The World’s Most User-​​Friendly WordPress Theme Just Got Friendlier

I am proud to announce the release of ver­sion 1.2 of the incom­pa­ra­ble WordPress theme Thesis!

Version 1.2 has been dubbed by Chris the “user-​​friendly ver­sion.” I pre­fer to think of it as Thesis 1.2, the “KingdomGeek got to dip his fin­ger into the code” edition.

In addi­tion to my work sup­port­ing Thesis, Chris has allowed me to grow in my role by con­tribut­ing cus­tom code to the core itself. I won’t point out which things I did — most of them are minor and may only be appre­ci­ated by me, actu­ally — but I am very pleased to announce that 1.2 resolves issues with using cus­tom images in the mul­ti­me­dia box on Dreamhost and other hosts which limit upon which images getimagesize() works.

What’s new in 1.2?

I wrote this announce­ment based on 2 or 3 day old code. In that brief time, sev­eral fea­tures sneaked into the release: cus­tomize avatar size, option­ally dis­play com­ment num­ber, abil­ity to spec­ify links on rota­tor images, abil­ity to make author names link to author archives, abil­ity to add “nofol­low” to the afore­men­tioned author archive links, and likely sev­eral more I may have missed!

In no par­tic­u­lar order, here are some of the new fea­tures! Many of these were added as a direct result of feed­back from users on the sup­port forums, and I can attest that these new fea­tures will ful­fill a lot of user desire.

Note that all of these fea­tures are han­dled via Thesis’ con­trol panel — no code mon­ger­ing required!

• Ability to show Comments # in post/​page bylines.
• Ability to show post categories.
• Ability to dis­able com­ments on all pages — com­ments on pages are no longer decided by using spe­cific tem­plate files!
• Optional older/​newer post nav­i­ga­tion on sin­gle post views.
• Control over whether archive views show post titles, post con­tents, or post excerpts.
• Ability to add a “nofol­low” attribute not only to tag links but also to tag archives.
• Ability to show edit links on posts and com­ments (for site admins, not for commenters).
• Ability to show tags on indi­vid­ual pages or on index/​archive pages or both.
• Ability to show an admin link in the footer of your page all the time, only for logged in users, or never.

In addi­tion to all those new options, there is a new cus­tom field which you can use to set cus­tom descrip­tions on posts and pages, which will be out­put in the meta sec­tion of your header!

There are numer­ous other changes under the hood — con­sol­i­da­tion of cer­tain theme con­tent, bet­ter search engine opti­miza­tion, and more!

What are you wait­ing for? Get it!

Disclosure: Links to Thesis and DIYthemes in this post are affil­i­ate links; I also work for DIYthemes.