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  • Ease with Thesis WordPress Theme Design options panel

    Thesis v1.8 is so far the best version up till now and waiting for the next update of thesis theme, that is Thesis v2.0. If you haven’t bought the copy of Thesis yet, click on the link here to Download Thesis Theme.

    About thesis wordpress theme, great SEO and flexibility is not all, Thesis has a lot of inbuilt design options panel for enhancing the typography as well as the layout of the blog. In this article, I will give you a quick overview of the Thesis WordPress Theme Design options panel. Thesis Design options are sorted into different sections like layout, typography, Scripts and other Miscellaneous options. You can also refer to the screen shot below:

    Thesis-Theme-Design-Options-thcreatology

    Thesis theme design options panel will ease you in organizing the website content in an efficient way. Here under, I will explain you about the Layout, Typography, Scripts and Misc. options.

    Layout

    Layout of the website is what matters the most, and it depends upon the nature of the website. For instance a 3 column layout website  is effective where there is more of content to be published, like a magazine style WordPress theme has. Thesis Theme has an option to switch between 3-column, 2-column or 1-column. Below is a screenshot which shows the layout selection in Thesis Theme.

    Layout-Thesis-Theme-Design-Options

    Typography

    Fonts play a vital role in presentation of the content on website. Thesis Theme has variety of options to enhance and customize Typography of a blog. There are a lot of fonts, comprising the Gothic, Typewriter, Old english style etc… We can also vary the different fonts in different parts of the website, for instance assigning Arial to Navigation Menu, Georgia to Post Title and Verdana to Body content. Below is a screenshot for selecting the fonts in thesis theme.

    Fonts-Thesis-Theme-Design-Options

    Scripts

    Everyone of us are aware of JavaScript and jQuery codes which enhances the usability of the websites. There is a drawback of using these scripts as they take time to load in browser depending upon the network and system. Usually scripts snippets were added in header which on parsing by browser increases load time of the website. Yet another benefit of Thesis Theme is that it allows you add scripts in a preferred position, so that it doesn’t affect the page load time. Refer to the screenshot below:

    Scripts-Thesis-Theme-Design-Options

    Miscellaneous

    A website is incomplete without multimedia presentation or a content slider or may be a video in it. Thesis Theme has a multimedia box widget for sidebar, which can embed video player, image sideshow or any other multimedia content. It also has a custom code option in the list, which can add any code snippet likely a flash or a Javascript. Refer the screenshot below:

    Miscellaneous-Thesis-Theme-Design-Options

    There are still a lot of options in Thesis Design Options, as I chose to brief you about essential ones. I will summarize the essential points discussed above for the ease of Thesis WordPress Theme Design options panel, before ending this article.

    Summary of Thesis Design options:

    1. Select Layout Option depending upon the need (3-column, 2-column or 1-column).
    2. Select fonts and vary fonts in different parts of website to enhance Typography.
    3. Add code snippet in order to prevent page load time.
    4. Add multimedia content for effective presentation in website.

    For any queries or assistance required, post comment as your feedback. If your WordPress blog is currently using a custom theme, then you can also redesign it using the Thesis Theme Services.

  • Tutorial to Install Thesis Theme on a WordPress Blog in 3 steps

    When it comes to great features, Thesis WordPress Theme is what comes in my mind for a WordPress Blog or website. Being a Thesis Developer, I believe Thesis Theme is highly SEO optimized with many other flexible options.

    In this tutorial, I will guide you to install Thesis theme on a WordPress Blog. If you haven’t bought a Thesis Theme yet, then you can buy/download your thesis copy now by visiting the link: Download Thesis Theme

    After buying, login to the Thesis Theme account on DIYThemes, where you can have a fresh copy of Thesis WordPress Theme and it will be in a Zip format. (Save the zip file on your hard disk for future reference)

    Once you have the thesis theme, follow the procedure below:

    • Step #1: Login to the WordPress Dashboard  Admin and navigate to Appearances > Themes. (you can also refer the screen shot below)

    step1-install-thesis-theme-tutorial

    • Step #2: On clicking the Themes menu item under Appearance, we land to Theme Management for WordPress. Select the Install Themes Tab and further click on Upload link. Using the Browse button navigate and select the thesis_18.zip file on the hard disk. Now, click the Install Now button to upload it.  (you can also refer the screen shot below)

    step2-install-thesis-theme-tutorial

    • Step #3: On next screen, click on Activate button to apply Thesis as your WordPress Blog Theme now. If not now, we can also skip this step, by clicking on the Return to Theme page button.  (you can also refer the screen shot below)

    step3-install-thesis-theme-tutorial

    • We are done: On activating Thesis theme in the above step, you will be redirected to the Thesis Site Options Page and greeted with a welcome message, which indicates that the Installation of Thesis theme was successful. (you can also refer the screen shot below)

    step4-install-thesis-theme-tutorial

    With this we come to end of this tutorial, but you can look up or play around with Thesis Options. For any query or further assistance required post your feedback as comments below.

    I will come up with more articles on Thesis Options and Customizations soon. If your WordPress blog is currently using a custom theme, then you can redesign it using the Thesis Theme Services.