New WordPress Theme Updates

It’s been a while since my last official theme updates – and this is a big one. Elemental has received the most updates, but all themes have gotten some new additions and fixes. All the updates are ready now to download from the accounts control panel.

Elemental and Child Themes

To show off the new Elemental functionality I have created my first ever screencast. You’ll have to forgive the slightly funky editing and sound work. Also remember that all new functionality added to the theme will automatically copy over to the The Local and any other child themes.

A few notes on the video above:

• Custom Menus: New in WP 3.0, I’ve added it to nearly all of our themes. This feature alone will make the update worth it.
• SEO: I’m not an SEO expert, but I have been using the new features on my own website for a month or two now and with have seen an increase in my search engine traffic.
• Custom Widget Templates: This was created from a desire to create a flexible page layout system that would let people create any layout they like without editing any code.
• Thumbnail Options: TimThumb is quite an enjoyable hobby for me. There are some more updates coming soon. I will be writing about the changes and new features on Binary Moon soon.
• Admin Customisation: This isn’t an essential feature, but I do think it’s a nice feature to have – in particular for sites where people other than you will be viewing the admin pages.

The list above showcases some of the features, but not all of them. There have been hundreds of tweaks and improvements, some more of which will be explained later.

Mimbo Pro 2

In all the excitement Mimbo Pro hasn’t been forgotten about. There have been a handful of small fixes and improvements along with the more exciting addition of custom menu integration.

Accumulo

Accumulo has had quite a lot of love sent it’s way. There have been a handful of bug fixes, and a lot of work on improving the caching and page load speeds, including a WordPress cron job that updates the feeds once a day to make sure you are always up to date.

Note that this updates ticks off 2 of the 3 ‘coming soons’ on our latest post.

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