A Quick Review On Thesis Theme 1.8


News has spread all around the blogosphere that thesis 1.8 is in the market. Thesis theme is out with more features and even more SEO friendly. Below is a quick review on some of the features which you will get in thesis 1.8

Header Image Uploader Options:

 

thesis 1.8 header image menu in wordpress dashboard

header image option in thesis 1.8

Now you can upload header image easily with the new built-in option to upload an image for your blog. You longer have to deal with code anymore to put an image on the header.

Enabling or disabling support windows live writer with thesis 1.8

 

windows live support in thesis 1.8

New title character control and meta descritpion character control

 

new title and meta description character control by thesis 1.8

Google indexes certain number of characters in title or meta description. For example if put keyword after exceeding 70 characters then Google will not index anything after 70 character which will result in poor search engine ranking.
I don’t know how many long title and long meta description I have in my post !

WordPress 3.0 nav menu now supported in thesis 1.8

 

wordpress 3.0 nav menu options

selecting navigation menu in thesis 1.8
Thesis 1.8 now allow us to use either the wordpress navigational menu or the thesis navigational menu which was lacking in previous version of thesis.

Google Font In Thesis

 

Now you can use the some exciting Google fonts in your blog posts. The fonts are directly loaded from Google server making you site faster
Google Fonts List

Compatible with wordpress 3.0 or above

 

thesis 1.7 error with wordpress

The old thesis was not compatible with latest version of wordpress, while dealing with custom file editor thesis used to show the above error. In thesis 1.8 the problem no longer exists.

Favicon Uploader Included

 

favicon uploader in thesis menu

browsing image using thesis favicon uploader

To include a favicon you no longer have to use any plugin or any favicon generator, thesis has built-in option to upload an image.

And other new features are:

  • Category/Tag/Taxonomy Page Options

  • Custom Loop API

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