In this tutorial, I show you how to change the custom-sample folder to custom in thesis theme.
Why should I change Custom-Sample folder to Custom in Thesis?
Once you installed thesis theme in your blog, you will get an attention
message. The message shows “In order to take advantage of all the controls that thesis offers, you need to change the name of your custom-sample folder to Custom.” What does it mean? If you want to access ‘Custom File Editor’ option, in this place, I have to say, Custom File editor contains
‘Custom.css’, ‘layout.css’, ‘functions.php, so if you want to access these things you have to rename the custom-sample folder to custom.
How can I change Custom-Sample folder to Custom in Thesis?
You can do that in two methods.
1. Using File Manager option in your cPanel (Control Panel).
2. Using FTP software to access your blog folders and files.
I will show you how to rename the folder using cPanel method. Watch the
below video tutorial for complete guidance.
If you can’t watch the video tutorial, do the following steps to complete
the folders rename process.
1. Login to your blog hosting control panel. Your login url should be like
This www.yourdomainname.com/cpanel
2. Once you logged in you can see ‘File manager’ option in Files section.
Click on that.
3. Inside that expand the folders in this order
Public_html–> Wp-content–>Themes–>Thesis _16.
Click on ‘Thesis_16’.
4. In right hand side, you will see various folders and files of Thesis_16
folder. Search for ‘Custom-sample’ folder and click on that.
5. Then you can see ‘Rename’ option in top of page. Click on that. Edit
The folder name ‘Custom-sample’ as ‘Custom’ and click ‘rename files.
That’s all. Now go to your wordpress dashboard and you can access
Custom file editor options without problems.
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You expalined it very well..! This site is very well done..and is really helpful for thesis users..!!Great share..!
@Shubham
Thanks for sharing your nice experience…
Thank you, I was just about to beat my head against the brick wall til I found this!
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WoW! I have gone to several websites to find this solution of custom folder in Thesis, but all were video post. But i needed the written tips that i have found on your blog.
Thanks.
Glad you find the tips useful.
This is really awesome! Just what I needed. Thank you
hai,
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Hey, thanks a ton for the straightforward answer!
Thanks for posting this guide, I had no idea what Thesis needed me to do.
Thanks for the tip and video. I have spent hours trying to figure this out and the Thesis help section is useless.
thank you!!!
Thanks for this tutorial! Well explained!
I have run into some problem though, when I’m opening up files on the left to get to the correct file, nothing is showing up on the right-hand side where the expanded files supposed to be. That whole area is just a blank box. Have you run into this before? I did choose to see hidden files, but nothing. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I thought I followed your instructions above, but now I get this error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare fb_share() (previously declared in /home3/satrnkyc/public_html/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/custom/custom_functions.php:12) in /home3/satrnkyc/public_html/wp-content/themes/thesis_18/custom/custom_functions.php on line 52
Can anyone help me?
Wow – I looked everywhere trying to find this information, and I’m so glad I stumbled upon your site. Excellent and clear instructions. You don’t know how many hairs you saved my head
Many thanks!
Alexia
Many thanks for this, Thesis never gave an explanation on how to do this, just mentioned changing ‘custom-sample’ to ‘custom’.
I did not have a clue where to look so your post helped me solve this very easily.
Thanks so much for sharing this! Just getting to know Thesis, so I will be back to explore more…
You are Most welcome!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. This problem was making me crazy~but your video was extremely helpful.
Thank you Lea.
Thank you for the awesome tutorial. This was very helpful. Blessings.
Thank you.
Great tutorial. Easy to follow
thanks