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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.