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A New eCommerce Theme is Coming

We would like to update everyone on what we are working now. We are busy building an eCommerce theme which has similar Ajax features as seen on IconDock. The theme is designed to work with WooCommerce, a popular WordPress eCommerce plugin. This theme is taking a bit longer than usual because of its complexity. But please be a little patient with us as we rather to delivery a high quality theme than a half functioning theme.

On the side, we recently updated Bizco to be responsive. So we now have 13 responsive themes in total. Also, we added a video embed feature in Simfo. Now you have the option to use the theme for displaying post image or video. Don't forget to follow @themify on Twitter to receive updates from us.

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Theme Auto Upgrade is Back

Over last month we put our main focus on improving our framework. We are happy to bring the auto upgrader back to live. We've rebuilt our previous auto upgrader using the WordPress core automatic upgrade function. It compares your current theme version (specified in style.css) with our latest version. If an update is available, it will display a notification above the Themify panel. All you have to do is click "Update now" and it will update the theme files on your server with our latest theme zip. Any file created by the user will leave intact.

auto upgrader notification

Upgrade Now

In order for the auto upgrader to take in effect, you must need to upgrade your theme with Themify framework 1.1.1. Please download the latest theme zip from the member area and upgrade your theme.

Customization Made Easier

The new framework also made customization easier. We've renamed some of the files: config.xml renamed to theme-config.xml, custom_functions.php = theme-functions.php, custom_modules.php = theme-modules.php. Now you may create a custom-config.xml to override the default theme-config.xml. You may add PHP and WordPress functions in custom-functions.php and custom-modules.php (note it is a dash in the file name, not underscore). Any PHP function in custom-functions.php and custom-modules.php will be added to the theme. To add custom CSS, you may create a stylesheet custom_style.css and it will be added to the <head> automatically. Any files created by you in the theme folder will not be overwritten by the auto upgrader. So we strongly recommend you that do not edit the theme core files. Use the custom-config.xml, custom-functions.php, theme-modules.php, custom_style.css, child theme and the Themify panel for customization. This will prevent the auto upgrader from overwriting your customization work.

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Framework Updated With A Secure XxxxXxxxx

Some of you might heard about the security flaw within XxxXxxxx, a PHP script that dynamically generates image thumbnails on the fly. XxxXxxxx is widely used in many themes as well as our themes. Shortly after the security flaw was found, Mark Maunder released a secure version called XxxxXxxxx. We've updated our framework with XxxxXxxxx. For security concern, we highly recommend everyone to upgrade with the latest version. To upgrade the theme/framework, download the latest theme zip from our server and replace the "themify" folder and any updated files (you can view the changelogs here). If you just want to upgrade the affected XxxXxxxx file, download a copy of XxxxXxxxx and replace the img.php file in the "themify" folder with XxxxXxxxx. Here is a tutorial on how to upgrade theme. Along with the XxxxXxxxx update, we also added the post image in RSS feeds. Now you have an option to whether include the post image in the RSS feeds.

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Themes Updated With Translation Support

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Many of you had requested a translation feature in our themes. Today we are happy to announce that the following themes have been localized: Folo, Funki, Minblr, Newsy, Wumblr, Rezo, Photobox, Bizco, ThemeMin, and Blogfolio. This means the themes now include a .po (Portable Object) file which is used for translation. It allows you to translate the theme into any language without editing the template files. Read this documentation to learn how to translate the theme into your language using the .po file with Poedit. We are localizing the rest of our themes and they should be ready soon.

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Auto Upgrading: Coming Soon

In our first framework update we added support for image handling, fixed folder and file structures, and cleaned up some of our code. We did a silent update to the framework, 1.0.2, and we'd like to share what was added and what's coming up in the future.

1.0.2

We silently released an upgrade to the framework about a week ago that included some cool features:

  • Shortcodes

    We introduced WordPress shortcodes into our latest theme Bizco and wanted to include this functionality to all our themes by packing it into the core.

  • Open JS

    We had been minifying the frameworks core Javascript file for speed and to hide a bit of it's awesome functionality. We wanted to open this up to our users and now provide an "un-minified" version of this file.

  • New Helper Functions

    themify_get and themify_check are two new helper functions introduced in 1.0.2. Each has it's own purpose to help you get or check variables from either custom fields or the Themify frameworks stored settings.

1.0.3

The next version of the framework, 1.0.3, will include a few new features including a much needed "Auto Upgrade" function.

  • Auto Upgrading

    To make everyone's life easier, we're adding automatic theme and framework version checks that will prompt you to upgrade if you are running an older version of either. This will hopefully mitigate any future issues and help to keep everyone up-to-date with the latest and greatest.

If you'd like to be a beta tester for version 1.0.3 of the framework just post below and we'll get in contact with you.

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