One thing I have received the most attention about regarding the design of this blog are those yellow boxes in my sidebar that display random posts on the blog. People like it, and I got a comment on my last Thesis Thursday post asking how to create that box.

I decided that this week I would create a simple tutorial to show you how I did that effect here because I think it is a pretty cool trick.

This tutorial is easily adaptable for use on non-Thesis blogs, but for the sake of the series — the code will be written with Thesis in mind.

1. Preparations

Just to get a little prepared here, these are the things you will need for this tutorial.

• Access to the custom.css file
• Depending on what box you want (or if you even want more than one of them), you will need to use plugins from Rob Marsh. Your choices are:
  • Recent Comments
  • Popular Posts
  • Random Posts
  • Recent Posts
  • …for any one of those plugins, you need the Post-Plugin Library for them to work.
• Add a Widget in your Widgets panel

Once you choose what plugin you want, download it, install it and add it within your Widgets panel. Simple enough preparing, right? As long as you know what you want, the hard stuff is out of the way.

2. The CSS

Depending on the plugin you use, the CSS will be different. But the only difference is the #ID that is used, and that is easily changeable. So, the CSS code I use here is pretty simple, but I will explain it:

#random-posts li {
	background: #FFFBCC;
	border: 1px solid #E6DB55;
	line-height: 1.4em;
	-moz-border-radius: 5px;
	padding: 0.9em;
	-webkit-border-radius: 5px;
}

So what we have going on up there is pretty simple. We have a background which will allow you to switch up the color of the box, the border will surround the whole think, the line height controls the spacing between each line of the link, and the padding is the spacing from the box to the text. The -moz-border-radius & -webkit-border-radius will make the box rounded without images. They will only be round in Safari and Firefox, but it’s a neat trick to those who can actually see it.

I have colored in #random-posts because that is the thing that will change depending on which plugin you choose.

The ID’s you will need to use for the other plugins are below:

• #recent-posts
• #popular-posts
• #recent-comments

3. Customizing the output

You should have the yellow box around the link by default. It looks kind of boring, but because of how flexible this plugin is, making it look better is not a problem at all.

There are a lot of different things you can add to the box to make it look cool. The plugin makes adding things so simple too, and you really don’t need any coding knowledge at all to do it.

So to start, go to Settings → Recent Comments/Recent Posts/Random/Popular Posts → Output → Output Template. This is where we can add anything to the box. I will go over the two things I added to my boxes, which i think look sexy as hell.

66x66 Image

This will only work if you use Thesis teasers and have the 66x66 images for each post

You can paste this code into the Output Template box:

<li><a href="{url}"><img src="{custom:thesis_thumb}" width="66" height="66" alt="" /></a>{link}</li>

NOTE: If you let Thesis auto generate thumbnails, replace thesis_thumb with thesis_post_image in the code above.

The code calls the thesis_thumb custom field from your posts and puts it into the box. You will also need to add this CSS to make the image look right:

#random-posts img { float: left; padding-right: 8px; }

Add the date, and other stuff

If you look in my box, there is a date of when the post was published. The date can be replaces with a variety of things like comment count, views, tags, and a lot more. The code below will show you how to float things to the right.

First, replace the code in your Output Template with this:

<li><a href="{url}"><img src="{custom:thesis_thumb}" width="48" height="48" alt="" /></a>{link} <div class="right">{date}</div></li>

Add this to your CSS:

#random-posts div.right { color: #baaf2e; float: right; font-size: 11px; text-transform: uppercase; }

I added a little style to change the font color, size and case. This will bring whatever you wrap within <div class="right">...</div> to the right. But there will be a bug.

If you look towards the bottom of my box here, you will see a slight overlap

You will also need to add overflow: hidden; to the very first piece of code you added in Step 2. When the image is in the box floating, it will overlap the box, making it looks really weird. So, by adding that line to your CSS, it will make it look right, and the text will be inside of the box again.

Simple Enough, Wasn’t It?

That was pretty simple wasn’t it? The plugins used in this tutorial are extremely powerful, and allow you to customize your output extensively.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, as it was the first tutorial in the series. I hope you stick around for more posts here, and next week’s Thesis Thursday post! Is there anything you guys want covered for next Thursday?

PS: This is a really cool Thesis resource. Matt Langford wrote up a kick ass list of 100 Resources For Thesis you guys should definitely check out!

MAY 21ST, 2009

Hello and welcome back to Thesis Thursday! They say if you haven’t posted on a blog for a while to not bring it up, but it’s definitely been a while!

