Today we're giving everyone a sneak peak at our next theme "Photobox". The theme's name is pretty self-explanatory. We want to give photographers an elegant theme to showcase their work. Keeping an attention to detail and focusing on photos. A few features are it's slideshow with Lightbox integration and native WordPress gallery support (no need for plugins to generate the gallery). We can't wait to get it out!
Product Releases
Edmin Theme Release
We're proud to announce Edmin as our eighth official theme release. Edmin was built to have an elegant, out of the box, design with a strong core layout structure. This theme includes a number of different layout options which help you customize this theme to your needs. With features like our home page slider, page and post custom fields, and our standard Themify Framework built-in for maximum customization and creation this theme is definitely one to pick up.
If you're interested in getting Edmin, for a limited time discount, enter the promo code "edmin" on checkout to save 30%. This coupon code can only be applied to Edmin. The discount code expires as of November 5, 2010.
Sneak Peek at Edmin
ThemeMin is one of our popular themes out right now. With that in mind, we've decided to release another minimal theme called Edmin that targets at the editorial and magazine sites. The theme will come with a configurable feature slider. It has multiple layout options such as list view and various grid views. Below is the design mockup of Edmin.
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Bizco Released
Our newest theme, Bizco, utilities a lot of the new WordPress 3.0 features such as custom post types and child theme support. These features make managing your site a lot easier. Along with a number of other features, we've introduced a new page templating option which will allow you to query and display posts along with the page content. To celebrate Thanksgiving holiday and this theme launch, we are offering 20% discount on our themes. Enter "thanksgiving" coupon code on checkout to save 20% discount. Code valid until Oct 15, 2010.
Custom Page Template
You can add a query of posts, from a certain category, to your page. You can choose from a variety of layout options to style the queried posts as well as select the number of posts per page and specific image settings. Take a look at our demo to see how we can have various layouts on different pages and posts.
Bizco Sneak Peek
Time to give you a sneak peek at our next theme to be released — Bizco. This theme was made to be very clean and professional which is perfect for businesses and general company web sites. It takes full advantage of the new WordPress 3.0 features, such as custom post types, to manage the homepage content. Sorry, we can't say much more then that for now. We'll be looking forward to getting this new theme in your hands very soon.