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It Seems that Thesis 1.8 is Ready – Here are Thesis Theme Tutorials

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Thesis Theme Tutorials

From time to time, I like to check articles on the blog that we have published earlier. I fund out  that we reached 400 articles, I thought it will be a great day when we reach 1000 articles on our blog. I also found that I wrote some nice Thesis theme tutorials since we are using Thesis Theme on our blog.

The good thing is Thesis 1.8 is out, I can see it in my account at DIYThemes.com ready for Download. So, like always, test thesis 1.8 first before you use it, and don’t forget to do a backup for your blog data before install it on your blog.

Note: Thesis 2.0 is out, I can see it in my account at diythemes.com ready for Download

You can read about Thesis 1.8 beta and my personal impressions about it‘s new features.

I thought to collect all these links in one post to make more reachable in case someone is searching for information on how to customize Thesis Theme or add some design elements to their blogs. Tutorial mentioned on this post are written by me, it’s all about how I designed FamousBloggers.net blog. I am also thinking to create a special category for Thesis Theme to include all posts in one place.

Some News to share with you

Most of us want to have a unique blog design, it’s very important factor of success, especially in a very competitive niche. E.G. the blogging and making money niches. I had more than one reason to start a new project towards blog design and wordPress themes. I was having a small plan, and now after I worked out 80% of my plan, I am thinking to launch my new site in the coming days. I am sure you will like my idea, so.. subscribe to our newsletter, stay tuned, I will pronounce it soon.

The idea of my project is to deliver more skins for Thesis theme users in a form of a membership site, I hope it will help you to create a new and unique design for your blog without spending a lot of money. Basically what I am doing is creating a framework skin for Thesis theme, yes.. it sounds like I will create a frame work of another frame work, but it’s not really like that! what I am working on is provide a skin framework, it will help you create several designs from the same skin files by simple knowledge of coding, and even if you don’t know how to code at all, it’s not a big problem, we will have a good support to help you install and setup your new skin, and give you advise.

Here is my list of Thesis Theme Tutorials so far:

I will start with the #1 my best post ever and meeting with the best thesis designers out there.

  1. What Top Niche Web Designers Say about Thesis Theme for WordPress
  2. How to Customize WP Author Archive Page
  3. Add Twitter Anywhere in Thesis Theme TwitterLink Comments
  4. Solve Twitter ID after upgrade to Thesis 1.7 (it applies on 1.8)
  5. Thesis 1.7 A New Generation of Website Optimization
  6. The Best Page Navigation Plugin for Thesis Themes
  7. Add a stylish sidebar image buttons to Thesis Theme, get PSD and Sample Files

Enjoy your time!

I hope you find it useful, till we meet soon to pronounce the new website.

Have a great week ahead everyone.

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I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