Since the last time I visited Thesis in an article, tons of things have changed with not only Thesis itself — but the community of Thesis owners and developers has seen a big change as well. More and more people are looking to have the best Thesis powered blog around.

For the longest of time, the Thesis theme has claimed to be an easy to use and customizable theme. While it has certainly proven to be a very usable theme, many people who have basic knowledge of a WordPress theme have found it difficult to customize it.

Sure, some pros like Kristarella, Greg Rickaby and many others have found their way through the hooks system like it was nothing. But, for the majority of Thesis users, who aren’t all web developers have been seeking a guide to help them customize their theme.

Lucky for all of us, Thesis 1.6 is close to its full launch and will make editing your theme much, much easier. Take it from me, I have used Thesis 1.6 and I have done a lot of customizing without even touching a single line of code.

But, even these new options won’t help many achieve their dream design. So that leads me to the main point of this post — being a freelancer in the Thesis community. The market for this theme is huge, and all it takes are a few good designs to get you started and on your way to becoming a freelancer.

My Short Story as a Thesis Freelancer

I have been creating designs on Thesis since April 2008. When I announced my return to freelancing, I started taking everything more seriously and really getting my act into gear and learning Thesis to the best of my abilities.

Ever since that post, I have been getting emails at all times of the day, from different people around the world in a vast variety of blog niche’s for me to work on their Thesis blog. I have been getting more requests than I can handle, and I do have to say “no” at times.

Basically, this post I am going to cover the three things you have to know if you want to become a freelancer for Thesis. The three topics I am going to talk about in this post are:

• Learning Thesis and resources for learning how to use it
• Pricing your services
• Marketing yourself

1. Need-to-know-info for any Thesis Freelancer

If you want to freelance for Thesis, it’s probably a great idea to have a clue as to what you are doing when opening up the Thesis options panel and creating your own hooks. Here are some resources I have found to help you get started:

Thesis Basics

• Customizing Thesis with custom.css
• How to customize like a pro with Thesis hooks
• Thesis Hook Reference List [I keep this in my bookmarks bar for quickest access]
• Thesis Hooks for Dummies

Customizing Thesis and Beyond

• Creating new widget areas in Thesis
• Using content filters for easier customization
• Thesis Footers 101
• Thesis OpenHook
• Creating custom Thesis categories
• Customizing the 404 page
• Creating Multiple Custom templates

Thesis pros on Twitter

• @godhammer
• @pearsonified
• @kingdomgeek
• @diythemes
• @girliegeek
• @kristarella

[see: 10 Thesis pros on Twitter you need to follow]

2. Pricing Yourself

I think being a regular freelancer and a Thesis freelancer is a lot different. At the moment, Thesis may have a less competitive market then a regular WordPress freelancer, but the way you price yourself should be looked at differently.

At first, I had trouble determining how I wanted to charge my clients. Should I do it on an hourly basis, or set a fixed price for themes? At first, I went with the fixed price because that was the type of pricing I was most familiar with. But, I felt like I was earning less than I should have which made me switch to an hourly rate.

Each side has its own benefits and disadvantages to them, and if you haven’t already decided how you want to be paid, check out an amazing post from FreelanceSwitch; Hourly vs. Fixed Pricing.

Evaluating yourself

You need to be brutally honest about the quality of your work. Ask yourself the following questions:

• How much background knowledge of Thesis do I have? (ex: who created it, licensing options, etc)
• How well do I know HTML and CSS in general?
• Do I fully understand how to create a function?
• Do I fully understand the options in Thesis and how to use them?
• Can I keep up with the Thesis community, trends, and multiple clients at a time?
• Is freelancing even for me?

It can be tough to determine your price. But ask yourself those questions — no one else but you knows the answers and no one is listening so be as honest as you can with yourself. To get a good idea what kind of numbers are being thrown around as to what to charge, check out this extremely informative thread on the Thesis forums “What would you charge?” (Thesis owners only).

Other useful information to know

• The Thesis market is huge and only getting bigger. Take it from me, if you do good design work then you will get more work then you can handle. So don’t under price yourself even by $1.
• Don’t over price yourself either. It’s a general rule of thumb, don’t charge too less and don’t charge too much. Evaluate yourself the best you can and charge what you are comfortable charging.
• Take into account that most of your clients will already own Thesis and that means they have spent nearly $100 or more to get it. That may limit their budget, so if you are throwing a ridiculous $150 an hour at them, there’s not a chance in hell you’re getting the job.
• Spend the extra money to upgrade to the Developers option. If not, don’t even try and freelance for Thesis.
• There will be people who don’t own Thesis already, so you need that Developers option to be able to buy the Cient Site Option which will allow you to buy a license for $40 and let the client use Thesis. Always make sure to tag that as an expense in the final bill.

