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The New Station is here!
26. May, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Development
The Station has been one of our most popular themes since we released it about 7 weeks ago and as you should be now expect from WooThemes; we like to add value for existing users. So a few weeks ago, I contacted all of the current users of The Station, to suggest some improvements and new features and got a whole lot of great ideas…
New Features in V1.1.0 of The Station
Here’s a brief run-down of the new features in The Station, which you can also see live on our demo:
Integrated Woo Framework Backend & New Theme Options
So The Station is the first “older” theme to restrospectively get the brand-spanking new theme options backend we’ve been rolling out in our last few themes. Here’s a little video to show you how this looks and explain the new options we have implemented:
Alternate Featured Slider
Everybody loves the featured tabber on the homepage of The Station (right?), but we thought it’d open a whole world of possibilities for you, if we gave you the opportunity to seamlessly switch between a featured slider and the default tabber. Here’s how that turned out…
The News Station Magazine
This one is slightly more mindblowing… Ever since we uploaded The News Station mockups to our Flickr profile, we’ve been contemplating how to implement them. In the end, we decided to integrated this with the existing The Station theme framework and just allow you to switch between the default business homepage & styles to that of the magazine look.
Just look how hot that turned out:
More…
Those 3 are the biggest additions to V1.1.0 of The Station, but there’s a few smaller additions & improvements that we’ve included as well:
- Integrated Content & Sidebar Video Player (view screenshot);
- 2 New Woo-specific widgets i.e. 125×125 Ads & Sidebar Video Player;
- Improved jQuery for the tabber & sliders;
- All content on the homepage now uses the default .entry styling for typographical elements;
- Updated blog pages to include the post image using our brand-new post image uploading functionality; and
- Improved the drop-down menu’s to support more levels.
That’s fun, but how do I upgrade?
Unfortunately there’s no quick & easy way to do this at this stage, but part of the integration of the new WooThemes framework will mean that upgrades to newer versions of themes will be much easier in future. We’ve tried to limit the changes to backend / core files as much as possible; so you should be able to keep most of your front-end changes in tact throughout the upgrade.
We suggest that existing users of the theme, consult the included changelog and update only the affected files.
26 May 2009 at 8:15 am #
Hey, I just pulled off this theme, and still got V 1.015… any ETA on the new version?
Thanks!
26 May 2009 at 8:44 am #
I just checked and the zip file is 1.1.0
26 May 2009 at 9:36 am #
Do all the Woo Themes use flickr? I am interested in a blog similar to this one that would also have a powerful, organized photo gallery for hosting about a thousand pics instead of jumping to flickr. It would be for a travel blog that included HD video and High Res photos along with type blog.
26 May 2009 at 9:43 am #
Love the new features! My blog url right now looks like http://www.url.com/category/blog.
Is there a way to change the blog url \category\blog to just \blog?
Thanks!
26 May 2009 at 10:26 am #
Fantastic. I’m exited what your plans are for the Busy Bee Theme.
26 May 2009 at 11:04 am #
Great work, guys! Looking forward to seeing your themes get EVEN better with this new framework!
26 May 2009 at 1:27 pm #
Looking good. Great intro for the vid, who made it?
26 May 2009 at 2:30 pm #
Superb work guys this theme is the most simple to customise and works for so many different clients.
27 May 2009 at 3:14 am #
Nice update! I like the new features!
27 May 2009 at 7:19 am #
You guys have turned The Station into a RockStar! What an amazing theme and the new backend rocks!
27 May 2009 at 1:42 pm #
Sorry if I am a complete idiot, but where is the link to download the update?? Thanks!
27 May 2009 at 5:19 pm #
The drop down nav menus don’t line up correctly in IE.
28 May 2009 at 3:07 pm #
Also, are there photoshop files for editing? I just re-downloaded the .zip and there aren’t any.
29 May 2009 at 2:44 am #
@Jennifer – You can access it from your “My Downloads” tab (when logged in).
@Jake – The menu’s aren’t supposed to line up 100%; that’s the way it was coded. And the PSD file is a separate download from your “My Downloads” tab.
29 May 2009 at 7:51 pm #
It would be for a travel blog that included HD video and High Res photos along with type blog.
2 June 2009 at 12:57 pm #
Regarding the menu’s, so the submenu’s are supposed to line up directly on firefox but not on IE? Weird.
2 June 2009 at 4:11 pm #
is there an issue with developing from localhost using MAMP … the settings don’t seem to apply for me. It’s defaulted to the slider on my homepage and I can’t get the tabber to show. I can assign page ID’s and set my intro and sub-intro pages but I can’t get the image upload or the tabber to work. Is this something to do with permissions?
7 June 2009 at 9:57 am #
Hi there.
Fantastic job. Many thanks for the new version of Station. It definitely rocks.
One question though, regarding the way my homepage look like now that I chose the “Homepage Magazine” option.
http://mag.ceza.me
Is there a way to get rid of the blank that is now appearing at the right of “More articles” ?
I see that you managed for example to put the list of the Categories in the screenshot example you provide. Is there a way for me to act the same way, or to put a widget, or an introduction Page, or anything else ?
Thanx for your work anyway !
Erick
11 July 2009 at 10:15 am #
New version of Station is totally different. Nice job. Hope new cool design will be added.
Thank for gift
Riki
http://www.khola-janala.com