Been a couple of weeks since an update. In that time we’ve done a fair amount of support on the forum, and it’s taught us a lot about what people want and how people use the theme. We’re going to be updating the faq to reflect the problems people have had.

Yesterday I made the stupid mistake of upgrading this blog to Wordpress 2.5 without making any backups, and something went wrong so the blog stopped working for 20 minutes. Thankfully it was simple to fix (reupload the files) but there were a few minutes of mild panic.

Mimbo Pro Updates

This weekend we spent some time working on the next Mimbo Pro update. It’s our intention to keep the updates few and far between but obviously if important things crop up we’re going to fix them.

This update includes one minor html change, some improvements and bug fixes for the recently open sourced TimThumb, and some changes to the admin to fix Wordpress 2.5 display bugs.

In order to send out Mimbo Pro updates we have set up a Google Group. We did this because the Plimus email system is less than stella, so we are now asking all users to sign up. Hopefully Google will send you all an invite soon, but the invites have to go through a verification process to make sure we’re not spamming people. The group is invite only so have your order number to hand so we can verify it’s you signing up.

We plan to release the Mimbo Pro 1.2 update within the next 24 hours so I would suggest signing up to the group soon as the information for getting the update will be announced there.

More Payments Options

One of the things we’ve been asked for is more payment options. Specifically an upgrade option, and a price for charities. We now support both charities and upgrade. Simply submit a help ticket asking about them and we will send you the necessary information.

Today we sent out the first update for Mimbo Pro. We were hoping to stick to only updating to fix bugs but we had some ideas for new features and couldn’t resist adding them.

An abbreviated version of the changes is…

  • new control panel options for carousel count and page/ categories in top navigation
  • full gif and png support for timthumb
  • fixing timthumb bugs
  • fixing wp-head plugin hook issues ad author image problem
  • a couple of other small fixes

The new features are the ability to adjust the number of items visible in the carousel, and the ability to swap between displaying categories (the default) and pages in the top navigation. Both small changes but welcome too.

The other big fix is Timthumb. For those who don’t know Timthumb is the script that crops and resizes images on the site. As well as some bug fixes Timthumb now supports pngs and gifs properly. Also, as mentioned yesterday, Timthumb will soon be made open source and released for free on Google code. We’re just trying to decide what license to use and then it will be released.

The forum has also seen huge growth, with people both looking for help, and giving it.

Note: the updates and accompanying newsletter will be sent out Thursday, March 20th. Anybody hasn’t received a copy after that day should contact us through our brand new support ticketing system.