function. It's buried in another part of the theme. I have been on Twitter with Chris Pearson, the Thesis developer, and he was gracious in answering my questions. He directed me to the location of that function.

It is here: ~/themes/thesis/lib/html/sidebars.php

NOTE: If you modify any files outside of the /custom/ directory then you run the risk of not being able to seamlessly update Thesis.

Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:32:06 -0000

Hi MirzaLou,

If what you want is a tutorial on customizing the navigation with drop downs the best tutorial is at Kristarella's website.

As to your question on where to begin with your customization I think it depends on what your goals are. What things do you want to change?

If you look at the entire scope of changes it may cause you to feel overwhelmed. However, if you tackle each item singularly you will customize your site and learn piece, by piece.

So I would suggest figuring out what you specifically want to do, break it down into specific tasks, then figure out how to complete each of those tasks. It will, no doubt, involve a bit of html, php, and css depending on what you are after.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:42:38 -0000

Hi Alex,
I would setup your homepage using the Thesis settings under the Appearance tab when you are logged in as the Administrator. Get your sidebars, etc. to show how you want using the default toolset.

Then for your categories and pages I would use the tutorial above to setup your page layout templates how you like. As far as learning PHP and CSS... for me it has been years of self-taught trial and error.

My education included programming, but it was FORTRAN, COBOL, PASCAL, and some Machine Language for good measure. I learned principles of programming from taking those classes which help me now, but aside from that its hack and see what sticks.

You can try this link for CSS help: http://www.w3schools.com/css/

And for PHP this may help:
http://www.w3schools.com/php/

Hope this helps.

Re: Noticing Things That Are Broken

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:42:40 -0000

Hey John,
Are you referring to projects that end up not coming to fruition? We both know a few of those.

Your comment makes me think of Godin's other book "The Dip." (looks like I am bowing to Godin, I'm not a 'true follower' but do find some of his ideas interesting) Perhaps one has to know when to quit and get out before spending too much time on things that will not bear fruit.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:22:21 -0000

Hi Julie,
Yes, you do get the source code from other files that are setup how you like combined with the customizations that you want.
You also need to identify the page you want to have this custom template applied to and develop the right logic so it happens how you want it to.
You asked where to find source code that is being used for the pages. You can find it in here. NOTE: Don't edit files inside this directory or you are playing with fire. :-)
You may open the files in this directory to copy/paste elements into your custom_functions.php to play around and get what you are after.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:30:36 -0000

DigitialDoyle, Bruce, Loren,
Thanks for the compliments on this. Much appreciated.
--
The Mules,
Actually yes the graphics part could be its own tutorial. Did not think that when I wrote it up.
--
Neil,
I took a look this morning with Win/IE7 and everything on my end looks as it should. Could I trouble you for a screen capture of what you are seeing? Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:45:24 -0000

Hi Paul,
Thanks for the link to the plugin.
Thinking about this ID issue I realized I may not have been specific enough. By default you should see it in the bar at the bottom of your browser, not necessarily on the 'tool tip' hover. If you have changed your permalink structure in the admin tools of WordPress then this would not work either (as is the case on this website) and the plugin would be the way to go.
Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:34:47 -0000

Hi Dan,
Can you email me a screen shot of what you are seeing?
I don't see it on my end.
Thanks!

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:47:24 -0000

Hi Jason,
Thanks for the compliment. As is the case in many things WordPress there is more than one way to tackle what you want to do with your headers. However, since we are working within Thesis I think the best thing to do is to build a subroutine that tests for pages/posts/categories and then inserts the correct header. Then you could run that subroutine in the standard Thesis template using hooks, or if you have custom page templates you could reference the 'custom_header_subroutine' within it.
BTW, checked out your website. So cool! I needed a reminder about escaping adulthood. Is that the website you are looking to use Thesis with?
Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:50:52 -0000

Hi CARP,
Yes, you most certainly can do what you are after. In fact I am in the process of finishing up a tutorial on multiple-sidebar-options. In the default WordPress/Thesis environment you only have 2 sidebar options. My tutorial will show you how to create as MANY sidebars as you want/need and how to use it in combination with the principles in this tutorial to get exactly what you are after. I should have this tutorial published within the next week.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:21:31 -0000

Hi Nicky,
Thanks. I should have the sidebar tutorial online by end-of-day Monday (hopefully sooner if possible). Stay tuned.
Cheers,
berchman

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:40:23 -0000

Hi Mary,
You first need to create a new page and add its content. While viewing the page you make sure you have "Custom Template" selected from the right side pulldown menu (look at the tutorial above, it is spelled out). Once you have that done you need to go through the coding process I have outlined above ( in custom_functions.php ). This way the page is looking for its custom template and it is applied appropriately. Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:46:34 -0000

Hi flogee,
Are you asking if the site detects no Flash support to show a static image instead? Making it conditional?
You would need to do that inside the code at the top where it tests for Flash. If there was no flash you would insert the static image instead of the slideshow.
Additionally there is also the issue of Javascript support within the browser as well. You may need to test for that too.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:53:21 -0000

