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In last week Thesis Theme tutorial, I’ve shown you how to change background color. In today tutorial, I’m going to extend the concept and show you how to add custom background image.

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Customizing background is one of the effective way to change the feel of your theme.

Last week, one of the readers, Azzam, asked how to change background color in Thesis Theme. Although it is not difficult, but I think it is better to create a tutorial to explain the idea of changing background color in Thesis Theme.

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Customizing Thesis Theme 404 Error Page

by Bey Luen on February 10, 2009

in WordPress

Customize Thesis Theme 404 Error Page

Custom 404 error page is your only chance to turn a lost visitor into a reader of your blog. Thesis Theme has a special function to handle 404 error page. It’s a semi-custom page as it does keep with your theme and design, but it only show “You 404′d it. Gnarly, dude.” to your visitors. You may want to change the wording a little bit to show your own personality and suitable for your brand image.
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Check Security Level With WordPress Scanner

by Bey Luen on February 5, 2009

in Security, WordPress

Since WordPress is the most popular blogging platform in the world, blogs that are powered by WordPress platform have increasingly received more attacks from hackers and automated scripts. As a blog owner, we’ve the responsibility to ensure that the risk of being attack is at the lowest.

David Kierznowski from BlogSecurity has recently released the next generation of WordPress Scanner. The scanner is completed re-written in PHP and is massively improved for WordPress vulnerability check compared to previous version. WordPress Scanner is a free online tool that blog administrators can use to provide a measure of their WordPress security level. Currently it is a BETA software and is continually being developed.
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Attract Readers Coming Back With Upcoming Posts

February 4, 2009

I always think about how to increase number loyalty readers and how to convert one-time visitors into subscribers. In this post, I’d like to review Upcoming Posts which will create a widget which shows all of your scheduled posts to notice your readers for coming back some time in the future.
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How To Add Logo In Thesis Theme Header

February 3, 2009

Chris Pearson has just released a new version of Thesis Theme, there are a few new and excited features being added. But the fundamental is still the same. The theme has been designed in such a way that it is very flexible and easy in customization.
In this post, I’m going to show you how to [...]

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12 Most Popular WordPress Comment Plugins

February 2, 2009

Comment is a good communication tool between blog authors and visitors. Here is the list of 12 most popular WordPress comment plugins.

Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Akismet Plugin Homepage
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How To Schedule A Future WordPress Post

February 1, 2009

I know most of you will say this is very easy. But inexperience bloggers are having problem to schedule a future post and I did face the same problem in my early blogging day. In this blog post, I’m going to explain this as easy as possible with a couple of screenshots.
Note: WordPress version 2.7 [...]

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Connect With Audience Via Twitter Badge WordPress Plugin

January 31, 2009

Since I’m a Twitter user and I would like to display Twitter badge in my blog, so I’ve written a WordPress plugin to easily display your Twitter badge in your WordPress sidebar as a widget.
The plugin is called TwiBadge and you can check out the plugin homepage here for details. If you’re interested, click on [...]

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WordPress Post Missed Schedule

January 30, 2009

Since WordPress released version 2.7, I’ve seen many people could not get the scheduling function working properly. You could still schedule a post but the future post simply miss the time when the scheduled time come. What you could see in the Wordpress dashboard is “Missed Schedule”. I know, this is very frustrating.

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