Thesis Sidebar Teasers

What is it?
This plugin allows you to insert Thesis Teasers inside a sidebar. It doesn’t include all the options that you would normally expect. In a future release, it might.

Requirements:
This plugin for WordPress requires that you’re using the Thesis theme (1.5 or higher.)

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CSS Styles

When you place the Thesis Teasers in your sidebars, it will inherit the same styles as your normal teasers. This means you have to override those styles with more specific styles. The most common style you’ll want to override is the width style so it fits into your sidebar. You can do it by adding the following code to your custom.css file:

#sidebars .teaser { width: 18em; }

Questions & Comments?
Leave a comment on this page and I’ll respond as soon as I can.

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Melvin Ram October 24, 2009 at 1:28 pm

Alright, I just added un updated version for Thesis 1.6. The updated version should probably work for Thesis 1.5 but I haven’t tested it yet. One shortcoming of the new version is that the image thumbnails are not linked to the posts. I’m working on a fix. If you know a way of fixing it, please email me at mr@melvinram.com.

Jeb October 31, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Hey there…thanks for this, I appreciate it very much. I’m wondering if there’s a way to control the width of the widget…it seems to be busting out of my widget column. I’m testing it at http://www.jebdickerson.com if you’d like to check it out.

Thanks much…Jeb

Melvin Ram October 31, 2009 at 3:27 pm

Jeb,

Glad you’re finding it useful. You can control the width of the teaser inside the sidebar by adding this to your custom.css file:

#sidebars .teasers { width: 18em; }

You can adjust the width (set to 18em in the above code) to whatever might suit you best.

~ mel

Jeb October 31, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Hi Mel,
Thanks for the quick response. I tried that, and changed the 18em to 10em and nothing happened. Any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong? The other widgets I’m testing/using seem to be fitting fine, but not this one for some reason…thanks again.

Melvin Ram October 31, 2009 at 4:57 pm

Are you sure you added it? I don’t see it here: http://jebdickerson.com/wp-content/themes/thesis_15/custom/custom.css

Jeb November 1, 2009 at 5:32 pm

Should be Thesis 1.6. Is it there?

Melvin Ram November 2, 2009 at 10:22 am

Okay, it looks like it’s there. Small typo. Instead of:

#sidebars .teasers { width: 18em; }

You need:

#sidebars .teaser { width: 18em; }

Melvin Ram November 2, 2009 at 10:27 am

Updated the page with info about the CSS.