in Thesis Thursday · May 14, 2009

10 of the Greatest Thesis Minds you should follow on Twitter

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

Chris PearsonThe 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

rick_beckman 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

KristarellaAt 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

twitter-doublemuleOnly 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 varonJamie 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 SaricMarko 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

Jermaine MareeOne 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.

Any images used were found on the respec­tive own­ers Twit­ter page.

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1 Greg May 15, 2009 at 12:02 AM

Great list! I’m glad I fol­low most of them, maybe it will rub off :)

GO JAMIE! Love ya!

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2 Alex May 15, 2009 at 10:56 PM

Heh, I know it has for me. :p

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3 Max Bourne May 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM

I really like the rounded cor­ners you do on your media boxes. Care to explain how you did them?

Max

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4 Alex May 15, 2009 at 10:57 PM

That sounds like a good topic for next week.

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5 Simon | Teenius May 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM

Awe­some list there Alex. I’ve started fol­low­ing a few of them :)

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6 Brian May 15, 2009 at 11:38 AM

Just what I needed. Just pur­chased the theme and have started to delve into it’s potential.

I know how I want my lay­out to be, just need to fig­ure out how to use the hooks to get there (hope­fully I can).…

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7 Alex May 15, 2009 at 10:58 PM

Con­grats on buy­ing the theme. It rocks, doesn’t it? :D

It may take a lit­tle at first to totally wrap your head around the Hooks, but once you get it, you will never look back.

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8 Ivete May 15, 2009 at 11:51 AM

Thank you for this post! I’m fol­low­ing and read­ing all of them now .. . and you!

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9 Marko Saric May 15, 2009 at 12:48 PM

Thanks for includ­ing me in the list with the big The­sis pros Alex… I am glad my blog inspired you and I appre­ci­ate your support!

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10 Alex May 15, 2009 at 10:59 PM

Thanks for stop­ping by Marko, you deserve the spot up there. :)

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11 John Sexton May 15, 2009 at 10:10 PM

Hey Alex, nice list. It’s great to see the The­sis com­mu­nity growing.

I do have a small cor­rec­tion for you. The Fuse­Box The­atre site is actu­ally my work. Mitch Cooper and I work together on DIYninjas.com. Mitch has lots of great sites to his credit, including:

http://harcourtsluxury.co.nz/ and
http://australs2010.com/
as well as http://www.diyninjas.com itself.

Some of my The­sis work includes:

http://www.fuseboxtheatre.com
http://www.curiousbusiness.com
http://www.tiplet.com

and just recently launched:

http://www.wellingtonradiologygroup.com
http://www.jcdfitness.com

I would appre­ci­ate a cor­rec­tion in the arti­cle, if you don’t mind. I’d like for Mitch to get credit for his sites, of course. But Fuse­BoxThe­atre is sort of my flag­ship piece, so I’d like to get credit for that.

My twit­ter is @john_sexton, in case any­one would like to fol­low my updates as well.

Thanks!

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12 Alex May 15, 2009 at 10:54 PM

Ah, sorry John. I didn’t know you worked at DIYN­in­jas with him, I just thought that was all Mitch.

Yeah, I’ll def­i­nitely fix that up for you because that’s a huge mis­take on my part. You shouldn’t miss out on any of the recog­ni­tion you get with a theme like that. Again, sorry!

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13 John Sexton May 15, 2009 at 11:33 PM

Thanks, Alex. I appre­ci­ate it!

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14 JaneRadriges June 13, 2009 at 3:58 PM

Great post! I’ll sub­scribe right now wth my fee­dreader software!

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