The new features and bug fixes to the new releases of BigFeature are listed here.

Version 1.3.5.2 (released 19. May)

• new: Wordpress 3.0 compability. Added support for the new navigation admin system built in to wordpress. Also added the background image/color functionality.
• new: The slider now hides all slides until everything is loaded.
• new: Setting for number of columns in the footer links widget area.
• new: Possibility to override videos with images in the slider.
• new: Added sorting to the nextgen slider.
• new: Setting for container top margin. This is useful when used with the background image functionality to show an image above the container.
• new: Added a vertical navigation style (example: [bfnav name=”about” style=”navertical”]). Useful for submenus.
• new: Child theme stylesheet order changed (no more need to use specificity to override the optionstyles css).
• new: Added the possibility to use shortcodes in the page slider.
• fix: Navigation last class fixed.
• fix: Fixed height issue in the nextgen slider.
• fix: Fixed the theme settings error that occurred when nothing in the misc section was enabled.

Version 1.3.5 (released 4. May)

• new: Parameters for setting the dimension of images in the slider. Demo.
• new: Slider integration with the NextGen gallery. Demo.
• new: Author info box at the end of posts. Integration with the My Profiles plugin to show social links. Enable it in the user profile page.
• new: Export/import for the theme settings (buttons at the bottom of the theme settings).
• new: SEO improvements. Possibility to add a custom title tag and meta tags for the blog and posts/pages.
• new: More slider button styles (style3-5). Also added larger hotspot click area for the default buttons. Demo.
• new: Setting for moving sidebar2 to the left of the content.
• new: Created a new adspace to show ads in the header.
• new: Some new bfthumbs parameters. hideimage=”true” (for hiding images), removelinks=”true” (for removing links), zoomcrop=”center” (change the zoom position (possible values: topleft/center/false)), offset=”2″ (number of posts to skip (a value of 2 = start from post 3)).
• new: Enabled the WP2.9 set thumbnail functionality, and recoded it to use timthumb. In other words, you can press “Set Thumbnail” when editing a post/page to set the default image this way.
• new: Added excerpt to pages.
• new: Added useful classes to the styles dropdown list in the editor. Install the TinyMCE Advanced plugin for it to show (go to this plugin settings and add the styles dropdown to the editor bar).
• new: Dynamic checkbox added to the Featured Posts widget. When enabled the post’s category is automatically used to display posts.
• new: Added a “Hide from search and nav-admin” checkbox for pages to exclude it from the navigation admin and the search (useful for design and slider pages).
• new: Pages set as private is hidden from the navigation
• new: The css max-width is replaced with a javascript that makes too wide images fit the content width (and also container width for pages/posts without a sidebar).
• new: The “Thumbnail image URL” now overrides the video thumb image.
• new: Added a “Hide videos from the frontpage of the blog” setting.
• new: Added avatars to recent comments.
• new: Added classes and margins to adspace widget areas.
• new: Sidebar link color added to the color settings.
• new: The content width is displayed in the theme settings (below the setting for the container width). This is useful to know when setting the media settings (the max image width for content images).
• new: Added possibility to change the default thumb post width in the theme settings. The default width is calculated from the content width, so adding a static value makes the thumb posts not fill the content width, but makes it possible to add paddings and backgrounds.
• new: Added a zoomcrop setting that makes it possible to choose where the zoom center is (and the possibility to turn cropping off). A parameter zoomcrop has also been added to the bfthumbs and bfslider shortcodes to override the default (possible values: topleft/center/false).
• fix: Caption for default images in pages is now working (when setting the default image with the Set Thumbnail functionality). Lightbox rel is also added to the links like for posts.
• fix: Adblocker adspace issue fixed.
• fix: Fixed the anchor links for comments.
• fix: The “Show older posts on the blog frontpage as thumbnail posts” setting will now also display other pages than the frontpage as thumbnails.
• fix: Revisions are now also showing for pages.

Version 1.3.4

• Improved the bfthumbs shortcode. Demo.
• Fade animation for the slider. Demo
• Added a 2. sidebar column.
• No sidebar is showing if no widgets are added.
• Video url now produce a thumb if proplayer is installed (and activated).
• Added support for videos in the photoblog template.
• Separate read more setting for thumbnail posts.
• Created a links page template (show posts as links).
• Max width added for images and videos.
• Fixed the plugin conflict with the theme settings. The theme settings will now show nomather if there is a conflict.
• Link target included for links added to the navigation.
• Confirmation dialog box added for the reset button in the theme settings.
• More custom field parameters for the portfolio template (imagewidth, textwidth, divider (set false to hide the divider)).
• Name parameter for the bfpage shortcode (name=”infobox”).
• Added lightbox rel to the feature image on single pages (only if original image is larger than the one displayed).
• Changes in the theme settings. Thumbnail post section. Container/sidebar/margin width. Added some stuff to the color section (text color, footer text/link color).
• Fixed IE6 linebreak navigation issue.
• Duplicate categories in the all category navigation item removed.
• Category visibility problem with the blog posts template fixed.

Version 1.3.3

• Integration with the “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin”. (se docs folder of the downloaded zip file for how to set it up).
• Photoblog template. Demo.
• Navigation highlighted when on a post that belongs to page template added to the navigation (also works with categories).
• More parameters for the bfthumbs shortcode. Can add pages, set the height, remove the text, sort order etc.
• Added a theme setting to “exclude the text from thumbnail posts”.
• noresize custom field parameter for the portfolio template. Custom field: name: noresize and value: true (image doesn’t get re sized).
• Support for the WP2.9 oembed video url tranformation. Just add a video url to the video input field (instead of an embed code).
• Caching of optionstyles.php (creates a css file instead). Set the “Cache the settings stylesheet” theme setting for it to work (optionstyles.css will be written to library/css folder. Make the folder writeable if this is not working automatically).
• Default targeting in cufon. Add the word default in the description field list and it will be the default font.
• Pages now displayed correctly in searches.
• Comments number fixed (it was showing not approved comments).
• Fonts selection in theme settings fixed.
• Paged title tag fixed.
• Retweet button in post setting re added.
• Wrong default image url problem fixed.
• Stylesheets added with a hook (also from a child theme, because it speeds it up).
• reset.css has been added to the top of style.css.
• single-nosidebar.php custom single template added. It’s very much like the single-portfolio.php, but without the date modification.
• new stuff added to the translation files.
• styling added for the calendar widget.
• “Add to navigation” issue with WP2.9 fixed.
• Theme settings for Colors fixed.
• Removed the link to posts on the videos (this was an issue with webkit browsers).
• Thumbnail post max height is now changed to just height (the thumbnails will resize to that height).
• Navigation down arrow issue fixed.
• Child themes updated to send the stylesheet with a hook instead of importing them (speeds up the child themes).