Freelance Web Design, Thesis Skins, and Wordpress & Thesis Design

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My name is Matt Hodder and I’m a freelance web designer working out of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Using Wordpress and the Thesis Theme, I design and implement sites that are clean, usable, and eye-pleasing.
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Events Calendar Pro for Thesis

by Matt Hodder on August 4, 2010

Throughout my time with WordPress, I have not found a good calendar/events plugin, but Events Calendar Pro (available here) changes that. It’s been the only solution I’ve found that covered everything you’d expect in a full calendar and events list. In the plugin creator’s own words: The Events Calendar Premium plugin for WordPress enables you to [...]

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New Thesis Skins

by Matt Hodder on July 6, 2010

I thought I’d keep everyone updated here about my latest Thesis skins, as that’s what most people end up here for anyways. So read on about my latest skins and a sweet coupon code! ThesisFolio ThesisFolio is my latest skin and I have to say I’m pretty proud of it. The new skin comes standard with [...]

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Enable WordPress 3.0 Features for the Thesis Theme

by Matt Hodder on June 21, 2010

If you haven’t heard, Wordpress 3.0 dropped the other day with a bunch of new features. Although there’s no news on a Thesis update, Thesis 1.7 seems to work fine with WordPress 3.0 but unfortunately doesn’t cash in on any of the new features. I’ve decided to tackle a few of those features to make them available right [...]

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Change Your Thesis Site to a Fluid Layout

by Matt Hodder on June 10, 2010

Thesis comes packed with plenty of configuration options, but I’m going to show you how to create a fluid layout for your site by only editing custom.css. Not sure what a fluid layout even is? Basically it’s just means the site width is determined by the size of the users browser window. If you resize, [...]

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Gmail Tip – Easily Store Affiliate Links

by Matt Hodder on February 18, 2010

If you’re anything like me you get quite a few different emails each and every day. I’ve noticed a lot of people who had emailed me would, either initially or further down the road, be looking for recommendations on things like hosting or WordPress themes. I’d either give them a direct link or have to take the time to search [...]

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Thesis Starter PSD and Custom Files

by Matt Hodder on February 5, 2010

I’m still kicking it in the Thesis world. For those of you who still don’t know what Thesis is, check it out here. Anyways, as I’m sure most of you do know, Thesis is a leading WordPress framework that provides SEO, stability, and plenty of ways to customize your site. The customization scene has been [...]

Add Built-in Widgets to Thesis / WordPress Theme

November 20, 2009

Almost anything that can be done with a normal theme can, in almost the same way, be done with Thesis. The main custom functions file (custom_functions.php) is just an extension of Functions.php, the main function file for WordPress themes. So is it possible to add built in widgets with a Thesis skin or customization? Of [...]

Add an options menu to the WordPress dashboard for a Thesis Skin

May 29, 2009

Lately I’ve been venturing into the Thesis community, coming across loads of great people and excellent resources. Although publicly released skins (both paid and free) seem to be taking off only as of lately, I’ve had a chance to try out a few free Thesis skins. Something I haven’t seen a Thesis skin tap into, [...]

Remove all borders in Thesis 1.5

May 27, 2009

Re-working the Thesis framework to your own liking? Well, if your doing a huge overhaul, you might want to get rid of the separator lines the default styling has included. This includes the sidebar lines, the teaser box lines, the comment lines.etc. To get rid of these lines, while editing the css (you should be [...]

New look via Thesis

May 21, 2009

Yep, I’m using Thesis. For the last couple of weeks I have been working with the latest Thesis framework (and WordPress of course) to create a variety of different Thesis “skins.” These skins will be released completely free sometime next month. The skin I currently have enabled is one of the simpler, toned down skins [...]

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