If you’re anything like me, and you’ve been using the Thesis theme for WordPress for a while, you’re probably eager for the release of Thesis 2.0 and all the life-shattering improvements it will bring. Ok. Maybe not life-shattering. But if I know anything at all about Chris Pearson and the DIY Themes team, I know those upcoming improvements will be ahead of the WordPress development curve.
For now, go ahead and update your Thesis-based website to 1.8.4 to take advantage of a few new changes:
- Better support for WordPress multisite
- Better performance in the Thesis custom file editor
- Overall bug fixes based on requests and feedback from the Thesis community
- The release of child theme and skin starter templates for designers and developers
You can read about the most recent changes at the DIY Themes blog.
One item of note is the fact that DIY Themes plans to discontinue support for the Thesis-based navigation menu in 2.0.
This is probably relevant only to those who are still using much earlier versions of Thesis, as most users switched to the much easier to manage WordPress menu system when support for it was added a few versions ago. Honestly though, the built-in WordPress menu management options are much more robust than the Thesis nav system ever was, so if you haven’t already switched, now would be a good time to do that.
Disclosure: Hibiscus Creative is an official Thesis designer, and we work almost exclusively with it. All links to Thesis above are affiliate links.
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I'm Jennae Petersen, the founder and lead designer of Hibiscus Creative, and I write about what I know about: Design. I also love ice cream, reggae music, singing, dancing, and a number of other things that will never make me famous. I blog about eco-friendly decorating at Green Your Decor and all things eco-friendly and beautiful at Green & Gorgeous.
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It’s a very attractive, very fxelible theme. It will, however, cost you some money: $87, last I heard. (Which is not much more than I spent on Movable Type before switching to WordPress, come to think of it.) There is an SEO plugin for WP which is supposed to be able to do the optimization on any theme whatsoever, but I haven’t tried it.
One of my friend who is an SEO expert (Chris X consultant) has just come out with her own theme. She has been using Thesis theme too but that does not satisfy her completely as she needs to make constant modification to the thesis theme to suit her needs. So she came out with a new theme: she called it ThemeMX. It is having a special offer now (newly launched).