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Finally I have finished customizing thesis into the look I wanted, the look you see now does exactly blend with my personality:

Simple and straightforward but calm.

But I didn’t expect playing with Thesis required an extensive coding knowledge, I thought it was just click this & that as it’s hyped, but the reality was extremely different.

Yes it’s click this & that if you’re using the default appearance then stay with it and don’t want to do something out the default look has provided.

And of course not activate Custom Stylesheet menu.

Since I want to have a unique look, I decided to activate the menu & want to add this & remove that!

The decision I made had dragged me to dive into the sea of freakish codes, the codes are named Hook, honestly never heard of it before.

These hooks is the key if I want to add something or to remove the existence menu/features or move something from its place to another chosen place, not only that, the next phase is I got to know the serial of each hook in order to do that.

For example the serial hook code like this hook_before_header is the area to place something above header or remove anything before it, afterward, the last phase is I got to add a specific CSS Code to control its look.

At the very last I still need to put extra efforts as I usually do with free themes. There are processes in Thesis. But fortunately Thesis theme is backed up by both official and unofficial hackers.

From their Thesis hacking tutorials I gradually understand the hierarchical structure and mechanism of Thesis and was able to play with it easier, as the result I got to spent a 1 whole day to search tutorials both in Thesis forum and from the internet to juggle its look to be out of default look.

In overall, after all troubles I’ve through, I am satisfied with Thesis, this is a amazing theme.

Please keep in my mind: you won’t find the same difficulties if staying with the default look of Thesis like this:

And Thesis also gives shortcut to:

• Change font type & its size for Header, Title, Post, Sidebar…etc & change their colors without opening CSS code page
• Show edit button for comments/posts if you want to edit them at any time without openning your Theme Editor
• Switching from 3 column to 2 colomn
• Make the homepage to be a Magazine look instantly with Teaser feature
• And other features to improve our blogging productivity, all can be found both in Thesis Options & Design Options.

After 3 days of having intimate interaction with Thesis, I came out with the conclusion: Thesis gives all of the heavy lifting behind the scenes for SEO or Search Engine Optimization and obviously NOT for redesigning our theme to have the wished look.

Why SEO? Because it covers almost all the required aspects to get the SEO optimized theme by default. For example, I am able to reduce the usage of SEO plugins & don’t need to edit my Theme to get cleaner codes.

Because in Thesis theme I will have the options to:

• Set Homepage Meta Description and keywords
• Rewrite Title, Meta Description & Meta keyword for each post
• NoIndex option to a specific page or post.
• NoIndex option to Category.
• NoIndex option to Tag Links.
• NoIndex option to Archive.
• Canonical URL option to avoids duplicate content

Familiar with the above features? Yes they are deadly features of All In One SEO Pack plugin! Thus, in Thesis I don’t need that great plugin albeit it doesn’t generate META tags automatically like AIOS, I can deal with that.

• Clean code.
• Proper H tag usages

By default, Thesis has given a complete package of internal SEO aspects for every SEO theme should has, but to be frank you don’t need Thesis at all, as you can do it yourself SEO to your theme.

But if you want to have a great SEO theme instantly without the need of plugins or coding a theme to get a proper code structure and valid, having great support to back you up and you’re willing to spend time to understand the hook (in case you want to remove or add something to make your Thesis stands out from the crowd), or just fall in love with the default Thesis theme look.

Then I suggest you to try your hand on Thesis, it’s one of the best option for premium themes, no doubts about it .

To conclude this post I’d like to say: The coders of Thesis did give a great deal of times and use their expertise to present to us a great SEO optimized theme.

Update I no longer using Thesis Theme.