Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
As alluded to earlier, I have been working quite furiously on version 4.0.0 the last few weeks. Broadly speaking this release doesn’t change too much of how the theme used to work, however there are a few major additions: Mega-menus: I know that I have been dangling this carrot for a while, so hopefully the […]
As I wrap up the development of version 4.0.0, there is one very important note for people using the Magazine template. Current users of the theme see an option, Templates → Magazine to change → Sidebar layout to adopt, where you can pick a particular layout. If that is set to “Default” for you, you […]
I am going to be making a change in Version 3.9.3 that might impact some users. I had once introduced a method to include custom PHP in the theme. That was more than 20 months back. Lots of things have changed since then, including provision of support for child themes. If anyone is using that […]
For a change, here is a request from my end. I am in the process of integrating SmugMug with Photonic. To build out the demo page I need permission to use some albums / photos from fine folks using the plugin. How will this help you? Well, I cannot think of any reason other than […]
I know that there is a navigation menu bug in 3.9.0 and that is on its way to being fixed. The reason it hasn’t been done yet is because I have been down in the trenches working on a new skin for the theme, as alluded to in the last couple of posts. In this […]
It has been a while since I provided a Suffusion update, with Photonic having consumed most of my development time. However, with the first version of Photonic out of the gates I can now get back to Suffusion. Contrary to my promise earlier, this release of Suffusion is not small in terms of a change […]
Suffusion today became one of very few themes to have been downloaded officially more than 500,000 times from WordPress.org. The other themes in this category are Atahualpa, iNove, Lightword and Mystique – all themes much much older than Suffusion apart from Mystique. A Big Thank You to all of you users! The next release of […]
Folks familiar with the WordPress universe are probably aware of a major vulnerability that was discovered in TimThumb recently. For others, TimThumb is an image resizing script that is very popular among WP theme developers who like to offer that extra bit of customization to users. When the WP team was made aware of the […]
A year back to the day I was celebrating Suffusion’s first Birthday. Time has flown since then and we now have me writing the second Birthday mail already! I had promised a few things a year back: Better Typography – I am writing a plugin for font management and I will have incorporate aspects of […]
About a year back I wrote an article on the Theme Review process that WordPress had instituted. In only its second month at that time I was among several users to have expressed frustration with the process. Several months have passed since the experiment has moved from the lab to the mainstream, and I thought […]