AnnouncementsPosted by Adii Rockstar on 11 Aug 08
Theme Upgrades, Changelogs & Subversion
We’re proud to announce that all of our themes are now officially on Version 1.1. You might be asking why only now and you’d have a very valid question… 
Fact is, we only recently started using subversion for all of our themes, which has allowed us to start documenting all of the changes to the themes in depth (even though our themes had already been upgraded / modified in the past). This means that if you now download one of our themes, you’ll find a changelog text file included in the package, which details all of the changes made.
Brief description of changes made…
Here’s a broad overview of the changes we’ve made:
- General Upgrades. If you have a look at our theme documentation, you’ll note that we’ve changed some of the theme options, whilst streamlining some of the functions within the themes.
- Decreased our dependence on 3rd party plugins. This means that you won’t have to use the Custom Fields manual workaround or the Flutter plugin ever again. We’ve also improved the standardized options within the theme, so that the theme works better out of the box (i.e. without following the installation steps in our theme docs).
- Custom Write Panels. We enlisted the help from WordPress genius - Joost de Valk - to help develop a WooThemes-exclusive custom write panel script, which adds the additional fields - required by our themes - to the the Write > Post & Write > Page panels. No more plugins, no more Flutter; everything works out of the box!
- XHTML / CSS Validation. This is another aspect we’ve been neglecting on our themes… But it’s now safe to say that all of our themes are fully validated and W3C standardized.
- Functions.php clean-up. We’ve given our functions.php & theme options a further upgrade by cleaning it out and streamlining it even more. It is not where we’d like it to be just yet, but it’s getting there.
- Live Wire Merge. We’ve merged the three Live Wire themes (2.0, Edition & Style) into one package, which means that if you now buy any of these on either Single or Developer’s License; you’ll get all three. We will also be giving current users of the previous individual themes, access to the new, merged package.
Subversion
We’re still doing some beta testing of our subversion server, but we will most probably give our users access to the subversion files very soon. This would mean that you could use appropriate SVN software to merge your modified theme with our latest version on WooThemes.
Upgrading
All the updated themes are available from “My Theme Downloads”. If you’d like to upgrade and have made changes to your existing theme, we strongly advise you to have a look at the changelog for the theme that you are using. The changelog will specify which files has been modified. If you haven’t made any modifications to the theme, then you can just overwrite your old version.
To get the custom write panel working, you will need to upload the /functions/custom.php and functions.php files to your theme directory. Please check out the updated theme documentation which has new screenshots of the custom write panel.
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adii (August 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm)
Preparing for WordCamp…
With WordCamp South Africa around the corner, I need to start preparing for WordCamp and organize my thoughts on the topic of premium themes, since I’ll be starting off the day with a talk titled “Premium Rated Themes” (the full sched…
subversion wikipedia link is mistyped.
Great news!
Are the previous buyer can also taste this updates?
Hey Felix, the updates are avaliable to all our WooThemes’s theme purchasers and subscribers
Heya Mark, wow! This surely a great day for such a great Woo news indeed!
Long live WooThemes!
great updates.. heard several people complaining about the complex flutter plugin…
Nice job making these huge updates. Now we can put the Flutter plugin to rest.
R.I.P. Flutter!
Btw how to customize the new author info / show it?
Felix - To show it you need to enable in options panel. If you want help to customize it please use the forums
gazette didn work with wp 2.6.1 Why???????????
When was the last update for LiveWire themes? Does it have subversion built into it and is it available in the download area for people who have bought this theme?
Do you have to redo all the edits made in the previous version of the theme?
Alan F.
Alan - This was obviously the latest update for Live Wire. Subversion is not available to users just yet and the changelog dictates which files has been upgraded.
sweet! congrats and I’m looking forward to 1.2 across the board
I’m using the Proudfolio theme. I can’t see the Proudfolio custom settings? So, where do I go to make some upgrades so, I make this visiable?
@Dan - You simply need to redownload the theme from your “Download My Themes” tab when logged in.
I clicked “Download My Themes” then what am I suppose to do to get the upgrades for the Proudfolio custom settings?
@Dan - Please use the support forum for technical help.