I’m getting a little over obsessed with the Thesis Theme. So much so that I have even modded this theme here, which is the Neoclassical Theme to look nearly like the Thesis.
Lately I have been reading up a little bit about hooks, which is something terribly new to me. I only came across this programming term for WordPress when I took a liking to the Thesis Theme and the many sites that teaches Thesis users how they can easily mod their theme with Hooks and custom codes.
Though there are many hooks that can be used within WordPress itself, I doubt I’ll be able to learn how to use them. However, a little understanding on this should be good for those who likes to mod their Themes, especially if you are using a Theme from Chris Pearson, like this Neoclassical Theme, which also works with Thesis custom codes.
From my very basic understanding, custom codes are just html or php codes that you can use to mod your themes without messing around with the core files. In order to do that, your theme must have a custom style-sheet file, normally named, custom css php. Whatever you insert into the custom css file will override the codes within the actual style-sheet. Thus if you mess up, even big time, all you have to do is to delete whatever you have inserted into the custom css file, and everything will return to normal.
The Neoclassical Theme comes with a custom css file and it uses the same div tags as the Thesis, so in theory, Thesis custom codes will work with the Neoclassical Theme. I really do not know if this is only applicable to this Theme or if it is an industry standard so if your Theme comes with a custom css file, you too can try them out.
Just for the sake of killing my curiosity, I grabbed the Thesis custom codes for customizing the background color and pasted it in this Theme’s custom css file. As you see, it works like a charm. I am convinced now that Thesis Theme’s custom codes will work in the Neoclassical Theme.
To further confirm my suspicion, I grabbed copied another code which allows me to replace the Headlines with a click-able image. and again, it worked, though this time I had to edit the codes a little bit to comply with the actual tags in the style-sheet.
This 2 experiments convinced me that the Thesis custom codes will indeed work with the Neoclassical Theme. I will be experimenting with more, but all said, I don’t think it will be anything close to what you can do with the real Thesis.