Hi Mary,
You most likely need to run the WordPress "loop" and pull the content you want in that way. You can read more about the loop here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Here is an example I use to pull the content for a homepage. You must have the page ID'd as the home page in Settings/Reading


<pre>
function home_pagecustom() {
if (is_home() || is_front_page())  {
?>

<div id="home_top_message">
<?php if (have_posts()) : ??>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ??>
</div><div id="home_message">
<?php the_content( ); ??>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ??>
<?php else : ??>
<h2>Not Found</h2>
Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ??>
<?php endif; ??>

</pre>

Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:01:56 -0000

Hi Swede,
There is one part of the tutorial that shows the code and how to put everything in the header.
Look for the title "What Is The Code?" It is about 3/4 of the way down the page.
The comment on the code starts with:

/* MOVING NAV BELOW HEADER */
.....

Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:07:40 -0000

Thanks for the kudos Lisa. I checked out your website. Quite cool. I like how you are keeping it real for people. Great topics, great content. Cheers!

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:30:59 -0000

George and Nicky,
Was having issues with my own Thesis install and had to work those out.
I should have the new sidebar tutorial up soon. Stay tuned.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:45:50 -0000

Hi Mike,
You need to turn the visibility of the layers on/off to show what you want. When you have it, save out a version of that for the web. Hope this helps.

Hi gabby,
I don't have experience with the Arclite theme. However, the principles above should work. If Arclite follows "standard" theme development then you would be making the edits to the header.php file. You posted no url where I can see what you are trying to do. Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:02:43 -0000

Hi Nicky,
If I understand your comment #2 correctly you are not calling the sidebar?
How are you calling sidebar 3?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:38:24 -0000

Hi Jenn,
You would follow the above code for the custom page template but do not call the sidebars at all. Depending on how you want the page width handed, etc. you would control that in you custom.css file. Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:55:28 -0000

Hi captain_jack,
the custom files (custom.css and custom_functions.php) need to be uploaded to ~/wp-content/themes/thesis/custom/

any custom images need to be uploaded to ~/wp-content/themes/thesis/custom/images/

Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:03:25 -0000

Hi Alan,
There are 2 ways to go about this. Simplest would be to copy down whatever widgets/customization you have in sidebar #1 and mirror that in sidebar #2. Then create a new sidebar #1 with whatever widgets you would like. Then in Thesis layout you could order your layout:

[sidebar-1 (new sidebar)] [ content-area ] [sidebar-2 (current sidebar)]

This should be the simplest way to do what you want. However....

If you want multiple layout options I would follow the directions in my other tutorial regarding multiple custom page templates. You are going to want to create a layout where you place your current sidebar to appear on the right and the new one on the left. You hand code it so you have have the order come out however you like.

Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:23:58 -0000

Hi Konrad,
I looked at your site with the css you provided. I noticed one thing:

.custom ul#tabs li.current_page_item a:hover {text-decoration:none; background:#FFFFFF;}, .custom ul#tabs li.current-cat a:hover {text-decoration:none; background:#FFFFFF}

You have an extra comma in there. I removed that, but it still had no effect on your slideshow. There is something going on with the slideshow, or the images.
Some basic questions: Are your images cropped to the exact size? Are they 72dpi?
Without looking inside your WordPress admin I'm limited at what I can suggest.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:27:38 -0000

Hi Pearl Squirrel,
Sometimes IE does have issues with PNG files and that is dependent on what version you are using.
Just visited your site in IE and I see the logo floating over the image slideshow.
Are you still having issues?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:46:20 -0000

Hi Mike,
I would suggest using header.php.
Hope this helps.

--
Hi Captain Jack,
Is your setup somewhere I can take a look at it?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:49:18 -0000

Hi Dough Roller,
For #1 if it is indeed for 'some' pages then I would create a custom page template and build the template layout to have only one sidebar. I would also "ID" the content area as 'content-wide' and then use css to style appropriately.

For #2 it depends. Many times there are multiple ways to 'skin it' so its just a matter of efficiency. If what you have going works for your purposes then 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:12:00 -0000

Hi Captain Jack,
I took a look at your site but since I cannot "see" your custom files its impossible for me to help out. Can you put it online in a subdirectory somewhere?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:15:00 -0000

Hi Jennifer,
If what you want is to list just the excerpts of your posts you should refer to excerpt basics here: http://bit.ly/19mirP

If you email me your custom_functions file I could take a look.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:16:12 -0000

Jose,
Excellent suggestions! Thanks for letting everyone know that info. I am sure it will help.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:17:26 -0000

Hi Anton,
When I just visited your website I see the sidebars. However I am using Google Chrome. :-)
Have you fixed it?

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:23:38 -0000

Hi Allison,
You are definitely on the right track. The key is inside custom_functions.php. The function you write to replace the home page has to be called by the proper "hooks." If your homepage looks like the rest of the site, and you have double checked that you have it set for 'custom template' in the pulldown, then I suspect the culprit is how you are using Thesis hooks to call the function and replace the homepage template. If the hooks were working your homepage would look different than the other pages, even if your home page template was not 100% accurate. The hooks would replace it anyway.