3. Marketing Yourself

Marketing is such an important thing for your business. If you blog, then you know exactly how a good advertising campaign or good sales pitch is for your blog to be successful.

Here are some ways I came up with to marketing your Thesis services:

• Create a portfolio of your works

I do not have a portfolio set up 100% yet, but you should really start working on building one for yourself immediately. Let your work speak for itself, and do your best to get a few clients done and added to your portfolio. A few good pieces of work is all you need!

And please make sure you build your portfolio on Thesis and make it your best work. It just defeats the purpose of targeting a market and not even using the product you are working on for yourself.

• ALWAYS recommend Thesis to clients who contact you for non-Thesis work

On the occasion I get people who want a theme done, but they don’t own Thesis. If you ever run into that situation, try and get your client on Thesis immediately. Your client will thank you, and they may even want to go back to you for more work later since you put them on the best theme in the world.

• DIYthemes is the key

DIYthemes, the site that created Thesis is the key to marketing yourself. The company has a forum with thousands and thousands of Thesis owners go to discuss Thesis, get help for it and more. Use those forums and get involved with the community and assert yourself as a Thesis guru. Use the Classified sections to promote your services and answer other Thesis ads.

DIYthemes is also very active on Twitter. The Thesis community has its own little spot on Twitter. Just use the #thesiswp hashtag whenever you tweet something Thesis related, and you will be bound to get some retweets. Tweet about your latest designs, and you are sure to make a huge impact in the community on Twitter by just using the simple #thesiswp hashtag.

Be on your way

Freelancing is the best job in the world. I am 16 and am freelancing to the point where I can turn it into a career for myself. Just be aware that it can be a hard job to get used to, and there is just so much information I did not write about general freelancing. This post is just about getting you into the feel of being a freelancer on Thesis.

If you guys have any questions about Thesis, my business, or questions about the article — don’t be afraid to ask in the comments section! I hope you enjoyed the longest article on Asnio yet. Take care now.

I have said it again and again in this series, the one thing that seems to be a turn off to potentially new Thesis users is seeing blogs that hardly have customized their theme.

All me to briefly rant about this topic for a few paragraphs before I actually get into the real point of this post.

I can actually understand the perspective of the Thesis critics that bring up the point that “If Thesis is so easy to use, why don’t many Thesis users actually have any customizations on it?” Like, what do you answer to that? It’s true, a large portion of us Thesis users don’t have overly customized designs.

For a variety of reasons, this may have the potential to harm the reputation of Thesis. Think about it, one of the things that is boasted the most about this theme is how easy it is to edit and make “your own.” While a lot of us have definitely done that, there are probably more people who haven’t exactly done so.

But don’t get me wrong

I’m not saying that it’s a bad thing to leave Thesis “uncustomized.” I personally love the interface of it, and that’s why I haven’t made as many edits on this blog (opposed to my other blog). I feel like that is why many of us haven’t edited it as well — because the layout and typography is just that damn fine.

Some of the best Thesis designs out there still have some of the default look on them. It just goes to show you that you don’t have to do much to make this thing look good.

So Let Me See What You Came Up With

So with all of that background info, here’s what I want to do. I will review your Thesis design if you post a link to it in my comments section for nothing. I seem to be in a “free” kind of mood these last few days as I have been giving away plenty for free lately.

If you have made enough customizations to your theme, I will review it for you. If you have only done a few things, I’ll still critique it. Just post your URL in the comments and I’ll get to you.

After 30 days, I am closing comments on this post. I kind of have a feeling this could turn big, so make sure to tell all your Thesis friends before this offer is closed!

Notes

• Any review I do will be at least one paragraph (4–6 sentences) long. If I really like your site and have a lot to say, I’ll amp that number up.
• Sorry all of you non-Thesis weirdos, there’s no critique here for you.
• I am going to review every single blog posted in here, which may take so time. So please don’t rush me to get to your blog, I will when I get to it.
• As always, if you could subscribe to my RSS Feed, that will make me feel appreciated for doing this all for no charge.

Let ‘em rip.

As an avid Thesis user and web designer, I like to always check out what the latest trends in design are, and what’s “hot” and “not” if you will. I decided that it would be interesting to share with you some trends I see in some Thesis themes around the web.