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  1. Thach Pham says:
    And now Thesis 2.0 has been released, we can discuss about it.
    • Hesham Zebida says:
      Hi Tach, yes Thesis 2.0 is out, and I've started to use it on one of my blogs, looking forward to use it here on FamousBloggers.net on the first chance.
  2. Ben Troy says:
    The speed is so impressive, there is no error like the older version , I am running this
  3. Karan Labra says:
    Well I just shifted to thesis and I must say that I am in love with it. The amount of flexibility it gives to our design and its SEO abilities are exceptional.
  4. Udegbunam Chukwudi says:
    Looking forward to seeing more and more tutorials on how to use Thesis that way I might just be able to recommend it to my readers looking to go with a paid wordpress theme. Thesis' not having plenty tutorials on the net makes me a lot more comfortable with conventional good ol' wordpress themes ;-)
  5. Dr. Lawrence Kindo says:
    I am neck deep in the Thesis Theme game, and I know it has been a wonderful journey working with it, but with 2 big questions in my mind at present: 1. Brian Clark of Copyblogger moves to Genesis and vehemently starts a new collaborating team. Will DIYthemes hold water? What will Chris do next to make Thesis superawesome, without crossing the line with Wordpress? I love Wordpress and I love Thesis! 2. Hordes of bloggers moving to Studiopress with bad publicity for Thesis rising everyday. I wonder what google would think of all these? Will it penalize Thesis, Wordpress in general, or will it just keep things the same? That could have a huge influence on the future development of Thesis. Anyways, I am one of the first customers of Hesham's awesome thesis skins' site, ThesisAwesome, and I absolutely love the designs. No cheap designs, just cheap pricing! Keep up the good work Hesham.
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Dr. Lawrence , 1) Just trying to answer you depending on what I understand, Brian Clark is doing what's best for his business! Chris seems to be working a lone now! this probably will low Thesis sales, but it will not die! and yeah.. he have to do something super at least when Thesis 2.0 is out! 2) I think Google has nothing to do with this! More exciting news coming on the way, I will pronounce this coming week, and thank you for being one of the first members of ThesisAwesome.com and your kind words!
  6. ZK says:
    Would love to contact you for few thesis theme looking issue and I am sure you will help me.
    • Hesham says:
      Drop me an email at any time!
  7. Kamal Patel says:
    thesis is one of the greatest framework... and the newest version 1.8 makes customization easier as have in previous
    • Hesham says:
      This is true!
      • ZK says:
        Hesham you have provided great read for coming weekends and I am sure after reading these posts I will gain more in depth knowledge about the thesis and its design. Thanks again.
  8. Carlos Dagorret says:
    Great list of tutorials.
    • Hesham says:
      Thank you Carlos!
  9. Brian says:
    Thanks Hesham for the awesome list of tutorials. Thesis theme is tough to beat. I use it too and I love some of the new changes they're making with the 1.8 upgrade.
    • Hesham says:
      You are welcome Brian, I love Thesis because it teach me a lot! Enjoy your upgrade!
  10. Aaron says:
    Thanks again Hesham. I really think that floating sidebar icons are going to be the new design movement. The tutorial here is great, and adding onto it.. if you know a little bit of Javascript, you can make it so they don't even load until the mouse cursor is moved.. greatly saving bandwidth, but also keeping everything looking more dynamic as well. Big props to Thesis for opening up the theme for more customization abilities.
    • Hesham says:
      Hey Aaron, I have actually fixed some issues with the technique I used on that tutorial , now I am not using the same buttons, well.. I made new ones that all buttons have only one image (includes the button and the hover image), and I set a position of it's background! so the hover effect is more smooth and faster! Of course there are so many other way to do it to make even more faster! One good thing when choosing a hosting service, I go for unlimited bandwidth, I will hate seeing my site down because of that! Thank you for your opinion and feedback, much appreciated!
  11. Laura Davis says:
    Great list of tutorials. When I get around to setting up my new Thesis account, I'll be sure to check them out in detail :)
    • Hesham says:
      I will write more tutorials in the future, and also include these tips in my coming skins!
  12. Kimi says:
    Great! I am at the moment saving the blog's income to buy thesis :D Although there are some issues about GPL license out there, plus lots of people have been waiting for it, but thesis worth it.
    • Hesham says:
      This is great Kimi, I wish you god luck with that! Also the GPL problems are settled, there is no major problems anymore, Thesis already went GPL
  13. Dev says:
    Hey Hesham, That's really great news. Thesis is one of the awesome framework. Thanks for the updates.
    • Hesham says:
      No problem Dev, enjoy my friend!
  14. element321 says:
    Hesham, I can't wait to see your site redesign! What I have seen so far it looks great!
    • Hesham says:
      Thanks man, I am working hard on it now!
  15. Tia Peterson says:
    Thanks for the link to the tutorials. I got a message that Thesis 1.8 was out. Time to upgrade! Cheers, Tia
    • Hesham says:
      no problem, testing is a good thing to do, stay safe :)
  16. Julius says:
    Nice buddy. You know I am still not sure what the advantages of Thesis are. I mean I don't know why I should switch and start to use Thesis.
    • Hesham says:
      It's a framework! it's what I needed to create a unique blog design! is that enough?! :)
      • Tia Peterson says:
        hahaha come on, Hesham! You can do better than that to convince him to get Thesis! :) I don't know. I have Thesis and about 20 other themes/frameworks, too, including Genesis. One thing's for sure - Thesis is not for the lazy (and Julius is by no means lazy. Just saying).