Take a look at the references about hooks and how you have them implemented. Then let me know if you have any questions. Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:20:46 -0000

Hi captain_jack,
glad you got onto Thesis. To change font-colour if you have not found it yet is inside /themes/thesis/custom/custom.css

Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:21:39 -0000

Nimwit,
Grazie for posting your alternate takes on the code.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:25:44 -0000

Hi Rupert,
I have not been able to do that. Actually have not tried it. You may want to ask your question on the official support area for the plugin on the wordpress.org site here: http://wordpress.org/tags/nextgen-gallery

Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:26:34 -0000

Looks like you have it taken care of.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:28:42 -0000

I would follow my other tutorial to create a custom page template. In that tutorial you can see how you could create a page layout that does not include any sidebars.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:30:44 -0000

Hi Lee,
Can you email me your custom_functions.php file?
I will take a look.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:36:20 -0000

Hi Marcus, Thanks for the comments. BTW you might check out my custom sidebar tutorial as well. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:39:05 -0000

Hi Joseph, It appears that you have fixed it. When I visit your site I see equal spacing around your entire nav menu. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:45:47 -0000

Hi Andrew, You can put custom php inside the hooks. It just a matter of tweaking until things work as you want. You may also want to checkout Open Hook. It may help as well: http://rickbeckman.org/thesis-openhook/

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:13:37 -0000

Hi Kaz,
Do you have a URL where I can look at your example? You can email me if you like.
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:27:46 -0000

Hi Shane,
As long as you are using standard Thesis templates the code in that tutorial only replaces the center content. The header and footer show as they should on all other pages/posts. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:34:21 -0000

Hi Keith, Your comment above makes me think it has to do with the < h1 > tag. However, I wouldn't know exactly without looking at the code on the html and css. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:42:14 -0000

Yvonne, Looks like you got it sorted out. I was going to suggest looking at the width of your content area in the css.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:42:56 -0000

Alex, do you have a link you can email me so I can take a look? It sounds like a div nesting issue.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Deleting Preferences and Resurrecting Them Again

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:47:31 -0000

Hi Jonathan, It has to do with the custom query you make and it depends on if you are using get_posts, or query_posts. More info can be found here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts
and respectively here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_...
Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:35:27 -0000

Mandy, you will want to edit the css that governs widgets. Widgets are put into an unordered list in the sidebar. Each widget is in a line item and you will want to adjust the margin and padding on that element.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:41:49 -0000

Hi Melvin, You are wanting the custom templates you create to show in the sidebar pulldown. To the best of my knowledge within the Thesis framework that is not possible. I have nto read or heard of someone being able to do that. However, if given enough time to work on it I imagine anything is possible. I would post this question to the Thesis forums to the larger Thesis audience.

Re: WordPress/Thesis Tutorial: Custom ‘Coming Soon’ Page

Bert Mahoney — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:00:32 -0000

Hi Laurie,
Brilliant! What a great suggestion. This helps with regard to developing custom page templates in Thesis.
When using custom templates in Thesis its necessary to have "custom template" selected in the page settings dialogue. Well if you are using the default theme this is not an option and for Thesis developers (like me) a slight headache. I have been trying to dev custom sidebars for a client project right now and the solution I present here, while it DOES work, still requires some hoop jumping not for the faint of heart.
The maintenance mode plugin is a great addition to the toolkit.
Thanks for sharing!
Cheers,
Berchman

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Sidebars However You Like Them

Bert Mahoney — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:34:18 -0000

Hi Robyn,
Yes that is the way to go.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:30:13 -0000

Kaz, are you trying this with all pages of the site? Or a specific one? If so, can you give me the exact URL?
==
robyn, yes. you have to apply the template using the sidebar pulldown in the page editor AND specify the page in the custom_function.php conditional.
==
aaron, yes you have it correct and what you explained is what robyn is asking.
==
marek, you are welcome.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Dynamic Image Header with Transparent Logo

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:24:25 -0000

@PSG I am wondering if that worked out for you. I think people are finding that depending on what their needs are they need to tweak the CSS to suit. Let me know if you have any questions.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:27:49 -0000

Sherwin, In theory you have it correct. It really depends on how different each design is. If they are all completely different (quite an undertaking!) then yes you would need custom code for each page. However, if many/most of the pages would share common elements, ie. a certain sidebar will show on pages 1, 5, 27, 45, etc. then you could write functions for each of those page elements and create cascading if-then-else statements to 'mash-up' your pages as you need them to appear. Each distinct page element would need its own function. Let me know if you have any questions. Hope this helps.

Re: Thesis Tutorial: Multiple Custom Page Templates

Bert Mahoney — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:26:20 -0000

Hi Mike,
Are you certain that in the 'settings/reading' page in the admin area that you have the 'static' radio button selected and then select the appropriate page from the pulldown menu? This coupled with selecting 'custom template' when viewing the page in the 'edit' mode should do the trick.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Hope this helps.

Re: Chipper Jones

Bert Mahoney — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:53:53 -0000

Lots of offense but the defense isnt up to snuff with others in the hall. :-)