by Jeremy on February 4, 2010
I routinely use two separate Google accounts. One for personal use, and one for business. This was a huge pain until just recently when I discovered a great way to switch from one to the other. I now use a Greasemonkey script called “Google Account Multi-Login.”
This script basically replaces the “Sign Out” link on Google pages with a pull-down menu of your accounts. To change to a different account, you simply click the menu and select the account you’d like to switch to. A few seconds later your new page is loaded, and you’re in your other account. Simple as that! Passwords are stored, and there are basic options to add or remove accounts.
If it’s purely Gmail accounts you’re concerned about, there may be a second option for you. There’s a Firefox Add-on called Gmail Manager that lets you manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. It also allows you to view account details – including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
I wasn’t as impressed with the Gmail Manager, but it mostly depends on your individual needs. If you have more than one Google account, I’d highly recommend trying out the Google Account Multi-Login.
Related Links:
Lifehacker Article
Gmail Manager Article
Multi Login Home Page
Gmail Manager Addon
by Jeremy on January 29, 2010
I’ve been converting most of my websites over to Thesis the last couple of months. There are a few little tweaks I’ve made along the way. I shared a few Thesis tweaks a while ago, I now I wanted to share some more of them.
Remove “Comments Closed”
You can turn off comments for individual pages or posts, but it still leaves the annoying “Comments are closed on this entry” at the bottom of the page. The following bit of code will remove that.
.custom .comments_closed p { display: none; }
There is also an option within the Thesis Options menu to disable comments on all pages. I think this will remove the line for any pages, as well.
Remove the “Wordpress Admin” link from footer.
This isn’t a hook or CSS thing, it’s actually something you can do from your Admin Panel.
Go to These Options – Display Options – Administration – Show Admin Link in Footer.
Add Chitika After Posts
Most people have heard of AdSense, but not everybody has heard of Chitika. Chitika is similar to AdSense, but it only appears when someone has used a search engine to find your site.
Basically, Chitika ads are invisible to your regular visitors, but are a great way to make money from Search visitors who are likely to bounce anyway. Chitika Ads may not be huge earners, but you can use them along side AdSense for a little extra $. Anyways, if you wanted to add them at the end of blog posts or pages, here’s the code to add to your custom_functions.php file.
/* Add Chitika */
function add_chitika () {
?>
<div align=”center”>ADD CHITIKA CODE HERE</div>
<?php
}
add_action(‘thesis_hook_after_post’, ‘add_chitika’);
Replacing Unordered List Bullet
I’m sure there are many ways to do this, but this is how I did it. You may not need the second line of code to pad the left side of the li elements, but I left it as a reference. Replace the URL with a link to your image file.
div#content ul { list-style-image:url(‘/_images/icons/bullet-white.gif’); list-style-position:outside; list-style-type:none; margin-left: 12px; padding:0 0 0 10px; }
div#content ul li {padding-left: 2px;}
Helpful Thesis Resources
http://myblog2day.com/60-thesis-themes-customization-tutorials.php
http://webstudio13.com/2009/10/19/71-best-tutorials-for-thesis-wordpress-theme-users/
http://mattflies.com/tech/100-resources-for-thesis-wordpress-theme-users/
by Jeremy on January 21, 2010
One thing I don’t love about the Thesis Theme for Wordpress is the page headlines. Usually when creating static pages, I’d rather not have the page headings appear ( i.e. – Home, Contact, etc. ). They’re not always bad, but the “Home” one always annoys me, and is kind of a giveaway that you’re using Wordpress as a CMS.
You don’t actually want to REMOVE the page headings, as they are actually pretty important from an SEO perspective, but there’s a great bit of CSS that will hide them from visual display. The h1 or h2 headlines still appear in your code, the headline is just not visible to people who visit your website.
Add the following code to your Thesis custom.css file.
.custom .headline_area { position:absolute; top:-1500px; left:-1500px; }
But there’s a catch. Removing the “headline_area” will remove the headline from every page on your site, including your blog posts. Since the blog headlines are important for site navigation, I ended up adding back in a bit of code that brings them back. I’m sure there are several ways to isolate the Blog headlines, but I used the “hfeed” class, since it is used for blog posts, but not regular pages. The following bit of code works to
.custom .hfeed .headline_area { left:0; position:relative; top:0; }
What if you only wanted to remove the headline area from one or two pages? This is easy enough to do, too. In this case, you just specify the class for the page you’re working with. In this case, my home page had an ID of “post-6″. Just replace “post-6″ with the ID of your specific page.
.custom #post-6 .headline_area { position:absolute; top:-1500px; left:-1500px; }
I don’t claim to be a master of CSS, by any means, but this code worked for me. This was all trial and error as I was working on a Cake website. Feel free to check it out to see these tweaks in action.
