A Visual Reference

Very helpful, thanks!

Thanks. This is really helpful - as I lean towards visual learning this helped answer a few questions I had. Useful links too.

I am quite proficient with Joomla and am also becoming more proficient with WordPress. I like the Thesis framework but was struggling with customization and understanding "hooks". When I watched the video and when the analogy was used to explain that "hooks" are actually "position blocks" on the page, similar to "modules" in Joomla, it all became clear. Thankyou, thankyou. If you haven't watched the video, do so, as it is very helpful. I have downloaded the Thesis Open Hook plugin and have started to play with it. What a great tool for non-coders. Thanks much.

Very helpful, thanks

is there a way in thesis to remove the sidebar on category pages without using css! I really wanted to use a hook but there are no hooks i can find to use to edit the inside of the content_box and sidebars etc for a category page.. this is vital for galleries etc?!

In openhooks why is there not a separate box for just adding to pages. I only want to put ads on posts but not pages. When I add adsense code to "before post" boxes it also sticks ads on the pages which I don't want. How can I stop this from happening?

Id like to place ads before and after posts but NOT on the pages of my site. where on openhook can I put the adsense code?
Joe

Very helpfull!!!

nice one, i found it operation on this blog . nice one. thanks for posting.

it is very helpful.. tnx

It is soooooo easy to do once you start learning your way around thesis it is almost laughable. I mean, it slashes the learning curve by multiple factors and allows one to to almost pretend one is configuring one's site like a real coder.

The big advantage is you can insert all kinds of third party codes where they become useful, like rotating ad codes and the likes. In short: I like it. A lot.

Thanks , this is a great help, pls keep up the good work !

Thanks... I bookmarked this site now!

I have no words to appreciate the enormous efforts put in by the author.
It is simply superb and it takes people like me many steps forward. Thanks.

Thanks a lot

Wow! This is awesome...and just what I needed.

Is there a way to backup all the changes made on the OpenHook page?

Does the Multimedia box ALWAYS have to appear in the position shown?

I am using text widgets now to place ads at top of sidebars 1 and 2.

What I'd like is to have the multimedia box running the 6x125 ads just below the two 250x250 THEN the sidebars.

Is this possible? What hooks would I use?

CanI place the Multimedia box with six ads custom code BELOW sidebars?

Hello there. Thank you very much for all informations here. Bravo. I would like to ask a question though. As I am a real newbie to wordpress and codes and the openhook plugin, would you please tell me where I have to put my google adsense search code in openhook plugin(which box I mean)?
Thank you for your support.
All the best.
CD

I'm curious, is there a way to put an image file RIGHT IN FRONT of the title text? I would like the text of the file to be there but I have a little icon just before the blog title that I would like to put in and wonder what hook could do that. I see I can replace the whole default header and put the code in there, which may work just fine, but I wanted to see if anyone knew how to do that...

THANK YOU for this! I am not a coder, nor do I want to be, but I appreciate the brilliance of thesis and consider this plugin a BIG HELP to my process of actually implementing it! Three cheers!!

I was follow one of the tutorials and hit the Big Ass save Button and got this msg: (Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/content/k/e/n/kennywade/html/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/custom/custom_functions.php on line 65) NOW I can't log into my blog....All I get is that damn msg...I'm about to jump! Please somebody help me, everything was going so well.

Oh my gosh! Where you have been for the past few months? Love the graphics. So useful.

We've been right here since April last year :) Glad they are helpful!

Thank you very much. I'm fairly new to Wordpress, but Im happy that my designer Paul McEwan, added Hooks as a plugin. This post with all the positions explained is VERY helpful.

Thank you very much. I'm new to wordpress, but I'm glad my designer put in Thesis Hooks..... this article and the pictures of all the positions is excellent.

Greg, I use this site a lot and so lots of tks /r Scotty

Hi, I am trying to control the order of posts in my thesis powered site. I am currently having to fiddle the dates of posts (the site delivers training videos and i need them in a specific order).

I found http://postmashfiltered.wordpress.com/ and installed the plugin. The admin area allows the movement of posts as per the plugin instructions but thesis does not execute the new order :(

The plugin in suggests one modify the loop in the template's index.php but of course this does not exist in Thesis.

Is there a hook I can use to modify the following?

To make use of this chosen order you will need to modify your template code:
Open wp-content/themes/your-theme-name/index.php and find the beginning of ‘the loop’. Which will start:
if(have_posts())
Then add the following code directly before this:
$wp_query->set(‘orderby’, ‘menu_order’);
$wp_query->set(‘order’, ‘ASC’);
$wp_query->get_posts();
?>

Cheers

AJ

If you wanted to manipulate the order of posts; you would need to create a sub-loop, and perhaps a custom homepage. Since it's frowned upon to change Thesis core files, the loop is not in "index.php" per say, but can be found inside /thesis_16/lib/html/

Still, I wouldn't play around in there unless you absolutely know what you're doing.

I'm curious how you got the ad banner up in the top right corner of this page. Which hook is that tied to?

I created a new div and floated it "right" inside of thesis_hook_header.

<div id="banner">

</div>

Then the custom .CSS would look like:

#banner {
float: right;
}

Thanks for the program, it made my deciding factor to using Thesis.

Thanks for the photos. Very helpful. I wonder if you've done one for full-width framework. It includes hooks like "thesis_hook_before_content_area" that are full-width of the browser page. Thanks for your time.

Ben, fortunately, the hooks are the same no matter which framework you choose.

I just added the Thesis OpenHook Plugin and having this visual guide definitely helps a lot. Thanks

Just the images I needed right now :-) Thanks

I'm having trouble with understanding hooks. (I don't see any yellow bars on my screen) so I checked in with Thesis support,
godhammer, at thesis support said, "OpenHook is a third-party plugin used by some to make on-screen (in WordPress) editing of custom_functions.php and custom.css more accessible. It also has a redundant php area that simplifies hooks, where "simplifies" is an opinion held by many, I do not personally feel it to be of great value, but I'll note some users feel strongly otherwise.

As a plugin, OpenHook is not something "Thesis" (DIY Themes) can guarantee will work or upgrade alongside Thesis, and there have been a few recent issues reported with Openhook, though there are workarounds."
So now I'm really confused about hooks, what are they? Is it just a way to describe the coding that is added to custom_php, and custom_css files? I'm not a programmer, just wanted to be able to customize a blog (that's why I paid for Thesis) but perhaps it is much more complicated than I thought. I know html and mid- css, but I never messed with php.

A hook is a module position. Actually, a hook is nothing more than a simple PHP Function. It's just code that is left "open", and placed in specific places in HTML for you to put "stuff" in.

The Open-Hook plug-in was designed to make it easy for you to drop code into these PHP Functions, AKA "Hooks".

That rocks. I love the visual. Now to just get them printed out and posted next to my computer :)

I love being able to use hooks with Thesis. It lets you do some really cool things site wide and play with things.

Best set up I have ever found for a reasonably non techie person.

Thanks for that, you really made understanding hooks that much easier. I'm tingling with the possibilities now... Cheers!

Hey mate, thanks for the graphics. Is there any way to download them so I can print them out? I can only view them in the lightbox window on your site.

Thanks!

Frank

Thank you Rick for your awesome plugin and expanding my web design world!

Great Help for Thesis framework hook positions.

Thanks! I just used it to fix something that has been bugging me on my new Thesis Wordpress site.

Thanks agian.

What a really useful guide to hooks. I was going to do it all the 'old fashioned way' purely out of habit after buying Thesis the other day. Then I discovered the open hook plug-in and onto this page. Added you to Stumbleupon too.

~ Paul