Photonic, Suffusion and Other Premium-for-Free Projects
For once this is an important security patch, hence I made this release by disrupting my regular theme development. Here are the changes: Added some security checks to ensure that the site optimization activities would take only CSS files for compression/zipping. Fixed a bug with the byline pullout in IE7, where the pullout was lying […]
The theme reviewers at WordPress revamped the official list of featured themes earlier this morning … and listed Suffusion as a featured theme! Note that “popular themes” are determined by the number of downloads that users make and the “featured themes” are listed based on a set of more subjective criteria. Till yesterday the list […]
To all users of Suffusion – a BIG THANK YOU!! On 5th December 2010 Suffusion reached 150 ratings on WordPress.org! A couple of months back I had excitedly announced the milestone of 100 ratings, whereby Suffusion became only the 5th theme to reach that landmark. I am happy to announce that Suffusion is now the […]
Suffusion Version 3.7.1 was released earlier today. These are the key changes in this version: New Features There were a handful of new features in this release Pullout-style Bylines I added a new way to display page and post byline information (the byline information comprises of “Posted By”, “Category”, “Tag” etc). You can now display […]
The first release of the Suffusion BuddyPress Pack is now available from WordPress. Do give it a try and let me know how you like it. I have updated the instructions on the plugin page. Please use the support forum for any questions you might have.
I have completed adding the finishing touches to the official plugin for the Suffusion BuddyPress Pack, to be distributed from the WordPress site. I am currently waiting for access to the SVN repository at WordPress so that I can upload the plugin. Once I have the access the plugin should be readily available. You will […]
Before I begin about this release, I would first like to apologize to all people whose layouts broke due to the last release. As it turns out I had not tested certain configurations involving the static Tabbed Sidebar, which resulted in all people using this feature having their sites become train-wrecks. Disabling the Tabbed Sidebar […]
As the WordPress theme review process gets really strict about what WP functions are permissible in themes and what are not, it becomes more and more difficult for theme developers to support older versions of WordPress. Most developers have already taken the step to stop supporting anything older than version 3.0. I have always been […]
After what seems like ages, here is a new version of Suffusion. As already mentioned, this has been a very very code-intensive release because of the nature of the changes. These are the main changes in this release: New Features The following were added in this release: Fluid Width – By far the biggest change […]
After slogging very hard the last 3 weeks I managed to get all the changes I was hoping to include in place for version 3.6.7 last night. Making use of the illusion of an extra hour from daylight savings I went ahead and tried to submit the theme to WordPress. But as I tried to […]