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.

{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

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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15 Nikky @ NLP Training June 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM

Great list of successful people who can share their life changing experiences to us. We, especially me, need to follow them on twitter cause it’s worth doing so.
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