This Week in Thesis — January 18, 2009

Welcome to the third edition of This Week in Thesis, our weekly* feature here by which we can highlight all the great Thesis-related content our community is creating — reviews of Thesis, tutorials, add-ons, and so on.

Articles are eligible for inclusion if they haven’t been included before — regardless of whether they posted within the “week of” or not — and while I’ll be watching Technorati and Twitter (hashtag: #thesiswp) for relevant content, I’ll no doubt miss plenty.

For that reason, I invite you to share links — whether yours or not — that you feel deserves a mention here with me; you can send me your ideas on Twitter (@KingdomGeek) or via e-mail.

Special thanks to kristarella this week for helping to compile several pieces of news!

* I’m using the word “weekly” loosely… Some weeks we may see nothing, others we may see a ton.

• Thesis Design Work: Looking for someone to customize Thesis for you? Or are you a designer wanting to advertise your skills? Follow the new #thesisdesigner hashtag on Twitter!

• “Historic” style for Thesis: This one should have been mentioned here ages ago, and for that, I apologize. Instantly give your Thesis site a new look with the Historic theme! (Just be careful not to lose any changes to your custom/ folder first; save them, and add them back into Historic after it’s installed!)

• Easy Tweet Display: It seems as though a new plugin shows up all the time to display your latest Twitter tweets on your blog; Kristarella shows us that a plugin is not necessary for a sweet tweet display.

• Random Header Images: Want to spice up your header display? Add a random header image akin to the Neoclassical theme’s. (Note: This tutorial requires access to our forums and is accessible to DIYthemes members only.)

• Appetites Whetted for 1.4: Earlier this week, Chris dropped a link to an image on Twitter. If you missed it, check it out. Based on that image (and conversations I’ve had with Chris), Thesis 1.4 is going to not only be much more usable (far less mucking around with custom fields!), but you’ll no longer need a plugin to handle SEO title tags. That’s right, Thesis will be able to tackle that all on its own!

• Show Off Your Site: Want to show off your mad design skills? Submit your site to the Thesis CSS Gallery, a directory of Thesis-powered sites only. How will users rate your site? Submit and find out!

• ♫ Deck the Ps with Icons of Awesomeness ♫: Thesis has a couple of built-in classes you can use on your paragraphs while posting to make them stand out from surrounding text; however, what if you wanted to make them really stand out? Add some icons to them! There’s no end to the choices of icons you could use, and here’s a good list to get started.

• Stats for Visitors Only: Want to make your Google Analytics stats even more useful? Exclude yourself from being tracked! After all, do you really care how often you visit your site? No? Well, Bruce shows us how to keep Google Analytics from tracking admin traffic.

• You 404′d it. Gnarly, dude.: Want to replace Thesis’ default Content Not Found error verbiage with your own copy? Sugarrae shows us how to customize our 404 pages making use of Thesis’ hooks system.