Specificity in CSS is powerful. Once you know how it works, it can save you much time customizing and troubleshooting any website – especially Thesis.

Before we delve into specificity, let me give you a primer in CSS.
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3 Simple and Effective Comment Styling Tips for Thesis

by Alex Fraiser

Your community talks in your comments section. To facilitate this conversation, you want your comments section to be easy-to-follow because it will encourage interaction and loyalty.
“Out of the box,” Thesis Theme gives you the ability to enable threaded comments, which promotes conversation, and provides a slew of other options that let you tweak this area [...]

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How to Set Up Tracking Scripts with Thesis

by Chris Pearson

Stat-tracking software like Google Analytics and Mint require you to place a tracking script in your site’s HTML in order to function. With Thesis, this task is as simple as copying the given tracking code and pasting it into the Stats Software/Scripts section of the Thesis Site Options. Check out the video to see how [...]

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How to Use the Robots Meta Tags in Thesis

by Chris Pearson

One of the biggest problems with WordPress is the fact that it automatically generates different kinds of archive pages that can be indexed by search engines. From date-based archives (daily, monthly, yearly) to tags to categories, these auto-generated pages all contain duplicate content that doesn’t belong in search engines.
Why is this duplicate content a potential [...]

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How to Generate Affiliate Links to Any Page on DIYthemes

by Chris Pearson

After signing up for the DIYthemes affiliate program, you’ll have access to a basic affiliate link that points to the DIYthemes home page. This link is sufficient to get you started, but if you really want to be an affiliate ninja, you’re going to need to link to other pages of the DIYthemes site.
Why is [...]

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