I’m not going to lie, a lot of users that use Thesis keep most of the default look. It’s not a bad thing in my eyes, but it’s always amazing to see some really great customizations of Thesis.

I came up with five different categories of Thesis trends. Each category has at least three sites in them. Enjoy!

Keeping it Simple

Themes that do not edit much, but do not keep the exact Thesis look to them. These designs usually consist of color changes, maybe some formatting differences as well.

Simple customization, easy to look at banner.

Very light customization, cool color choices

Adds a few images here and there, adds a custom logo.

Taking Notice to Great Typography

The following designs put the most effort into displaying beautiful type to the readers in an easy to read way. Thesis is already known as a theme with great typography, but these blogs below really kick it up a notch.

Very gorgeous type for post titles

This layout always has had awesome type interfaces throughout the design.

I think the header says it all

Just look at that giant ampersand!

Image Reliant

The designs below really all have images to support their theme. Such as I do here, a large image is somewhere on these blogs tha reinforce what the blogger is trying to say.

A slideshow is on the right with a variety of different images.

A large screenshot of a video game is posted at the top of each post.

Still trying to figure it out, but the dude has a shovel. Good use of the Multimedia box however!

Rockin’ One Column Layouts

I feel the one column look is the most under utilized look in all of Thesis’s many faces. But I did manage to find some pretty damn nice examples of the one column look.

A great one column look with a unique color choice.

A nice modern looking design.

Last but not least, probably the nicest one column theme on Thesis.

Huge Headers

Thesis themes that have adapted to using a huge header to get the point of their blog across in an easy, noticeable and effective way.

Great type at the top, clearly spreads the point of his blog in his header.

Awesome city background.

Shatterboxx seems to make an appearance in a lot of my Thesis Thursday posts. :p I think the size of this header speaks for itself.

But the Trends Don’t Stop Here

There are so many trends that you can start with Thesis. The design community in Thesis is a little bland at the moment, and all it takes is just one great Thesis designer to come out and create even more trends! What’s stopping you?

I hope this post has inspired you in some way, and I look forward to hitting the 10th Thesis Thursday soon!

Show off your theme

While I’m at it, post links to your Thesis theme! I would love to see some new styles here.

There are so many things that Thesis has to offer you, and one of those things is the ability to get paid. Yes, I am talking about the Thesis Affiliate Program that is available.

You don’t even have to own Thesis to use this affiliate program either, which makes this even better.

But with all of this competition out there to sell the theme, how are you supposed to be the merchant who stands out?

In this article, I am going to share with you a few ideas I use and processes I go through to sell the Thesis theme. I won’t lie and say I have sold a lot of copies, but I do think I have figured out the Thesis community and know of some things that can actually help!

Use Thesis to it’s Max

The one thing I have to say about the majority of Thesis bloggers is that they don’t take much time to really customize it a lot. Just look at my current blog design here (I’m coming up with a much more updated one soon though), and hundreds of other Thesis blogs out there — they still have those default styles. Some barely touch the code!

Sure, the standard Thesis look is fine. It’s simple and has great typography. What more could you want from a theme? But when it comes to trying to sell the Thesis theme without making any customizations, your readers will probably have two questions for you:

• How easy is it to actually use?

Chances are that somewhere in your pitch to sell Thesis, you mention how easy the theme is to use. You should back those words up and do something to prove that Thesis is as easy to use as you say. I can tell you that right now using Thesis out of the box and telling your readers it’s easy to use will not be as effective as you think it will be!

• Why sell it to us if you don’t make the best out of it?

You can literally use Thesis and install it to your blog, and you can go farther to actually customize it. If you can customize Thesis a lot and iron out a lot of the defaults, then you are proving to me that Thesis really can be easy to use. But if you just change a few things around and leave most of it the same, I probably won’t be very convinced or inclined to buy it.

Become a Thesis Guru With Words

If you’re a Thesis user, you probably are sure to let the world know about it. I know I do, both here (obviously with this series), and my other blog.

I think every Thesis user knows something that another one doesn’t. After using Thesis for a while, you just learn all of these cool tricks and little tips. Why not share them with your readers? The Thesis community on Twitter always loves retweeting articles full of great innovative Thesis tricks. It just takes one great article for you and a #thesiswp hash tag on Twitter to earn yourself some credibility.

More Helpful Tricks

Here is quick little list of tips you can use to promote Thesis as well. I won’t go into much detail in them though.

