Thesis Two: The missing design and template manager for WordPress
For the very first time, you can control every last detail of your site and design with three revolutionary features you won’t find in any other WordPress theme:
Boxes
Point and click add-on
functionality without the hassle
of writing your own code
Skins
Haul and drop your way to a
customized design or use one of
our finely-tuned masterpieces
Site Devices
Essential devices for SEO
(like markup Schema),
site branding, and more!
Skins
The easiest way to manage (and tweak)
your WordPress designs…
If you want a beautiful web design that you can customize from the convenience of your WordPress dashboard, Thesis Skins are the response you’ve been looking for.
With built-in implements like a patent-pending color scheme picker and golden ratio typography controls, Thesis Skins are designed to make your website more effective while letting your creativity shine.
The Classic Responsive Skin will make your site look excellent on any device.
See all of our Skins in activity on our demo site!
Every copy of Thesis comes with the Classic Responsive Skin, which has been meticulously optimized for spectacle, search engines, mobile devices, and people just like you.
That’s right—after installing Thesis, you’ll have a responsive website that works seamlessly on mobile devices everywhere. And we’re just getting embarked…Read on!
Total WordPress template control (no code required!)
There’s a dirty little secret other theme companies don’t want you to know:
With the traditional WordPress theme and child theme architecture, the only way to edit templates is to get your forearms messy with code.
Any template WordPress can understand can be created and customized using [Thesis’] fresh streamilined haul and drop interface…This is all possible without writing a single line of PHP or HTML.
And if you want to add a custom-built template? Leave behind it—you better be very convenient with WordPress, an FTP client, a text editor, and of course, code.
If that strikes you as overkill or if you find that intimidating, you’re not alone.
Basically, if you want to add or switch anything outside of the default state of other WordPress themes or child themes, you’re going to need to code…or else hire someone to code for you.
But it doesn’t have to be like this! Here’s the deal:
The traditional WordPress theme and child theme architecture is both limited and outdated. In order to have total template control without messing with code, you need a fresh architecture.
Thesis two is that architecture.
Thesis blasts through the limitations of the old WordPress template system and brings you total template control with our patent-pending visual template editor.
The Thesis Skin Editor gives you visual, point-and-click control over your templates.
This means that no matter which Skin you use, you can control all of your templates—and everything on them—with Thesis’ visual template editor.
Thesis Two.1 is joy! The idea of placing elements wherever I want in templates is too effortless.
You don’t have to hire a developer, and better—you don’t have to wait another minute to make that switch to your website. With Thesis, you can pop open the template editor and BOOM—you can make it happen right now.
(And hey, if you’re a xxx developer like me and still want to add your own code, you can do that, too. In fact, with the Thesis API, you can do just about anything.)
Brainy design controls = better customizations
Let’s face it: No matter which WordPress theme you use, sooner or later, you’re going to want to customize your design for your specific needs.
See how effortless it is to edit and customize your Skin!
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Slew of themes suggest design options (a trend Thesis began in 2008), but they don’t suggest any clever direction when it comes to those options.
For example, if you’ve ever used a color picker before, you might have felt disappointed by the haphazard nature of selecting a single color out of millions of possibilities.
I’ll proceed to send my customers your way, because I believe in what you’re doing and why you do it.
And what about typography? If you’ve ever messed with font options before, you may have noticed that you can’t switch any single aspect of typography and hope that your design will improve.
This is because even a puny typographical tweak may necessitate adjustments to many aspects of your design!
And this matters, too, because your visitors are subconsciously aware of the order—or disorder—your typography is communicating to them.
When your aim is running a beautiful, successful website, every pixel matters—and poorly-implemented design options simply aren’t going to cut it.
Lightly customize your design with Thesis’ patent-pending color scheme picker.
That’s why Thesis two is chock-full of clever design options that go the extra mile to ensure that every switch you make is a good one.
Our fresh, patent-pending color scheme picker gives you infinite customization capability in an effortless, point-and-click interface. With Thesis, you can create mathematically-precise color schemes in seconds.
Let Thesis creator Chris Pearson take you on a tour of the Skin design options.
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And if you switch your font or font size, Thesis will adjust your entire layout to ensure maximum readability and convenience for your site’s visitors. (You read that right—Thesis is now tuning typography for individual FONTS! No other software on the planet can do this.)
The bottom line? Thesis two is like your own private designer—an innovative fresh system that helps turn your customization fantasies into a pixel-perfect reality.
Custom-made templates tailored to your WordPress installation
With other themes, “custom-made” is marketing speak for “you’re gonna need code for this.”
Thesis, however, respects the meaning of the word “custom-built” and thoughtfully scans your WordPress installation to incorporate anything you might have added to it.
Thesis automatically creates templates based on your WordPress settings. You can also create custom-made templates on the fly…without code!
If Thesis detects custom-made post types or custom-built taxonomies, it will create special templates for each of these items in your Skin (and it doesn’t matter which Skin you’re using!).
No matter what kind of site you’re running on WordPress, Thesis will adapt to your environment and give you a code-free way to control it.
I love the template support for custom-built post types. That’s been a superb help for a elaborate site I am working on.
Also, if you want to create your own custom-made templates on the fly, you can do it from the convenience of the visual template editor—no FTP clients, text editors, or other technical things required.
(Earnestly, after using Thesis for a little while, you’ll be amazed that we ever used complicated devices like that for something so elementary!)
