Comments on: Thesis 1.1 Features and Improvements

By: Valerie Warner

Valerie Warner — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:42 +0000

Such useful information. I love this them and wordpress and I have only scratched the surface.

I am very new to WP, Thesis and website creation overall.
I have managed well and enjoyed the learning curve allthough it has also been overwhelming.
I understand much more following the infromation available on your site. I found it whilst looking for a solution to a problem I have.

I was experimenting with the Rotator File Images, for the Multimedia box, substituting the default for my own and I named the sample ones so I know exactly what they are as I want to use some of them.

I noticed on the files arrange themselves alphabetically so renamed the photos I wanted to use A picture, B picture etc so they displayed in the order I want – not yet knowing if there is a better way to do this which I am sure I will find.

When I had begun I realised I should have resizied the images and saved them at a lower quality prior to uploading them in to the Rotator file for display on my website.

I went back to delete them and succeded with all but one, which for some reason I can not delete. I receive the following message when I right click and delete (on the image)

Failed. A file with that name may already exist, or you may have mis-typed the folder name.

I have also noticed if I try right click and open, this does not work it is just a white space with a red cross in the corner very similar to those e-mails where you have to right click to download image.

On the actual website the image is too large and is on every page single page and I can not seem to find a way of deleting it.

I have also noticed that the Icon next to the image title is different to those of the default JPEGS. It is unclear but it is green where as the icons next to the other titles are the standard JPEG icons.

I hope that makes sense, but please do bear in mind I have just started. If any one is able to supply a solution even if it reinstalling or similar please could you kindly explain in very basic terms and step by step.

I need to delete this photo or restore the folder to its original state to start again, but without loosing what I have done so far if possible

Thank you in advance

Best Wishes

By: Chris Pearson

Chris Pearson — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:23:33 +0000

Maark — The Thesis multimedia box is pretty flexible. By default, you can choose to display rotating images, your own embedded video, custom code, or nothing at all. So to answer your question, yes, you can easily remove the multimedia box without having to make any modifications whatsoever.

By: Maark

Maark — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:00:04 +0000

I love Thesis and will likely buy it soon. But I don't want the Multimedia Box. I'd rather have nothing there or some 2-across display ad (like this Thesis site for example. Is there an option to remove it, or do I have to make some mods?

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:35:20 +0000

How do sub pages show up in the navigation menu? Drop down?

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:40:02 +0000

Chris, I feel your pain! I’m sure yours is much worse since you have to design a theme to be compatible with 5 browsers and three versions of IE!

I noticed the IE stylesheets in the header and will go ahead and create an IE8 one to see if I can fix the issue. You know off the top of your head what I would need to put in the IE8 only stylesheet for it to work properly.

I created a thread on this in the forums, but for some reason it’s “closed” and no one is responding on it. Thanks!

By: Chris Pearson

Chris Pearson — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:33:40 +0000

Aseem — I'm disappointed to hear that Thesis isn't rendering properly in IE 8, simply because this is a clear indication that Microsoft still hasn't addressed some of the core problems with their browser's CSS engine. In order to get the theme to behave properly in IE 8, you'd simply need to extend the IE-only stylesheets to cover version 8 as well. Right now, the IE-only stylesheets are being applied to versions 7 and below, so that's why Thesis looks janky in version 8. Again, this is disappointing—Microsoft should have fixed this in version 7, and the fact that they haven't (at least not yet) in version 8 makes me hate them all the more. Oh, and yeah, I'm right there with ya on moving the nav menu around. Look for more flexibility in that department in the next release.

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:02:16 +0000

Thanks Chris…also you may want to check out compatibility of the theme with IE 8. I’m running it on my site online-pc-tips.com with two columns and the side bar shows up way at the bottom in IE 8 only. I even removed all CSS customizations and it still looks like that.

Another nice feature would be to have the option of moving the header image above the nav bar, instead of the nav bar being above the header.

Great theme overall! Looking forward to more updates…can you write up a post on the features that will be in the next release. Thanks.

By: Chris Pearson

Chris Pearson — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:51:52 +0000

Aseem — I'm working on a header image uploader that will be simple and completely SE-compliant. Hopefully, I'll have it done for the next release.

By: Milo

Milo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:01:39 +0000

Chris — Yup, that is fair enough. I trust that thesis is going to reach a point that is valuable to both developers and the rest of the market alike. That is why I bought the theme. 🙂

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:29:12 +0000

Will the next version have an easy way to replace the header with an image? I read in the forums that it’s possible to do it using some CSS, but I didn’t like the method because it involves hiding text using CSS, which is not something Google likes. That feature would be great, something similar to the multimedia box where you can choose your logo image. Thanks!