Thesis is a great theme for WordPress (this blog uses it ) but I don’t like the way it handles the meta tag description on all the Tag archive pages. In fact, Thesis repeats the blog descrption on all these pages.

In order to avoid this, you have to edit the file \lib\classes\head.php (around line 104) of your Thesis theme.

You have to change it from:

elseif (is_category()) {
				$category_description = trim(strip_tags(stripslashes(category_description())));
				$meta['description'] = (strlen($category_description)) ? '<meta name="description" content="' . $category_description . '" />' : '<meta name="description" content="' . single_cat_title('', false) . '" />';
			}

to:

elseif (is_category()) {
				$category_description = trim(strip_tags(stripslashes(category_description())));
				$meta['description'] = (strlen($category_description)) ? '<meta name="description" content="' . $category_description . '" />' : '<meta name="description" content="' . single_cat_title('', false) . '" />';
			}
elseif (is_tag()) {
				$meta['description'] = '';
			}

This code will remove the meta tag description on every tag archive page. Because it’s better to remove it than have the same description on all pages.

Let me know your impression about it.

How to avoid the same meta description on Tag archives with Thesis theme is a post from: WordPress World

Are a you a Thesis user? Do you wanna put a custom image and a banner in your blog header? Follow this tutorial to learn how to do it.

Visit the Thesis Option page of you blog and deselect these checkboxes: Show site name in header and Show site tagline in header.

Edit your custom_functions.php file ed insert the following code:

function my_header() { ?>
<div id="sitelogo">
	<a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory') ?>/custom/images/Sitelogo.png" width="610" height="100" alt="Whatever you want" /></a>
</div>
<div id="leaderboard_ad">
	<!-- Insert your banner code here (234x60) -->
</div>
<?php }
add_action('thesis_hook_header', 'my_header');

You must have Sitelogo.png image in the /custom/images/ folder of your Thesis theme. In this case the image size is 610×100 pixel. Obviously you can choose any other size but don’t forget to change the code in custom_functions.php.

You have to edit also your custom.css file (you can find it in custom folder of Thesis theme) and insert these lines:

.custom #my_header {
width: 100%;
float: left;
}

.custom #sitelogo {
float: left; height: 100px; width: 610px; padding: 0px;
}

.custom #leaderboard_ad {
float: left;
width: 234px;
height: 60px;
margin-top: 26px;
margin-left: 116px;}

That’s all, now you have a custom header with your logo on the left and a banner on the right.

Of course, you must adapt image and banner size according to your needs.

Custom image header for Thesis theme in WordPress is a post from: WordPress World