• Edit the link in your footer to your affiliate code. If you have the Personal License, you have to keep it in there anyways. Might want to try and make some money off of it right?
• Always add your affiliate code to any URL you link to DIYthemes on your blog. So if you want to link to the DIYthemes About page, the link you could use would be: http://diythemes.com/thesis/about/?a_aid=alexFraiser.
• Don’t restrain your affiliate link to just your blog, whenever you mention Thesis on another site, why not link it? I see it a ton on Twitter, and I think it’s a great way to sell some copies if you mask the link and have an awesome sales pitch.
• This may be looked down upon, but if you’re blog is new then stay away from using the banners to sell Thesis. I don’t believe any new blog should have banners up on their blog because it can harm the construction of the community. But that’s just my thought. Read more about why I decided banner ads weren’t right for my community at Blogussion.

How Many Thesis Developers Do We Have Here?

I was just wondering, since the Thesis Developers Option allows you to remove the Thesis link, do any Developers actually do it? I myself don’t, but I am curious if any other Developers do the same?

One of thing that sets Thesis apart from other themes is the way you can edit it. You are only required to edit two files to make any customizations throughout your whole website.

Those two files, as you may know, are custom_functions.php and custom.css. The reasoning behind this is 100% for organization purposes. In regular WordPress themes, you have many files to work from. In Thesis, you just have two. It makes so much more sense, and it will ultimately make your site run faster.

The only problem I have with editing only two files is that everything can start to get rather cluttered. You control every element and every piece of the layout in these two files, that if you have a lot of customizations — you’re going to have a mess.

The reason this even occurred to me is because my other blog, Blogussion is a very heavily edited version of Thesis that has a lot of custom CSS, and a lot of different functions. I looked into the files one day and realized that I made a mess!

As I was editing, this idea for a Thesis Thursday post came into my head. I’m going to share with you the things I did to keep my files more organized. You can apply some of these tips to any theme really, but I’m going to be speaking in Thesis throughout this tutorial (yes, I did just refer to Thesis as a language).

“.custom” is ONLY needed on styles you are editing from the default style!

This was a mistake I made at first, and is something I think is being made on some other Thesis powered blogs as well.

If you read the instructions in the default custom.css file, you will see that:

You can use the “custom” class to override *any* CSS declarations contained in the style.css file.

If you skim through things like me, that file probably read to you as “Use .custom to add CSS here.” Just know that you only need to add “.custom” in front of the class you are editing from the default style.css. If you made something up on your themes, you do not need “.custom” in front of it!

Create A Color Code Chart

I actually picked this trick up from Chris Coyier, and I think that any designer, not just a Thesis designer should listen to.

Designing has a lot to do with consistency. In your theme, you don’t want to use a lot of different colors because it can look really weird and tripped out. I find that if you create a color chart of all of the colors you use throughout your coding, you will be in some good shape.

This is what I did at Blogussion, I commented these color codes at the top of the file and whenever I needed a specific color, I just scrolled to the top and got it.

COLOR CHART
RED:#B82626
BLACK:#312F2F
LIGHT GRAY:#CCC
DARK GRAY:#B82626
WHITE:#F1F1F1

You don’t even have to keep it in your CSS, maybe a file you keep somewhere on your desktop or something.

Use Comments!

Using comments in your CSS will help a lot, especially in Thesis. Because you usually don’t write many of your own styles, but edit them, having some comments around are crucial for editing.

You don’t know what most of the names are, and what exactly they control from the name all the time. So by distinguishing where each line of code goes, it will help you a lot.

Limit Comments, Create Functions Table

This is something I’ve done experimentally. The functions file is PHP based, and I am not really knowledgeable with the language. I don’t know how files are organized usually, but this is what I can say I do in my custom_functions file.

A. Create A List of All Function Names

When I name my functions, I copy and paste the name to the top of the file. This is kind of like the style sheet color chart I talked about above. I comment in at the top “Functions Chart” and put all of the function names below it. Since I have a lot of functions, this is ideal for me to do.

B. Remove Any Other Comments

Once I have all of the function names at the top, I don’t need comments to make reading the function name easier. I would normally just add a comment above each function with the name because looking at all of the different PHP code would get me confused.

C. Now Locating Functions Is Easier

If you need to find a function now, you can just open up custom_functions.php, look through your name chart, go to your Search Box (usually CTRL/CMD + F) and paste the function name right in. It will find it, and jump you right down to the function you want to edit.

I hope I explained that well enough for you to understand! You can also apply the same thing with your CSS, I think it’s way easier than remembering the names of the functions and classes if you have a nice little table at the top of the page to remember it all for you.

