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19. May - Version 1.3.5.2
Version 1.3.5.2 is now available. Here's what's changed.
04. May - Version 1.3.5
Version 1.3.5 is now available. Check the changelog for what's new.
Forum
20. Jan 2010 - The bbPress template used for this forum is now available in the download section. An alternative forum is simplepress, that might be a better option than bbPress, since it's a wordpress plugin and is fully integrated, and works with you current design. Info for how to set it up can be found here.
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finishing off version 1.4. Working on browser compability, something that takes longer time than I wished. I will not be active in the forum b4 the new version is done.
Here's some of the new stuff:
- Lots of new content shortcodes, like columns, lists, tabs, buttons, boxes.
- New slider and Image Gallery.
- Lots of new thumbnail post styles.
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a new child theme is now available in the downloads section.
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a spammer messed up the forum. Gotta do something to prevent spammers. I have forgotten to activate Akismet, but it is active now, so that will hopefully help. I'm also thinking about adding an approve user plugin, so I have to approve every user, and maybe require a link to their themeforest account.
Actually I would really appreciate it if everyone linked to their themeforest user profile page.
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The bugfix release is now out (version 1.4.0.1).
It fixes:
New stuff:
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The bugfix release 1.4.0.2 is now available.
fixes:
new:
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some users have been blocked from posting in the forum by the spam filter. I have now unblocked some posts from the spam inbox and will continue to monitor this. more info here.
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The wp3.1 compability release 1.4.0.3 is now available.
there is also some new stuff added:
The custom post type support was added in a hurry because all category exclusion plugins stopped working with version 3.1. Now you can create a custom post type for the portfolio and use the post_type custom field to show it with the page template (can be combined with the category custom field). This functionality is included in all templates and bfthumbs.
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RYO Category Visibility is now updated to work with WP3.1.
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Version 1.4.0.4 is now available!
Some of these features was intended for version 1.4.1, but since that release is taking more time than planned, this version got some of it's candy.
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fixes:
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I will not be able to make the deadline I have set for version 1.4.1. Much is finished, but it's just not ready to be released yet. I'm currently working on plugin integration, with all kinds of social adding plugins, rating, and also e-commerce. These things take time.
Here's some screenshots showing some of the functionality of the new layout manager. Screenshot 1, Screenshot 2.
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If you are wondering why I'm not active in the forum...and reason is that I'm taking all of July off from work. As I have done every year. Now I'm just enjoying summer, and will be back in august with a new version of the theme, new child themes, and answering questions.
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Finishing off version 1.4.1 today (10 Aug). Development always takes longer time than anticipated. Will do some testing tomorrow, and probably release it then.
Will be back in the forum when this is done.
Coming stuff:
1. Video tutorials showing the new stuff.
2. Post layout templates.
3. Child themes (an ecommerce theme, several portfolio themes etc.).
4. Release 1.4.1.1 with changes done after creating the child themes.
After this I will start developing a plugin with many of the features in BigFeature, so this functionality can be used with other themes too. And eventually I will create other themes too, but then maybe bundling this plugin.
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Version 1.4.1 is now available!
Here's a description of the new features:
This version has been about making BigFeature more flexible. Instead of being stuck with a one post layout design you can now switch it anywhere on the website with a click of a button. For this a shortcode template system was built. Check "Enable Custom Templates Feature" in the theme setting. And now a custom post type called Templates will appear. Create a new post there and add a bfthumbs shortcode like this to the post:
[bfthumbs sid="bfthumbs-blog" showposts="10" width="153" height="120" numcols="5" marginright="20" numwords="10" ajaxnav="false"]
and then select blog below the editor, and then this will be the post design for the blog index. Select the search and it will be used for search too.
The Archive and Single post view can also be further refined by selecting categories, tags or custom taxonomies. This means you can have a separate design for every category or taxomony. Just add a category to the navigation and it can work as a portfolio, shopping listing etc.
Here's an example of a single post template:
[bfbreadcrumbs sid="template2-breadcrumbs" style="lines"]
[widgetarea sid="widgetarea-single" id="sidebar3" width="270" marginleft="50" align="right"]
<div class="alignleft">
[bfthumbs sid="bfthumbs-single" numposts="1" numcols="1" width="500" height="200"]
[bfyarpp template="yarpp-template"]
[bfcomments]
</div>or this with a feature image like in the original template:
[bfhook name="bf_featured_area"]
[widgetarea sid="widgetarea-single2" id="sidebar3" width="270" marginleft="50" align="right"]
<div class="alignleft">
[bfthumbs sid="single-template2" numposts="1" numcols="1" width="500" height="200"]
[bfcomments]
</div>This is showcasing some of the new shortcodes too, like bfbreadcrumbs (shows the Breadcrumb NavXT plugin), widgetarea (shows any sidebar/widgetarea. New ones can now be created in the theme setting), bfyarpp (makes it possible to have bfthumbs template for the yet another related posts plugin), bfcomments (display the comments), bfhook (display a hook content). Other new shortcodes are bfinclude (makes it possible to include a php file) and bfauthorinfo (display author info in single post view).
Some shortcodes have also been improved, like bfthumbs (new layout system. press the bfthumbs layout button when editing a current post shortcode in the shortcode gui (the shortcode must have a sid (a unique shortcode id) for this to work)), nivoslider (fixed the issues, and improved the thumbs layout) and galleria (added a no thumbs theme).
The most improved shortcode is bfthumbs. In the bfthumbs layout it is possible to change the post look totally. And add any information, and rearrange like you want. For example: Add an image node, then add a caption node, then click on the image to open it, then drag the caption on to the bottom of the image node to nest it. Now the image got a customizable caption. This you can do with the meta node too, add any info (category, taxonomy, plugin) to it and choose the style. Meta nodes like category or plugin can be added outside the meta node too though, and styled anyway wished, because any node got a class input field. A class name can be added there and the node can be styled in a child theme.
And google font support is added too. Google fonts can be added in the theme settings (typography tab). Just copy the font name from the list on google and now you can add it in the font-family field in the layout gui (The font can also be loaded from the layout gui).
In the plugin node (in the bfthumbs layout gui) support for several plugins has been added. Like rating, ecommerce, facebook plugins etc. And plugins not there can be added with the php node.
The post image can now be any size, it can be resized or a featured image size can chosen. The image can also be left, right or center aligned by choosing it in the shortcode gui (image_align). If aligning the image when using timthumb separate image_width and image_heigth dimensions can be set.
And timthumb has been upgraded to version 2.7, that is more secure and got a new zoom crop alignment feature, that is also added to the theme.
These are some of the new features, a complete list and video tutorials will come soon, but after this introduction you will be able to play around with the new stuff, and figure stuff out for yourself too...
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Here's some screenshots showing the shortcode gui, the bfthumbs layout gui and the shortcode template system.
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The coming video tutorials will make this easier to understand and use...
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Version 1.4.1.1 is now available!
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[bfnav sid="sidenav" name="sidebarnav" style="navsmall verticalnav" admin="bf" jslib="none"]fixes:
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Version 1.4.1.3 is now available!
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Version 1.4.1.4 is now available, with a fix for the above bug. If you installed version 1.4.1.3 I highly recommend to upgrade.
Some new free child themes have also been added to the download page. They require at least version 1.4.1.4 of the theme. See the readme.html (inside the zipfile) for setup instructions.
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Version 1.4.2 is now available!
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