On Thesis Customizations

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Some days you just feel the love…

When I built the Social Mallard site I was determined to both use the Thesis theme, and still make it reflect my own brand. Fortunately some great folks at ThesisThemes.com are starting to build skins for Thesis, so I used one as the basis for the site design, and then added my own flourishes (for example, look at the variable “sub header image” of ducks on the home page vs Services page vs blog or the RSS/email icons floating off to the top left).

If you’re using, or planning to use, Thesis for your own blog and want design tweaks – large or small – consider sending me a note. In addition to providing blog content and general strategy, I love working with WordPress themes and Thesis in particular, and would be happy to help make your blog reflect your unique “you.”

I’m a small shop, just starting out, so my client list isn’t vast (here is a recent site I built – LalaTravels.com, hip mom travel blog plus landing pages using Thesis, with an iWeb migration thrown in to boot). But I’m passionate about customer service, charge very reasonable rates, and love working with interesting people and projects. I think you’ll find working with Social Mallard on your Thesis-based blog well worth it.

http://www.mikedegreef.be/ Mike

Nice article,

How can i use the content and sidebar div as one content? I mean let the sidebar disapear with display: none but use the room that comes free for the content(so the text also appear in the sidebar.
Hope it's clear for you

Thx in advance
Mike
socialmallard

Hi Mike,
Sorry on the delayed reply. I think what you're looking for is to display pages or blog post with the sidebar removed, so your main body contact stretches across the page. If so, two options, assuming you are using Thesis:

1) Head into the Design Options menu (under Appearance on your WP dashboard), expand the “Site Layout” section, and select “1 Column”. This gives you a single content column for the entire site. However, if you'd like to keep your sidebar on some pages and your blog, yet get rid of it on selected pages, try this:

2) Create a new page. On the right side of the editing screen, select the Templates drop down menu, and select “No Sidebars”. This gives you a single page, with the sidebar(s) removed so all you see is the main body content column.

I hope that helps. If not, feel to email me at socialmallard@gmail.com or reply in the comments here and I'll try to help further.
http://www.socialmallard.com/ Kevin Briody

Hi Mike,
Sorry on the delayed reply. I think what you're looking for is to display pages or blog post with the sidebar removed, so your main body contact stretches across the page. If so, two options, assuming you are using Thesis:

1) Head into the Design Options menu (under Appearance on your WP dashboard), expand the “Site Layout” section, and select “1 Column”. This gives you a single content column for the entire site. However, if you'd like to keep your sidebar on some pages and your blog, yet get rid of it on selected pages, try this:

2) Create a new page. On the right side of the editing screen, select the Templates drop down menu, and select “No Sidebars”. This gives you a single page, with the sidebar(s) removed so all you see is the main body content column.

I hope that helps. If not, feel to email me at socialmallard@gmail.com or reply in the comments here and I'll try to help further.

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