I have switching to Thesis on my to-do list for the Spring.

In the past I was relegated to WP 2.0.5 and Pearson’s Neoclassical theme. Now, I recently customized Pearson’s Cutline theme for my current site and moved to WP 2.7. I’m in my first month with the new site. But to date, I’ve never topped 14% in terms of visitors coming through Search Engines. I always get 86-92% through Direct Links/Bookmarks.

How much will Thesis improve that 14% figure? Or, is there something else I’m completely missing? Your honesty is appreciated. Thanks!

Tim

Regarding language translations, I’m hoping to make that a reality in 2 updates’ time.

maleos — Thesis 1.3.3 is compatible with WordPress 2.6, so you can upgrade without fear of breaking anything.

function custom_category_function() {
    if (is_category()) {
        if (is_category($cat_slug)) {
            // Your code here
        }
    }
}

The outer is_category() call makes it so that the function will only run on category archive pages. The interior is_category() call is optional and is only used to target an individual category without affecting all your other category pages.

To illustrate this concept completely, let’s look at a quick example. In this case, let’s say that we want to change the intro text at the top of all of our category archive pages (example here). Here’s what you would need to add to your custom_functions.php file to make it happen:

function custom_category_function() {
    if (is_category()) {
?>
<div id="archive_info">
    <p>W00T! This is a category page!</p>
    <h1><?php single_cat_title() ?></h1>
</div>
<?php
    }
    else
        thesis_default_archive_info();
}

remove_action('thesis_hook_archive_info', 'thesis_default_archive_info');
add_action('thesis_hook_archive_info', 'custom_category_function');

The action calls at the end of the above code do two things. First, we’re un-hooking the original archive information block because we’re going to replace it with one that allows us to target categories specifically. Next, we’re going to hook our new function into the same location via the add_action command.

For your purposes, you’ll want to modify the HTML that appears in the block above. You can serve anything you want in there—seriously, the sky is the limit. Check out Sugarrae’s customized Affiliate Marketing category page for a prime example of a pimped-out category page that is constructed using Thesis’ hooks.

Pleeeeease.