Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
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 […]
This is an easy one, thanks to the recently updated “Query Posts” widget. The “Query Posts” widget offers you a lot more in terms of what you can use it for, so be sure to play around with all the options there. Here is what you do: Do not include the standard “Recent Posts” widget […]
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 […]
One question that gets frequently asked on the Suffusion Support Forum is: I am seeing this empty space to the left of my posts. I have tried everything, but I cannot get rid of it. This is really easy to solve and takes just about a minute. This “problem” occurs if both the following happen: […]
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 […]
Version 3.8.2 of Suffusion was approved today. As promised this is a minor release with just some minor new features. The following are the list of changes: New Features New Widgets There are two new widgets and one revamped widget: Child Pages This might make some people happy. The Child Pages widget, if activated, can […]
Suffusion should be two years old early next month, and I have been working towards some nice but peripheral additions to the theme to get it ready for the next release. Suffusion, Quo Vadis? (Whither goest thou, Suffusion?) The main feature of the next release is going to be some new widgets: The “Category Posts” […]
Version 3.8.1 went live today. This version addresses the issues reported with Version 3.8.0. Truth be told I was a bit nervous about 3.8.0 because the change log for that version was almost 40 items long and since the development took over 4 months, I was concerned that what I had started developing in February […]
Version 3.7.9 of Suffusion was approved today, and as things happen, shortly after approval I discovered a bug which I fixed. So the new version available is 3.8.0. This version should work on the upcoming WP 3.2 – I have made sure that the admin-side JS doesn’t break. This version has a very long but […]