More Thesis Organization Tips

• Multiple Custom Page Templates
• Thesis Tutorial — Creating New Widget Areas
• Thesis OpenHook Plugin
• Using Firebug for CSS

I hope you have learned a thing or two about keeping your Thesis files nice and clean. A lot of these tips will be useful for you if you do a lot of customizations, but if you don’t have that many, it may not be as handy.

Twitter has proven to be an amazing place for getting Thesis related news, and updates on blogs that use Thesis. I have found a lot of great information by searching with the #thesiwp hash tag, and have figured out who the Thesis pros are on Twitter.

So, with Week 3 of Thesis Thursday here, I present to you 10 of the smartest Thesis users I know of on Twitter. Not all of these people will always tweet about Thesis, but they all have contributed greatly to the Thesis WordPress theme in their own ways.

1. @pearsonified

The genius behind Thesis (hey, I made a rhyme), Chris Pearson is the dude who posts all of the hottest Thesis related news on his Twitter account. Pretty much anything he says on Twitter with that #thesiswp hash tag gets retweeted like 1,000 times, so if there’s a breakthrough somewhere in Thesis, you’ll be damn sure to hear it from him.

2. @KingdomGeek

If you head over to the Thesis Support forums, you will notice one guy who stands out from the rest — and that is Rick Beckman. He probably supports the most people then anyone else at the Support forums, and to top it all off — he created the kick ass Thesis OpenHook plugin which allows you to make any edit you want to your theme without even leaving your Admin Panel.

3. @kristarella

At her blog Kristarella, she uses Thesis in a way not many people have before, and that’s by using the one column look. She does it very well, and it looks great. She has some outstandingly awesome tutorials on her blog that I use every time I code a Thesis theme, and is just insanely useful. She posts tips on Twitter, and retweets useful Thesis information.

4. @doublemule

Only tweets a little, but Double Mule is a great blog with a lot of great Thesis stuff on it. But, their blog is something not to be missed by any Thesis user. They have a great, huge SEO tutorial, a list of who they consider to be “Thesis Pros,” and a lot more informative posts about Thesis at their blog.

5. @jamievaron

Jamie Varon has created some excellent Thesis designs before, and has a great Thesis theme related service in the works. She is definitely talented at what she does with her Thesis themes, and I (and many others I’m sure) can’t wait to see what she has to come up with next.

6. @sugarrae

Rae Hoffman’s blog was probably the first customized Thesis I have ever seen. She has a really nice looking customization, and the greatest part about it is that she posts a ton of tutorials on how to pimp out a version of Thesis. She tweets about Internet Marketing and has conversations with her followers a lot, but she does throw out some Thesis stuff here and there.

7. @HowToMakeMyBlog

Marko Saric has been such an inspiration for me. I found his blog, HowToMakeMyBlog, and I knew two things. One, I wanted to get into the “Blogging about blog” niche, and two — I wanted Thesis. Marko writes some great Thesis tutorials on his blog, and whenever he launches one off, it becomes a huge hit.

8. @thesishacker

The blog Thesis Hacker was probably the first Thesis tips blog I read. It helped me so much, and I recommend any new Thesis user who is lost to read this blog for some basic, but handy tutorials. Although this Twitter account is small, it’s used as a feed to post the latest tutorials from the Thesis Hacker blog, which can surely help you out if you ever need a quick tip or two.

His customizations are used on many Thesis blogs, making him a strong influence in the Thesis design community. Definitely a great guy to follow on Twitter for some extra links to useful articles.

9. @jermainemaree

One of the “WPBandits,” and also a Double Mule Certified Thesis Designer, Jermaine knows how to code some pretty sweet looking Thesis themes. He doesn’t work alone at WPBandit, his partner Alex Agnarson does some amazing stuff. I love this quote from the Double Mule article, it shows how great their WPBandit service is:

Alex and Jermaine focus on quality, limiting the number of clients worked with to ensure that each customer receives an amazing website. Alex loves to create designs that make Jermaine say, “how am I suppose to code this?” — which typically results in a site that exceeds the client’s expectations and makes other Thesis developers say… how did they code that?

10. @mitchcooper

Mitch Cooper has done some truly kick ass Thesis design work. He is the guy behind the DIYNinjas and has designed some of the best Thesis sites around.

So there we have it. The third Thesis Thursday (a little late). 10 great Thesis geniuses on Twitter. Hope you enjoyed it, and hope you stick around for some more posts.

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