Boxes
Boxes are like apps for your Thesis website
Let’s say you want an email signup form in your sidebar. Or maybe you want some social sharing widgets below your headline. Or maybe you want “popular posts” in your sidebar.
Before Thesis Two, the ONLY way you could get the functionality you want, where you want, was either by hiring a developer, installing yet another potentially inefficient plugin, or—heaven forbid—code it yourself.
Drop fresh functionality into your web design—no code necessary
Now you can find a Thesis Box that has the functionality you want, and simply haul and drop it into your template in the patent-pending visual template editor…
With Thesis, you can lightly add any kind of functionality to your site.
What’s even better is this: You can make Thesis Boxes display up exactly where you want—and configure them— without ever editing a file or eyeing a line of code.
(It’s not that we think code is bad; we just think you’ll agree that the visual template editor offers a more efficient, better-organized way to do the stuff you need to do with your website!)
Want a Box on your category template? No problem.
Want a Box on JUST your home page? Drop it right where you want it.
Spent forty eight hours with Thesis Two.1. The verdict? “It’ll speed up the development by ten folds.” You’ve plumbed it, Chris.
This stuff used to require ugly, conditional code. Now it’s only a duo of clicks away.
The bottom line? Thesis Boxes give you the functionality you want—completely integrated with WordPress—precisely where you want it.
Boxes will help you “power up” your Thesis website
Want to connect your AWeber email newsletter account to Thesis? There’s a Box for that.
If you want to do something that Thesis doesn’t do by default, there’s a good chance we’ve built a Box for it.
I love Thesis. It vapid out works.
And if we haven’t built a Box for it, there’s an even better chance that somebody else already has (because Boxes are effortless to build, and the Thesis community loves ’em!).
Here’s a sample of Boxes that are presently available for free to Thesis Professional license holders:
- AWeber — drop customizable Aweber forms in your templates
- MailChimp — drop customizable MailChimp forms in your templates
- Twitter — Tweet button and Twitter card functionality
- Facebook Like — total open graph capabilities
- Google +1 — Google +1 button
- Google Analytics Experiments — automatic integration!
- Google Tag Manager — automatic integration!
- LinkedIn Share — share button
- Pinterest Pin It! — Pin It! button
- Thesis Developer Contraptions — let out advanced Thesis functionality
Site Instruments
Here’s why Thesis two is the ideal theme for ranking higher in search engines
Do you want your WordPress blog to rank higher in search engines? A foolish question, I know… Who doesn’t?
In order to give your site the best chance to rank well, you need to concentrate on both spectacle and optimization.
Thanks to its remarkably efficient fresh architecture, Thesis two offers spectacle capabilities that no other theme can match. Not only does Thesis two serve streamlined, search engine optimized HTML5, but it also minimizes HTTP requests, regardless of the Skin you’re using!
(That’s geek-speak for “your site fountains quicker because it uses fewer resources.” Search engines LOVE this kind of thing.)
I look forward to building some incredible websites for local Santa Barbara business owners with Thesis Two.1.
And with “one click effortless” contraptions for extra optimization, Thesis two has everything you need to establish an authoritative website and predominate the search engines.
Let’s look at some of these implements and see how you can use them to enhance your site instantly.
Separate your site from the pack with Markup Schema
Markup schema is part of the fresh standard used by search engines to understand content on the web.
Right now, major search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! are looking for this code on your site so they can improve their search results.
The implications here are serious: If your site doesn’t leverage markup schema, it’s very likely going to lose rankings to another site that does.
But if you’ve got Thesis, you’re going to be the one taking those rankings.
Thanks to a lightweight HTML structure that’s enriched with markup schema, Thesis can help you give search engines precisely what they want.
And unlike other themes, Thesis’ markup schema is built for the future. The list of potential markup schema is enormous and ever-growing, so a good system must be able to account for this inescapable growth and switch.
Wow. It’s more intuitive, stout, and simpler to use! This is genius work right here; thank you guys so so much!
We built Thesis Two’s markup schema system on this principle. With Thesis, Skins can not only tap into the built-in markup schema for things like articles, recipes, and reviews, but they can also add any other valid markup schema as well!
The bottom line? No matter which type of markup schema you need for your site, you can do it with Thesis.
Improve your SEO right now: Get your site verified by Google and Bing
When you’re looking to rank higher in search engines, all the best search engine optimization experts will tell you to get your site listed in both Google and Bing’s webmaster devices.
Before Thesis Two, if you wished to verify your site, you’d have to add some custom-built code into your <head> …but that just gave most people a headache.
Earnestly, once I commenced I was amazed at how effortless [Thesis] was to use.
With Thesis Two, we give you a ordinary option field where you can paste your verification code without ever opening up a file or thinking about code.
Critical instruments. Ordinary interface. No nonsense. Thesis two makes the harsh stuff effortless for you.
Ultimately! Control your four hundred four page content…without code
Despite the fact that your four hundred four page is a fundamental and significant part of your site, you can’t control its content with a typical WordPress installation.
Thesis is a game-changer. Again. Loving it!
But Thesis two isn’t your typical WordPress theme—it has a elementary option that lets you select any WordPress page to serve as your four hundred four page content.
With Thesis Two’s mission-critical site instruments and “one click effortless” controls, you can customize—and optimize—every last detail of your site.