As you might have noticed, we use Thesis for this site. We also use Thesis for a lot of client work. And while we dig Thesis, one of the things that becomes a pain in the ass when using it, (or any theme that provides admin control of layout and design) is having to manually add common layout and design settings that we use regularly. With the release of Thesis 1.6, this has become even a bigger issue due to all the new font and color control features.That seems like a bunch of needless work to me. The concept is pretty simple. After you upload and activate it, you can download individual data files for Thesis Options, Design Options, and all OpenHook content. (located at Appearance > Thesis Import/Export)
So once you have completed a skin design, or custom layout for a client, you can just export the data files and then bundle them with the plugin. Once the skin is installed, the user simply uploads the bundled data files and all the original settings, hooks, etc. will be imported.The screen shot below shows the options page of Thesis Settings Export WP plugin.
The only words of caution you will need with this plugin has to do with the restore functions. If you click on those links before you have saved a backup, all your settings will be lost!
As things move forward, more and more skin designs will start incorporating admin panel settings rather than relying on the traditional style sheet approach. And that means skins will become less and less “plug & play” because you will have to spend time inputing dozens of settings to get your skin to look like the original demo. And skin designers will need to spend a bunch of time creating additional instructions that list all the items that need to be changed.
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I have several blogs, and i need this plugin to copy settings thesis from one to another. Thanks for sharing this!
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Thanks Hope you will find some more cool useful things here.
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March 5, 2010 at 2:34 am
This is certainly very useful.. Good work Shivendu.
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Thanks for the comment hope you will find more useful content here.
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March 7, 2010 at 10:36 am
This is going to be useful when working on Thesis Projects for others. Now we have one way to take backups.
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Surely this really helps if someone is working for client on Thesis.
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March 15, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Cool! this will be very useful for me when i start to use Thesis! bookmarked the post
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This really helps when u are working with thesis for any client or want to backup your thesis design.