I had to add a header graphic to a site using the Thesis the other day.  I found this blog post on how to do it and it worked really well.  However, there were a few additional tips which helped me along the way.

1. Initially I put the image in the wrong folder.  My mistake. The header graphic should be uploaded to the “custom/images” directory of your Thesis theme installation.

2. In following the tutorial I copied the CSS from the tutorial however, it took some fiddling to get my image to position correctly.  In the end it was simply a case of reducing the height of the .custom #header #logo thus:

     a { display: block; height: 100px;

I also had to move my logo image down a bit for it to look right using the css code change:

     .custom #header { padding: 20px 0px 0px 0px; }

What this is tell the image to add a 20px padding to the top.  It is using the shortened form of padding property.  The padding property can have from one to four values for example:

padding:25px 50px 75px 100px;

• top padding is 25px
• right padding is 50px
• bottom padding is 75px
• left padding is 100px

Hope that helps.

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Since R5 Ltd took full ownership of WPRemix back in April, they have been working hard on what has now been released as version 3.0  WPRemix is a premium theme for WordPress. This launch coincides with the release of WordPress 2.8.

With over 50 page templates, drop down menu’s and colour schemes, this theme looks very interesting as an alternative to Thesis for people who want less flexibility and interaction with CSS.  You can see an interactive demo at http://wpremix.com/demo/

We have a full review of the WPRemix theme scheduled over the summer.  If you have any specific questions or points you’d like reviewed in detail, please leave a comment.

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In order to hide a page from showing in the navigation menu of a theme created in Artisteer it is simply a case of editing the correct part of the functions.php file in the root of the themes folder. You can access this either through the built in WordPress theme editor or via a text editor like EditPlus.

To hide the page from the Artisteer menu first you will need to get the page number. Then edit the function art_menu_items() in functions.php.  You can see below that all I have done is add the text ‘&exclude=12,3′ to line 527.

Edit the art_menu_items function in functions.php

Before I edited it line 527 read:

wp_list_pages('title_li=');

After I edited it it read:

wp_list_pages('title_li=&exclude=12,3');

Please do give me your feedback below if you find this technique useful and I will write more like this.

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When I set up a WordPress site that uses the Thesis Theme, I want to remove the Thesis attribution and put my own in instead.  If you have purchased the developer’s edition of the Thesis theme for WordPress, you can use a Thesis hook to remove it.  The savvy developers at Thesis extended the WordPress hook system with a host of their own hooks  (documented at the rtfm section of the Thesis theme’s blog). This makes it simple to both add and remove html with the hooks. There is actually a simple one line statement that you can add to your custom_functions.php file to remove the attribution link.

remove_action('thesis_hook_footer', 'thesis_attribution');

You can use this method to remove other html in a similar way.

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