        • Hesham says:
          lol I really don't need to convince Julius about it, I am sure he knows what's the best! And yes, this is not for lazy bloggers lol of course Julius is not one of them :)
        • Jarret says:
          I was a big fan of the Hybrid Theme Framework, but it's not as well recognized by designers since it's a Free Theme Framework. I recently switched though since I got too lazy too redesign new sites from my hacked up Hybrid News Child Theme. I had found a Theme designer who gave me a quote for a Hybrid based theme at one point. How much was the quote for? About $13,000.00, no joke. I looked at Genesis and by most accounts, it's a really good framework. I didn't go with Genesis since I couldn't find a child theme that worked for me. I like Hesham's work, so I'm excited to take a look at the new site.
          • Hesham says:
            Jarret, I will pronounce my new Thesis Skins project soon with a nice discount! although I am not sure you will like the skins I am having now but we can workout something that could work for you!
            • Jarret says:
              Hesham, I must have missed the announcement. I was waiting for your new Thesis skin site, but hadn't seen it until just recently. I found the link to it from another blog I was just reading. I'll take a closer look. A few things that I always thought was really cool about your design on this site are the related post thumbnails in the cool display, the author profile box, and the 2 column related post links /ads at the end of your posts.
  17. Bryan says:
    hesham I got thesis 1.8! I think Thesis is really good. Still trying to get the hang of the coding and all but I must say I'm impressed. I actually started using Thesis 1.7 a few weeks ago before I realized hey.. Thesis just updated yesterday?? So i quickly download it and it works without any problems :)
    • Hesham says:
      Glad to know you didn't have problems! working with Thesis theme teaching me a lot!
  18. Colleen says:
    I got the official annoucement of Thesis 1.8 sitting in my inbox. One of the things I need to do is install it and start playing with it. Thanks for the tutorials Hesham. Very timely! :)
    • Hesham says:
      It should be an exciting experiment, I am sure you will learn lots and will have a great time!
  19. Mani Viswanathan says:
    Yup, even the cost remains the same. I will try to collect funds for the developer licence before Thesis 2.0 comes :P
    • Colleen says:
      What costs are you refering to Mani?
      • Hesham says:
        Thesis Theme price will increase when Thesis version 1.0 comes out!
        • Colleen says:
          I purchased the developer's version a while back. I'm hoping I'm still good and do not have to pay again!
          • Hesham says:
            The new price goes only for new members! you will not have to pay any extra money!
            • Colleen says:
              Perfect! Sigh of relief! :)
    • Hesham says:
      Good luck with that Mani :)
  20. Tinh says:
    great news, thanks for your reminder. I will check it now
    • Hung says:
      Hope that Alex will fix bloggussion soon.
      • Hesham says:
        Do you mean you can not upgrade and use the bloggussion skin?
        • Hung says:
          It worked well with Bloggussion Skin. Just one thing .... Popupdomination wp plugin not work with this (i mentioned before)
  21. Lennart Heleander says:
    Hi Hesham, Thanks for the information, I going to read everything later today and see what I can use in my blog and site system.
    • Hesham says:
      Plz, Do backups and then you are fine !
  22. Hieu Martin says:
    Thank you for the list of thesis tutorials. I will get thesis ver 1.8 for my blog soon.
    • Hesham says:
      Good luck Hieu , enjoy your Thesis Theme upgrade!
  23. Nasrul Hanis says:
    Thanks a lot Hesham for sharing a lot of great information with us regarding to Thesis! However as I faced a lot of terrible problems while dealing with Thesis 1.8 beta, I'll wait for a while before upgrading until I can assure myself the bugs will not happen. Hopefully the new version will result in better performance!
    • Hesham says:
      Strange, I didn't have any problem with the 1.8 beta! what kind of problems you had?! Waiting for some time, and testing is good before upgrading!
      • Nasrul Hanis says:
        The comment section was not there at all including in the admin panel and I got difficulties while saving - a lot of bugs. I also wonder why I got those problems. Luckily I was testing on my new site so I had to reinstall my Wordpress installation and revert back to 1.7 version! Yeah, I'm waiting for some time and testing it first before upgrading my sites!
        • Hesham says:
          OK, sounds strange to me! testing is good!
  24. Michael Aulia says:
    It's already out? Cool! Haven't got the email yet but going to check at Thesis' site now. Still waiting for 2.0 though :)
    • Hesham says:
      Yes Michael, it's time to play! I am also still waiting for 2.0 but maybe I will upgrade this blog to 1.8 soon!
      • Michael Aulia says:
        Have already upgraded mine yesterday :) Nothing new that's too exciting for me though at this stage
        • Hesham says:
          The new features is not noticeable by itself, probably because you have your site already running, so maybe you will not need some of these features! But this is great for new blog if you are developing any! (just a thought!)
  25. Hung says:
    Thank you for the list of thesis tutorials. I get the update of thesis 1.8 this morning.
  26. DiTesco says:
    Awesome. One question though, since you know about my skin (lol). Is it safe to upgrade my version to 1.8? Can't wait to upgrade to both WP 3.01 and Thesis 1.8. it will rock!
    • Hesham says:
      There is no issues that I can find, upgrade was fine, even your skin has nothing really to break after upgrading! You just need to backup your custom skin folder, and also download full Thesis options before the upgrade!
  27. Jack says:
    This information is very important to me,I started with wordpress and would love to read your article guidelines Thesis.Thanks
    • Hesham says:
      That you for stepping by Jack!