Couple of things here:
Do try and get help at the DIYForums for Thesis – you paid for access, BUT, the BIG reason is there are a lot of us over there tweeking and geeking and someone there has seen the issue and fixed it. They have GREAT support.
Second, when you go to the DIY Forums and ask for help, others are looking for the same help, specific to Thesis, which has a wonderful way to modify it and keep it consistent upgrade after upgrade. So it helps the rest of us learn.
If you post here you might get an answer from someone suggesting you modify a file that you should not – in Thesis there are only two files you should modify custom.css and custom_functions.php. Those two drive the customization of your blog.
Now, to answer some of your questions in Thesis:
I checked out the site you referred to and looked at it with Firebug for Firefox then tested it on one of my sites.
To get the color and radius in the sidebar in Thesis you add the following to the custom.css file:
.custom .sidebar {
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 12pt;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright: 12pt;
-moz-border-radius-topleft: 12pt;
-moz-border-radius-topright: 12pt;
background-color: #F8F8F8;
width: 94%;
}
One of the confusing things you asked was “how do I get the pages” in your footer. What you want are the links to pages in your footer.
Add this code to your custom_functions.php file
remove_action('thesis_hook_footer', 'thesis_attribution');
function add_custom_footer () {
?>
<p>©Copyright 2009 All Rights Reserved <a href="https://YOUR PAGE LINK HERE.com" target="_blank"> THE TITLE OF THE PAGE HERE</a>
<?php
}
add_action('thesis_hook_footer', 'add_custom_footer');
You might also want to look at:
Marko Saric’s great blog with tips on customizing Thesis,
Sugar Rae’s Thesis Hooks for Dummies
And there are tons more in the DIY Forums and the newly launched Thesis Answers Forum available though DIY – lots of good coding there.
Anyway, I have a lot of fun with Thesis. Once I began to learn more it got easier.
Consider getting the Thesis OpenHook plugin to help you with your coding.
