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ShopDock Extension Now Available on WooCommerce!

ShopDock, one of our popular e-commerce WordPress themes, is known for its great user experience when it comes to shopping carts: you can add and update your shopping cart with ShopDock without reloading the page.

If you haven't seen it before, check out our demo for ShopDock, where a dock at the bottom of the page appears once you have an item in the cart. Our designers and developers utilized CSS and JavaScript to make it possible, and the dock creates a much simpler user experience for shoppers as they can see items added to the cart instantly.

We are now proud to announce that all WooCommerce websites will be able to provide that functionality for their stores: the ShopDock Extension for WooCommerce is now available!

You can download the extension here, and take a look at the documentation here. This is a WooCommerce Extension that adds the ShopDock instant cart functionality to any WooCommerce website, out of the box without any coding or configuration. Of course, you can always change the look and style of the ShopDock plugin within your WooCommerce settings.

Please let us know if you have any questions about the plugin. Enjoy enabling ShopDock in your stores!

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Black Friday: 40% off Themify WordPress Themes!

With American Thanksgiving just around the corner, Themify wants to get in on the celebration!

Starting now until November 26th, 2012, you can use the coupon code ' BLACKFRIDAY ' to get 40% off on all of our WordPress themes including the Club membership! This is a great opportunity to join our Developer Club at a fantastic price. You can get all 33 themes (Photoshop mockup files included) for just $53.40 (normally $89). That is $1.62 per theme! If you are an existing member, this is a good time to buy more themes or upgrade to the Club membership.

Giveaways!!

In addition, we will be running a giveaway during the sale. We are randomly selecting five lucky people who will receive any two (2) Developer themes of their choice! All you have to do is simply tweet this:

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Once you've tweeted that exact message out, simply leave a comment on this blog post with the URL of your tweet, and you will be entered into the giveaway.

Good luck to all participants, and Happy Thanksgiving!

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Agency: Responsive Theme for Design Agencies

Themify has been on a roll lately, releasing WordPress themes that really push the boundaries of responsive design. Today is no different. We are proud to announce Agency, a clean, minimal, and responsive theme meant for design agencies. Agency is packed with a bunch of custom post types: Portfolio, Highlight, Testimonial, and Team. It allows you to beautifully showcase your services, portfolio, and products. Fully customizable using the Themify shortcode convention, allowing complete freedom in how the website behaves and displays itself across any and all devices. See our demo: Home 1, Home 2, and Home 3.

Limited time offer: use the coupon code "agency" to save 30% off the Agency theme. Offer ends on Nov 28, 2012.

Responsive Design

As usual, we have built Agency as a responsive WordPress theme out of the box. This means that you will see the same beautiful Agency WordPress themes, regardless of your monitor size or mobile device, without having to code.

Slider

With Agency, you can create custom slider content using images, videos, captions, and galleries.

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Custom Post Types

Agency theme uses WordPress custom post types to manage the portfolio items, highlights, testimonials, and team members so that they are completely separate from the blog posts. Each custom post type has its own custom panel which makes it very simple to manage your content.

Portfolio

With Portfolio posts, you can use a single static featured image, or use multiple images and Agency will automatically create a slider with all of your images. See Portfolio shortcode demo.

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Highlight

Use the Highlight posts to display a short paragraph of text to highlight your agency's feature list or services provided. You can take a look at our Highlight demo to get a better idea of how this works.

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Testimonial

Use customer testimonials to provide social proof for visitors to your agency website and increase lead generation and conversion rates. Take a look at our Testimonial demo to see them in action.

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Team

Use Team posts to display a complete list of your team members. Team members can be categorized based on their job title, such as Executive, General, Management, etc. You can take a look at our Team demo to understand how Team posts work.

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Full Control of Page Layout with Shortcodes

Agency theme uses custom post types to display any content, anywhere on the page, post, or sidebar widgets. Each post type shortcode has fully customizable parameters which allow you to affect layout style, image size, toggle content, etc. You can also combine any of our existing shortcodes to create unique page layouts. Check out our demo pages: Home 1, Home 2, and Home 3. Be creative with the shortcodes.. mix it with column, slider, map, or any shortcode from plugins.

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Themify Framework 1.2.2 Update

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.

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Themify & WPML Compatibility

The number of sites sporting a Themify theme grown a lot during this year, and the immediate effect of that is that we're seeing more and more users in multiple languages now, from Spanish and Portuguese to Arabic and Chinese and many more. This is why we are very happy to announce that our WordPress themes are compatible with WPML, one of the leading multilingual plugins that helps you running a multilingual website with a single WordPress install. Themify has worked with the WPML team to verify that our themes are compatible with their plugin, from settings pages on the back end to the site's front end. You can learn more about WPML and Themify in WPML's press release.

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What is Responsive WordPress Theme

Responsive WordPress themes and responsive design in general has emerged as a hot topic in the digital world. At Themify, we made the decision to create responsive WordPress themes rather early on, and it has become one of our strongest features and selling points. Because of our extensive knowledge in this domain, we wanted to clear up exactly what you get with a “responsive WordPress theme” and what it means when you buy an awesome WordPress theme from Themify.

What is a “responsive WordPress theme”?

When answering this question, we can also answer the question “What is a responsive design?” A responsive design and responsive WordPress theme utilize CSS and JavaScript to adapt a website’s layout to the user’s “viewport.” For those who don’t know, a “viewport” is essentially the visible portion of the canvas inside a web browser.

We use responsive design to create a consistent user experience for browsers of all shapes and sizes because the digital world doesn’t run on just 4:3 resolutions anymore. We adapt content to viewports of different sizes, including everything from mobile phone browsers all the way up to large television screens.

Many people confuse “responsive design” with “mobile design,” but mobile design targets mobile devices specifically, whereas responsive design includes support for mobile devices and many more.

What does “responsive design” look like?

To get an idea of what responsive design, especially in WordPress, can achieve, take a look at our Elemin theme.

Elemin displays nicely on your standard browser size, but you can change the size of your browser to get an idea of how the layout changes and adapts along with the width of your browser window. The layout never breaks, and the content simply flows to fit with the browser’s viewport.

A viewer can enjoy a website using the Elemin theme on their desktop, their laptop, their notebook, their tablet, their mobile device, and even their television. The layout and experience of the website remains consistent throughout.

Here are some more hand picked responsive WordPress themes from Themify

As shown in the examples below, responsive design is not limited to just blog theme. It can be complex grid layout like Pinboard, Ajax shop theme Minshop, 3-column Responz, and corporate theme with responsive slider like Suco. Check our responsive themes collection for more.

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