Comments on: Thesis Theme for Wordpress Review

By: Joanne of Open Mind Required

Joanne of Open Mind Required — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:30:11 +0000

Thanks for explaining how this theme works, Michael. I’ve been using Solostream and liked the look for a long time, but now it’s just too dark and too difficult to change. I’ve been studying CSS so I started tinkering with my blog files, and I’ve just made a mess.

An update was released to my theme, and I didn’t update because I was afraid I would lose all customization.

And I want to create a second blog. How would I incorporate all the changes I made to it? After spending hours and hours turning my beautiful blog into a hideous thing and knowing I still had a lot of work to do, I started looking around and found Thesis. I think it’s just want I need. Better spend the money than invest so much time. I’m no designer! Now to find the money.

By: Link Building SEO

Link Building SEO — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:59:59 +0000

As a novice programmer this information is extremely useful and will save me a lot of time as you stated, thank you for this review!!

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:00:36 +0000

@gab yes the “layering” and forward compatibility really appealed to me. Not sure about the PSD2HTML lets ask

By: Gab Goldenberg

Gab Goldenberg — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:52:11 +0000

I found this review helpful because, despite Rae’s best efforts, I didn’t get why Thesis was such a big deal. Putting all the custom code into only 2 files is a genius innovation. Keeping custom stuff working with new versions of WP is a PITA.

Next question: Once I get graphics for a redesign, who do I go to (that is reliable and timely) to have them sliced up into a thesis theme? I’m looking for a PSD2HTML equivalent. Thoughts?

By: Michael Gray

Michael Gray — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:09:32 +0000

it’s a wp-cache issue there is a lag time between comments posted, comments approved and comments appearing. Not censoring comments. the post from user chris stands as is

By: Aaron Pratt

Aaron Pratt — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:28:40 +0000

Michael – Why are you not allowing the people who do not agree that Thesis is all that the right to post comments? I am getting emails of a comment conversation different than what is appearing outside of your domains admin. panel.

By: Mike Papageorge

Mike Papageorge — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:18:10 +0000

I see this theme everywhere these days. I finally click thru one of the articles deep in your RSS feed and bam, not only your site but your latest post involves Thesis. I have to say from a readers point of view the sites are always very nice to look at. I hope the back end is just as pleasant…

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:32:40 +0000

I use it now and recommend it to everyone. I love it.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:12:32 +0000

You say this isnt a sponsored post, but you are trying to sell thesis themes. Therefore no objectivity. Therefore worthless review. Lets call a spade a spade.

By: John Maar

John Maar — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:25:12 +0000

It took me awhile to find, because it’s buried a bit on diythemes.com (Thesis home site), but there’s a $40 fee to use Thesis on a client site (fee is per site), even if you have the Developer’s License (you can use Thesis on as many of YOUR sites as you’d like).