How to Customize Thesis Theme from WordPress Dashboard

Simple guide that helps to customize thesis theme directly from WordPress dashboard. You can edit custom.css and custom_functions.php file using Custom file editor option in Theme Theme menu.

Thesis is one of the mostly used WordPress theme and is popular for its inbuilt options panel. Thesis can be extensively customized and any sort of layout can be obtained.

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Customize Thesis Theme from WordPress Dashboard

We have already published some high quality tutorials on thesis customization. This article will help you learn how to implement those tutorials in your thesis theme.

• Login to WordPress Dashboard and go to “Thesis Theme”.
• In Thesis Theme menu you need to open “Custom File Editor”. To make this custom file editor work, you need to rename custom-sample to custom folder.
• Now, a drop-down menu with two files will be available.

Add CSS to Custom.css File

• All the CSS code should be added in custom.css file.

• Click on “Save Button” and the file will be updated.

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Add PHP and HTML to Custom Functions File

• Functions and HTML code should be added in custom_functions.php file.

• Click on “Save Button” and the file will be updated.

Problems of Editing Thesis Theme from Dashboard

Coming to the cons of using this method, sometimes the code you are using in custom_functions.php will not be perfect and results in breaking up your theme. If this happens your site or blog will be down till the issue is resolved through FTP.

Hence, only follow genuine and trustworthy tutorials. If you are looking for a tip to overcome this issue, take a look at your code and check whether every element is properly closed or not.

Hope this article will hep you to Customize Thesis Theme from WordPress Dashboard. If you need any help, drop a comment here and we will be more glad to help you.