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Announcing Rock N’ Rolla version 2 @fxthemes

Pulished November 17, 2011 | Leave a response

Rock N' Rolla

Last week I transferred some themes, two to be exact from the domain themelit.com over to fxthemes.com where I’ve been listing the premium themes for sale. Along with the domain transfer the store front got a design overhaul including a responsive design!

Since ƒxThemes got a fresh new look I thought I’d freshen up one of the two themes. Rock N’ Rolla, effectively known just as Rolla in version 1 was a custom theme I built for musicians and event venues. The first installment saw my first attempt at HTML5 for public consumption. Like most WordPress work I do, I try to keep the design simple fresh and limited on external images making use of CSS and its somewhat older browser incompatible younger sibling CSS3.

For the time being you can check out version 1 here (until I take down the site).

The Update

Three weeks ago I started what I thought to be a slight update the the theme. I was going to update the core framework to the current 1.2.1 from 1.0. Update some admin options like jQuery CDN hosted versions and some improved functions for the latest WordPress version 3.2 as well as the upcoming version 3.3.

The Overhaul

I am not sure at what point it all changed, but the small list of changes, maybe 15 turned into a final changlog of over 150 changes. Some of which I didn’t log and almost don’t remember. So, version 2 was born.

Even though the numerical version shows 0.2 It is still a major update to the theme. Some of the maor changes are as follows:

  • Update: Hybrid Core to version 1.2.1.
  • Complete overhaul of design and colors.
  • Changed folder name from rolla to rocknrolla.
  • Added new widgets, removed old widgets.
  • Removed Custom Post Type event in favor of The Events Calendar plugin.
  • Added HTML5 audio player: jPlayer requires javascript.
  • Removed 95% of options.
  • Theme updated and ready for WordPress 3.3.
  • Theme requires certain plugins (plugin installer included).
  • Added support for Crowd Favorites Post Formats UI plugin.
  • And much more..

So, don’t hesitate to visit the theme page, the demo page, or purchase the theme.

Bonus: If you tweet about the theme, you’ll get a discount on the price!

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Announcing Featured Image Column plugin

Pulished September 19, 2011 | Leave a response
Featured Image Gallery plugin

Over this past weekend I organized WordCamp LA. Saturdays camp went very well as did developer day on Sunday. Sunday yielded so good conversations and some even better idea’s from the likes of Marty and Mike. Will add a link once it’s out.

Mike asked about adding the posts featured image (if available) in a column next to the title into core. And while that a great idea (and I think there is a trac ticket for that), I though it would be an easy plugin to create. So I started Sunday and finalized it some time this week when I got repository access and uploaded the first version.

So go grab it and let me know what you think.

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WordCamp SF overview day one

Pulished August 12, 2011 | 1 Response

BuddyPress: 9:40am

John James Jacoby is on stage opening up WordCamp development day downstairs with BuddyPress and what’s new in BP 1.5.

What’s exiting? A new default BuddyPress theme with more AJAX’y.

How is BuddyPress used?

  • internal Intranet at Automattic.
  • School internal use.
  • Just set up for profiles.

Web fonts for developers: 10:01am

Greg Veen is talking about fonts on the web and is the co-founder of Typekit.

Bleeding Cowboys, is Greg’s favorite font.

Scaling, Servers, and Deploys. A session that might go over my head: 10:45am

Mark Jaquith is talking scales.

What is Cowboy Coding? deploying on live servers

Deploying with Capistrano, and build everything local. Something I kind of do, but need to SVN or GIT WP with the theme and plugins installed.

Further posts coming in the future via posts to continue the conversation. I am assuming on his personal site or on mark.wordpress.com. Exiting.

Taking a break from the next session, then lunch.

Updating in progress..

Will be writing on the WPCandy Liveblog.

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