If you are one of our Advanced Newspaper theme users, tune yourself in for some exciting news.
Earlier this year, we sat down and scratched our brains to find a solution to a tricky premise ““ whether to release new WordPress themes – or – to improve the functionality of our previous themes. In the end, it turned out to be a tough balancing act especially since we had great ideas and an impressive line-up of WP themes for 2010 release. Moreover, we are planning to release Gabfire V3, a couple of new CMS themes including a travel magazine concept and some more surprises. Yes! We always love surprising our beloved customers with updates, new features, enhancements to existing themes, and much more.
We always worked hard towards releasing new themes that are a perfect blend of technology, SEO, user friendliness, and utility; our new Transcript theme is not any different.
The great success of our Newspaper Theme series had encouraged us to come up with another news/magazine based theme that is clean, simple yet powerful, and fresh enough to let your content speak. Since we always wanted to know what readers would like to see in a new theme, we have taken into account their feedbacks based on a preview of the pre-release theme, and in fact had got some excellent ideas to implement into Transcript.
A large share of user feedback was in favor of including an eye catchy slider and an advertisement management module inbuilt in the Transcript. Hence, in Transcript theme, we have included an innovative advertisement module that lets users enable/disable seven different ad spots, plus a slider, which can easily set to be static/auto rotating via theme control panel. Another innovative addition to the new theme is the Media bar, which is intelligent enough to recognize whether the post is a Photo or Video news, and groups either Video or Photo to display on Media Bar of the theme at a time.
We have been working on the new version of Advanced Newspaper for the past month. Before proceeding for the theme update, we listened the everyone’s suggestions and prepared a road map for our self what features to be added into the new version.
A new designed theme settings page
Possibility to switch between image and text based logos using theme settings page
New navigation bar on header for pages
Commented CSS files to make things easier for customization
Well, the moment that everyone has been waiting for is finally here! WordPress 2.8 has been released and with the new version of the most popular online content management system now in play, there are plenty of new features for the avid WordPress enthusiast to explore.
That having been said, some might see a cautionary tale to this measure since a lot of the WordPress themes that we have on our Gabfire Themes website were created when different and earlier versions of WordPress are the norm. Anyone that has been around the internet for any length of time has learned to be cautious about keeping their current setup through upgrades and we understand that you might therefore be nervous about what the release of WordPress 2.8 means for the WP themes on this Gabfire Themes website.
