It's the New Year and we've been busy working on some enhancements and general updates to three of our WordPress themes.
All three of the updated themes have a new welcome page which has some quick start tips, a link to some demo content and the theme documentation so that you have help from the beginning of your theme setup.
Done Deal
Done Deal, our WordPress business theme now supports products in its slider so you can start showing them off to your visitors.
The call to action widget now has an intro text field which can show custom button text for selected pages.
You can now add more social networks to the Social widget than ever before, we've even updated it to use our brand new social icon set.
Some other enhancements
- Blog widget now matches blog layout
- Popular posts widget updated to support categories
- Twitter widget supports retweets and replies
- Theme Options added for hiding meta and social sharing
- Custom CSS added to Theme Options for storing customizations in database - please move any styles in custom.css into this field
- Image handling now uses WP Thumbnail functions. You may continue to upload images using "Set Featured Image"
General Updates
- Removed author/date meta from pricing and quotes pages
- Added missing styles to color styles - hover color and button should now match on red and brown styles
- Info Box icon size will resize in widget and set your featured thumbnail automatically
- Improved support for localization
- Updated depreciated functions
- Improved support for oEmbed
Momento
The slider widget which you can have in Momento now supports portfolio posts so you can show off your work.
We've added a single column options for portfolio items so you can showcase them nice and large.
Some other enhancements
- Titles added to column widgets
- Added Flickr widget
- Widget Coloring for easier setup
- Lightbox will now constrain to screen to a max of 1024px continue to use portfolio slider "expand" for full-size viewing
- Popular posts widget updated to support categories
- Twitter widget supports retweets and replies
- Social widget has more networks and updated icons
- Theme Options added for hiding meta and social sharing
- Custom CSS added to Theme Options for storing customizations in database - please move any styles in custom.css into this field
- Image handling now uses WP Thumbnail functions. You may continue to upload images using "Set Featured Image"
- Improved portfolio responsive styling for mobile screens
General Updates
- Portfolio widget will now recognize the correct number of posts
- Slider will now expand with animation
- Service icon will now set WordPress featured image automatically and constrain to a max of 48px
- Updated twitter widget script
- Added page attribute support for services to support custom ordering
- Updated two col widget to support same options as 4 col
- Added title fallback and open-graph support
- Footer background now expands full width - will take color in Appearance Background settings
- If light style is selected, it now properly loads original grey-blue style
- Blog widget post count now works
- Styling improved on column widgets
- Slider images in homepage will size full-width where large enough (no longer constrained to height of slider)
- Portfolio thumbnails open the correct image in portfolio slider
- Featured image no longer appears twice on portfolio slider if uploaded using main image field
- Column layout fixed for 3 and 4 column portfolio pages
- Slider can now show all post types
- Improved support for localization
- Updated depreciated functions
- Improved support for oEmbed
Carousel
We've improved the support for oEmbed for video in Carousel. Its slider can now show more post types than before.
We've added in a new 'quote' post type and page template for you to use, to start setting this up we advise to check the theme documentation first.
General Enhancements
- Updated preset homepage and added post widget option
- Updated title tags and open-graph support
- Date format now uses your format in General Settings
- Popular posts widget updated to support categories
- Twitter widget supports retweets and replies
- Social widget has more networks and updated icons
- Slider widget now supports products
- Theme Options added for hiding meta and social sharing
- Custom CSS added to Theme Options for storing customizations in database - please move any styles in custom.css into this field
- Favicon upload added to Theme Options
- Image handling now uses WP Thumbnail functions. You may continue to upload images using "Set Featured Image"
General Updates
- Gallery pages now sort based on your gallery sorting and slider will start on cover image
- Renamed Thumbnail Widget to Home Page Gallery Widget
- Renamed Home Page Posts widget to Four Column for consistency
- Removed duplicate slider widget
- Continue Reading only shows on Excerpts
- Added missing styles to color styles - hover color and button should now match on red and brown styles
- Info Box icon size will resize in widget and set your featured thumbnail automatically
- Image frames now fit images if they are smaller than the container
- Twitter feed works in Home Page Blocks widget
- Improved support for localization
- Updated depreciated functions
Upcoming Theme Updates
We're busy updating and enhancing several other themes so follow us on twitter/facebook to find out which is next.
