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After several months of hard work, Themify is very excited to annouce our new drag & drop framework, Themify Builder. Unlike other drag & drop frameworks, Themify Builder provides easy to use user interface which allows you to arrange the content blocks on the frontend by dragging and dropping. In other words, what you see is what you get. The content blocks can be built using various modules: Text, Slider, Video, Image, Post, Gallery, Tab, Accordion, Menu, etc. It works on all post types such as post, page, and any custom post types registered by plugins such as WooCommerce. Also, shortcodes are supported within the Builder modules. Not to mention that Themify Builder is completely responsive and works on desktop and mobile devices. Watch the video below to see how it works and check this demo site built with the Builder.

Get It Now With Discounted Price!

To celebrate this awesome release, we are offering a 30% discount off all themes and club memberships. Use 'builder' coupon code on the sign up form to redeem the discount. Promotion ends on July 14, 2013. Here is the good time to join our club memberships because Themify Builder is included in all themes.

Since Twitter has retired their API v1, you are now required to create your own Twitter Application in order to use Themify Twitter widget and shortcode. We've updated our framework to work with the new Twitter API. You just have to create an application with your own Twitter account and enter the keys in Themify > Settings > Twitter Setttings panel.

Step 1: Creating a Twitter Application

1. Go to Create an application on Twitter. You might need to login normally using your Twitter user name and password.

2. Enter a name, description and your website's URL in the corresponding fields, leave Callback URL empty.

3. After creating the application, you'll be taken to your application home. Scroll down to the OAuth settings section

You'll see the Consumer key and Consumer secret to copy them.

Step 2: Enter the access token

Go to Themify > Settings > Twitter Settings and paste in the Consumer key and Consumer secret keys.

We've restructured the templates of our WooCommerce themes. This will provide better compatibility for future WooCommerce upgrades and third party WooCommerce extensions. This update mainly involved in backend changes. As requested by many users, we've added the product description and additional information tabs in product single page.

Since there are existing files that will no longer be used they must be deleted after you upgrade the theme. These files are common to our current WooCommerce themes: Minshop, Pinshop, Shopdock and Shopo.

If you're upgrading from a version of these themes released before June 3, 2013, please follow these steps:

1. Access your site's server by FTP,
2. Go to 'wp-content > themes' folder, then the active theme folder (eg. minshop, pinshop, shopdock, or shopo)
3. Remove the following files and folders (if they exist):
   • archive-product.php
   • includes/loop-product-single.php
   • loop/add-to-cart.php
   • loop/sale-flash.php
   • single-product (this is a folder)
   • single-product.php
   • woocommerce/functions (folder)
   • woocommerce/single-product-reviews.php

Themify themes have long used Google Web Fonts, since it's the most widely used and reliable open font service. We're now taking a big step further by giving users the chance to select any font from the wide selection Google has to offer, directly from the Styling panel in the theme settings area.

After upgrading to Themify Framework 1.3.4, you'll be able to select Google Web Fonts for any typographic area in the theme, from the body text font, to headings, form elements, navigations and so on. As shown in the image, the web safe fonts are still available for you to choose.

Just remember that each Google Web Font you select adds a slight footprint to your site loading, so while you have the entire Google fonts repertory at your fingertips, you should wisely use only those that you really need to keep the good performance of your site.

Please be advised that all our themes have been updated to framework 1.3.3. We've rebuilt the framework's data structure for better performance. The major change is the theme option panel's config file. The theme-config.xml file has converted to theme-config.php. The theme-config.php file is now localized. This means you can translate the tab labels in Themify panel. The old theme-config.xml or custom-config.xml files will no longer be in use. If you currently have any custom-config.xml file, please re-create a custom-config.php based on theme-config.php.

To upgrade:

You should see the upgrade message on the Themify panel page. Click "Update now" to perform auto upgrade. Note: please ensure you upgrade entire theme, not just the framework.

After you upgraded the theme, it will prompt you to update the data. Click on the backup link to backup a copy of your current setting data. Then click "Update Now" button to update the data. All your existing settings data should be converted after the upgrade. If you encounter any issue, please post on our forum or contact us for support.

We are very proud to announce that we are releasing a very substantial update to the Themify framework, fixing many bugs, adding wanted features, and cleaning up our code to be in compliance with the WordPress standards. All Themify customers using our themes will be able to update to the newest framework, but please read the instructions below! Here are some of the highlights of updating to Themify Framework 1.2.2:

• Hooks - We are introducing hooks to our themes. Hooks help easily add content and functions without having to wrangle code and modify the templates. Check the documentation on how to use hooks.
• New Image Uploader - We have replaced our image uploader with the core WordPress media uploader. Now you don't have to worry about those pesky upload permission issues.
• Right-to-Left (RTL) Support - The Themify panel now fully supports Right-to-Left, or RTL, languages.
• Streamlined Code - We have updated the code for all of our themes, bringing them in line with the most up-to-date WordPress standards. We cleaned all of our templates by creating a new function that is more efficient and will be used, from now on, in all of our themes. All AJAX processes are now within the WordPress environment, making them much safer and standardized.
• Sidebar Changes - In order to make the sidebar name translatable, we added a sidebar ID name to all sidebar registration. Please read below before you upgrade.

To Upgrade

Usually when you upgrade Themify themes, it is a seamless and painless process. This time however, you will have to do a bit work (We promise that it's quick!) before upgrading the theme. Because the sidebar registration name has changed, you will need to backup the active widgets before upgrading the theme, otherwise the widget settings will be erased.

To upgrade the theme without losing the widget settings:

• Be sure you are using WordPress 3.4+. If not, please upgrade WordPress first.
• Go to Appearance > Widgets, drag all your active widgets to the Inactive Widgets panel
• After you backed up the widgets, go to Themify panel page and you should see the upgrade message box above the Themify panel. Then click 'Update now' to upgrade the theme. If you don't see the upgrade message, it means the version checker is cached. Just come back later to check the Themify panel again. Read auto upgrader for more details. If the auto upgrader doesn't work, you may upgrade the theme using a FTP software.
• Then go back to Appearance > Widgets, drag the widgets from the Inactive Widgets panel back to the sidebar panel(s)
• If you forgot this step, no big deal. Simply go to Appearance > Widgets and reset your widgets or find the widgets in the Inactive Sidebar panel. The theme won't break.

This is a one-time occurrence, and it will not be a continuing trend in Themify theme updates. We apologize for any inconvenience it might cause.